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iPhone 3GS Oleophobic Coating Wearing?

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Engadget Mobile has posted a link to a forum in which an individual claims to have issues with the oleophobic coating on his iPhone 3GS wearing off.

Is it possible? Sure, anything is possible. Is it likely this will happen to you? Highly unlikely. There could be a few explanations here: could be a simple [...]

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Bill Nye the iPhone Oleophobic Coating Guy

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Gizmodo earns geek cred elite by getting the one and only (unless he’s figured out how to clone himself) Bill Nye, the Science Guy, to explain just how the iPhone 3GS’ oleophobic coating works — molecularly — to reduce smudges and make it super easy to wipe clean.

We don’t understand a word of it, of [...]

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iPhone 3G S has Oleophobic Oil-Resistant Screen Coating

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MacDailyNews (via Daring Fireball) discovered that Apple has indeed given the new iPhone 3G S a small bump in screen specs. No, not OLED or pixel density, but according to their iPhone Cleaning How To:

If your iPhone has an oleophobic coating on the screen (iPhone 3G S only), simply wipe your iPhone’s screen [...]

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