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Apple's iPhone 6 is well on the way. Set to be announced at the Flint Center on Apple's Cupertino campus in just 12 days' time, we now know quite a bit about the forthcoming handset. For example, we're aware that it will pack a vastly improved (albeit still dual-core) A8 processor and Near-Field Communication (or NFC) - something that Apple has stood back and allowed Android / Windows Phone vendors to indulge in unchallenged. A new leak today offers some high-quality snaps purported to depict the iPhone 6's logic board, and therein, we get a glimpse of the new A8 SoC as well as the NFC component.

It’s become official now that the new iPhone 6 is finally coming on September 9th - something that has been in the rumors for quite some time now. However, it’s absolutely certain now and has been certain even before, that no one would be getting even a sneak peak at the actual device until whatever it date it gets for the official unveiling. That never discouraged people from speculating what the device can look like through concept designs, and now, a luxury retailer has put together a bootable prototype of the iPhone 6 through several leaked parts. Yup, it does boot!

Sapphire Glass. It sounds so lovely, doesn't it? And for the past few months, it's been used to talk-up the impending iPhone 6. But while Apple will no doubt wax poetic about this material upon the launch of its next-gen smartphone, the only way to tell if it's more than just a gimmick is to see how it holds up against the current Gorilla Glass, and now, a video of the stress test that everyone's been waiting on has emerged.

For a while now, it has been suggested that Apple will strengthen the front panel of the upcoming iPhone 6 with sapphire glass, but while there have been conflicting reports indicating that only some variants of the impending handset would indulge, one analyst has come through with something a little more clarifying. Apparently, every single model of the 5.5-inch iPhone 6L will be laden in the clearer, more robust sapphire glass material, while only a portion of the 4.7-inch inventory will follow suit.