After unveiling it last week, Cult of the Mac has been actively digging out everything it can about Apple’s latest technology acquisition; Liquidmetal. This week, they claim that this crazy alloy that came from space to make your next iPhone bendable or god-knows-what (and might or might not help with the Antenna issue) has actually already been used by Apple.
Indeed, US iPhones ever since the 3G version apparently ship with what we could call a little Liquidmetal sample, the SIM ejector pin. Surprising right? Apparently, this was something of a test for Apple which was looking for some solid and inflexible alloy for their parts. As Liquidmetal technologies’ production facility was far from having the scale required by Apple. They only sourced there the SIM ejector pin at the time and still gave international iPhones the steel version.
This story is strange, but does sound plausible. Unfortunately, my pin is in steel. So go grab yours right now and try bending it. If you can’t without hurting yourself, then it’s liquidmetal.
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