Sentences with phrase «on sapphire»

A scratch test with the emery sandpaper on the sapphire glass cover on the iPhone 5s Touch ID resulted in no scratches (sapphire is harder than emery).

Last week, while others were focused on SAPPHIRE [1] and Apple announcements, Blue Hill's humble legal tech analyst was inundated with eulogies and speculation regarding the end of NewLaw firm Clearspire.

Maybe if you put on sapphire shoes, click your heels together three times, and concentrate really, really, really, hard, you could conjure one up!

Most LEDs use GaN on a sapphire or silicon carbide substrate, but Soraa applies GaN onto a GaN substrate to produce a more uniform, brighter and cheaper light.

The graphics look spectacular on the Sapphire Radeon 7970 with its HD graphics and amazing attention to detail.

This is only on the Sapphire Field.

Chase has upped the signup bonus on its Sapphire Preferred credit card to 60,000 Ultimate Rewards points after spending $ 4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months.

These cheap airfares could also be covered in full by the annual travel credits on the Sapphire Reserve or Prestige cards.

There are many fine dining options for passengers to choose from on the Sapphire Princess.

Another area that needs improvement is the annual fee, since the $ 175 charge for Amex Premier Rewards Gold is not competitive when compared to fee on Sapphire Preferred ($ 95) and Arrival Plus ($ 89).

Some balcony staterooms have a rear - facing balcony for terrific ocean views as you enjoy your cruise on the Sapphire Princess.

@ Sam, I would definitely wait for the 50k offer on the Sapphire Preferred.

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In addition, UR points that are now on my Sapphire Reserve card can also be transferred to travel partners, where they can often be worth even more.

As you can see in the image below, they are worth much more when redeemed for travel on my Sapphire Reserve card, than they would be for cash back or gift cards.

That said, I'll still probably put most of my travel and dining spend on my Sapphire Reserve because I value Ultimate Rewards points at 2.2 cents — meaning I get 6.6 % back (toward travel per dollar spent).

I want all points on my Sapphire Reserve.

Very glad I used my limited apps with Chase on Sapphire Preferred, British Air, etc. rather than on the hotel chains that have all recently devalued!

For a limited time only Chase is offering 50K Ultimate Rewards points for spending $ 4K on the Sapphire Preferred card within 3 months plus 5K points for adding an additional user and making a purchase within 3 months.

For example, Private Clients might be offered a 65k bonus on the Sapphire Preferred instead of -LSB-...]

This offer can be gotten on the Sapphire, INK, or Freedom cards, but you'll want to use the Freedom card to get 10x points on the purchase under the new 10x promo.

You'll earn 2x or 3x the points on your Sapphire PLUS the points earned from the dining program.

For each point earned on Sapphire Preferred, Ink Bold or Ink Plus (which charge $ 95 annual fees) you can get one mile on those partner airlines.

For instance, on the Sapphire Preferred it is currently spend a cumulative $ 4,000 in the first 3 months.

Just this week Chase lowered their bonus on their Sapphire card from 50,000 down to 40,000 bonus points, that's if you apply for the card directly from their website.

For context, once you hit the minimum spend on the Sapphire Preferred, you'd only be 1,000 points short of having a roundtrip economy trip covered from Houston to London via United Airlines!

It's clear that they are trying to cut costs on the Sapphire product line and as much as I hate them saying you can't have a Chase Sapphire Reserve if you have a Preferred and vice versa, you can see why they did it.

It's clear that they are trying to cut costs on the Sapphire product...

However, if you never bothered with getting the Platinum Card that $ 2,777.60 on the Sapphire Reserve would net you 8,332 Ultimate Rewards, which at 2 cents per point would come out to $ 166.6.

The Platinum Card from American Express has a leg up on the Sapphire Reserve and Prestige when it comes to hotel benefits.

I went ahead and carved out $ 10,000 for the new IHG card by lowering the limit on my Sapphire Reserve.

The 24 - month rule is similar to their current rule, except it normally only applies for cards of the exact same type, i.e. if you received a signup bonus on the Sapphire Preferred, you were only prevented from getting the signup bonus on another Sapphire Preferred within 24 months of the date you received the bonus.

To earn the signup bonus on the Sapphire Reserve, for example, you must not have any Sapphire card open, and you must not have earned the signup bonus from any Sapphire card within the past 24 months.

While you can redeem Ultimate Reward points for cash back or merchandise, if you redeem them instead through the Ultimate Rewards travel portal, you're getting $ 750 worth of value from the signup bonus alone since points on the Sapphire Reserve are worth 1.5 cents each.

You will no longer be eligible for the signup bonus on any Sapphire product if you have received a signup bonus on any Sapphire product within the past 24 months.

If you're familiar with the way the restrictions worked on the Sapphire cards you might still be able to work around this restriction but there are also some applications floating around (here and here) that don't currently have this language.

But to be completely honest, I still struggle to put my flights on the Platinum Card given the Platinum's lack of trip interruption / delay protections that can be found on the Sapphire Reserve.

And if you purchased the points on a Sapphire Preferred you'd also earn 1,850 Ultimate Rewards on that purchase (worth $ 40).

So I'm very curious to see who is left standing after the next few months and what effect that will have on the Sapphire Reserve.

In addition, you must wait 24 months from the time of receiving a bonus on a Sapphire card in order to earn an additional bonus from another Sapphire card.

They also just dropped a very restrictive rule on Sapphire cards.

The airline fee credits are way more complicated to redeem than the simple $ 300 travel credit from Chase on the Sapphire Reserve card.

Rubyvale is situated 60 kilometres west of Emerald on the Sapphire Gemfields.

At a valuation of 1.5 cents per point, the minimum number of points required to recoup a $ 150 net annual fee (after the $ 300 travel credit on the Sapphire Reserve) is 10,000 UR.

I remarked that I currently have a $ 35,000 limit on the Sapphire Reserve which is paid off each month.

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On top of that, retention offers to offset the annual fee on Ink cards are much more common than on the Sapphire Preferred.

At 3X points on the Sapphire Reserve, your spend at Hilton properties is roughly the same with both cards.

If I spent 5 times that amount I would have $ 625 on Sapphire and 1000 on the Venture for same money spent.