{"id":3655,"date":"2016-12-20T00:39:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T00:39:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-12-20T00:39:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T00:39:08","slug":"dubai-designed-carbon-fiber-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/news\/dubai-designed-carbon-fiber-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"These Dubai Entrepreneurs Have Just Built A Smartphone And Are Looking To Take On Samsung and Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-adunit c-adunit--mpu\">\n<div id=\"mpu\" class=\"c-adunit__container\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0Carbon mobile is set to outclass the iPhone and the Samsung in spec, it was designed right here in the UAE and it was released at Gitex today.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;Carbon is unnaturally thin, dramatically light and the most surreal super\u00a0phone your hands can hold.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>Sounds amazing&#8230;and it looks like the hype is to be believed.\u00a0Today the creator behind the phone called\u00a0it the lightest, STRONGEST and thinnest smartphone ever &#8211; and it&#8217;s the first carbon fiber super phone in the world.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s taken one year and over 800 prototypes to come to the design they have today. High-stiffness composites are used to increase strength while decreasing weight and thickness.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-adunit c-adunit--mpu_mid\">\n<div id=\"mpu_mid\" class=\"c-adunit__container\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>How thin in comparison with other high-end smartphones?<\/h3>\n<p>4.5 mm&#8230;the Samsung S7 is 7.9\u00a0mm and the iPhone 7 is 7.1mm<\/p>\n<h3>How light?<\/h3>\n<p>107 g&#8230;the S7 is 152 g and the iPhone 7 is 138 grams<\/p>\n<h3>Kevlar is also used in the design&#8230;a material so resistant to impact that it can stop bullets<\/h3>\n<h4>Take a look at this for more info<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><\/p>\n<h3>How much will it cost you?<\/h3>\n<p>Word on the street is the mobile will cost approximately\u00a0$799 (just under AED 3,000). But we&#8217;ll get back to once we have a definite confirmation on that.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Carbon mobile is set to outclass the iPhone and the Samsung in spec, it was designed right here in the UAE and it was released at Gitex today. &#8220;Carbon is unnaturally thin, dramatically light and the most surreal super\u00a0phone your hands can hold.&#8221; Sounds amazing&#8230;and it looks like the hype is to be believed.\u00a0Today the &hellip; ","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"acf":{"legacy_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovindubai.com\/images\/uploads\/2016\/10\/_relatedEntryImage2x\/Screenshot-2016-10-16-at-5.03.49-PM.png?mtime=20161016170422","legacy_full_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovindubai.com\/images\/uploads\/2016\/10\/_featuredImage\/Screenshot-2016-10-16-at-5.03.49-PM.png?mtime=20161016170422 880w","legacy_meta_tags":"<title>These Dubai Entrepreneurs Have Just Built A Smartphone And Are Looking To Take On Samsung and Apple - Lovin Dubai<\/title><meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Carbon mobile is set to outclass the iPhone and the Samsung in spec, it was designed right here in the UAE and it was released at Gitex today..\">\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lovindubai.com\/news\/dubai-designed-carbon-fiber-phone\">\n<!-- <link rel=\"amphtml\" href=\"https:\/\/lovindubai.com\/news\/dubai-designed-carbon-fiber-phone\/amp\">\n --><meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"These Dubai Entrepreneurs Have Just Built A Smartphone And Are Looking To Take On Samsung and Apple\">\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\">\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/lovindubai.com\/news\/dubai-designed-carbon-fiber-phone\">\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\">\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cloud.lovindubai.com\/images\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screenshot-2016-10-16-at-5.03.49-PM.png?mtime=20161016170422\">\n<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1053\">\n<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"863\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"photo\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"lovindubai\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"These Dubai Entrepreneurs Have Just Built A Smartphone And Are Looking To Take On Samsung and Apple\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"caseyfitz4\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"    The Carbon mobile is set to outclass the iPhone and the Samsung in spec, it was designed right here in the UAE and it was released at Gitex today..\n\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:url\" content=\"https:\/\/lovindubai.com\/news\/dubai-designed-carbon-fiber-phone\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cloud.lovindubai.com\/images\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screenshot-2016-10-16-at-5.03.49-PM.png?mtime=20161016170422\">\n"},"image_feature":null,"author_name":"Casey Fitzgerald","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}