World’s first carbon-fiber smartphone is ‘lighter than a bag of Doritos’ - Yanko Design

The term 'Carbon Fiber Monocoque' was, upwardly until now, reserved mainly for automobiles and aeronautics. With the Carbon 1 Mk Ⅱ, that term now sees itself being used in the world of smartphones too. The material isn't entirely new to smartphones. Makers and manufacturers take oftentimes used small amounts and trims of carbon-fiber in smartphones (mainly as a marketing feature), non just because it'due south much more expensive than aluminum, just as well considering of its power to block radio waves. Germany-based startup Carbon Mobile, however, has figured out a way to make a telephone with the unabridged body crafted out of a single piece of carbon fiber.

The Carbon 1 Mk Ⅱ uses a monocoque design – which means the phone'southward external trunk besides comes with integrated supports on the inside, increasing its overall strength while reducing the number of parts needed to make the phone robust. This helps bring the Carbon 1 Mk Ⅱ's weight down to a ridiculous 125 grams (a purse of Doritos weighs 150 grams), proving that virtually of a smartphone's weight lies in its use of dumbo materials like metal and glass. While the carbon-cobweb does drastically bring the weight of the phone down, it does enhance the question regarding carbon cobweb'southward ability to block radio waves. To avoid this trouble, the startup spent four years developing a new kind of carbon composite chosen HyRECM (Hybrid Radio Enabled Composite Material). Woven correct into the carbon fibers is a special composite material that allows radio waves to pass through, giving the Carbon one Mk Ⅱ 4G LTE capabilities, along with WiFi v, Bluetooth v.0, and NFC capabilities.

Its lightweight structure is reinforced by the fact that the Carbon i Mk Ⅱ is just half-dozen.3mm in thickness. On the front end, the telephone comes with a sprawling 6-inch brandish (it does have bezels, still) and a 20MP camera, and on the dorsum, a dual-camera setup gives your images clarity and depth, although don't expect it to lucifer up to a flagship telephone like the iPhone 12 Pro. The phone runs Android 11 (equally of Q2), and comes powered by a MEDIATEK P90 Octa-Core chip, with 8GB of RAM, 256GB internal storage, and a neat 3000mAh battery. Given how slim the phone is, information technology obviously doesn't come up with a headphone jack, although there is a fingerprint scanner built right into the edge of the telephone, right below the volume push. The Carbon 1 Mk Ⅱ is up for pre-order with a relatively steep price of €799 ($952), although at that price, you're pretty much paying for the world'due south commencement carbon-fiber smartphone that'll never ever succumb to #bendgate !!

Designer: Carbon Mobile