Carbon fiber products in future Samsung products?
Samsung has a good reputation in good plastic products. Today Samsung joins the SGL Group “The Carbon Company” for about 50%. This could hint future products based on carbon fiber material. Carbon Fiber is ultra light, easy to mold into just about any shape you want and very strong. It sounds great as we all know Samsung likes plastic cause of the weight of their mobile devices. Samsung also said that their materials must be easy to develop in huge amounts cause they sell millions of devices. All in all this could mean Samsung dumps metal as material choise and goes straight ahead with carbon fiber instead of polycarbonate (plastic).
Read the quote of Yoosung Chung, President and CEO of Samsung Petrochemical
“Our long-term cooperation with SGL Group will ensure the exclusive supply of carbon fiber composite materials to Samsung. We selected SGL Group as partner due to the company’s unique expertise along the entire value chain from carbon fibers to CFRP components. Lightweight materials have become an important factor not only in industrial applications but also the consumer end markets such as digital media. This partnership will position Samsung as a leading player in the development and application of carbon fiber-based products.”
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Nooo way. I love carbon fiber. I’ll love to her a phone made of it. Can’t wait for it Sammy!!!!
It amuses me when people whine about Samsungs polycarbonate, plastic, cheap, crappy, flimsy, inferior case. Most people I know irrespective of what phone they have purchase a case! Why? To protect it! If you dont like Samsung…. buy yourself an iphone, look in the mirror and hate youself!
Great but one problem, Carbonfibre overheats..
Oh yeah, forgot about this but carbon fibre is very pricey!!!
Don’t rip us off Samsung. Stick with aluminium instead.
Man, people want premium feeling and “We aim to please”, don’t we?
Don’t know how they’re going to pull this off for next years Galaxy line up.
Also carbon-fibre tends to break more easily than plastic…Durability is not good at all.
Wait a minute. So you are saying carbon-fibre is weaker,more fragile and not durable?
So what is good for????
You don’t know much about it?
These problems surely would have been taken into account, don’t you think?
I mean working on its advantages and trying to fix the issues, isn’t this what innovation is all about?
Yes but they have to keep the prices down for it since carbonfiber is very expensive to manufacture.
I just hope that they won’t release products half finished if you get what I mean. For example: some of the Air gestures, they work, sure. But not perfectly, so the user experience is still not optimal.
Wait for it….. Waiting…. Apple to sue Samsung for using Carbon Fiber because Apple “thought” about using it first 3 years from now.
Apple to patent a way for Carbon Fiber to be “molded” into a rounded corner shape. Next on the list, Apple to sue the Farm industry for selling apples. Pending Lawusit against Mcintosh Apples of Canada.
Please don’t brainwash users like this, owners of this page: “AS WE ALL KNOW Samsung likes plastic cause of the weight of their mobile devices.”.
The truth is:
“as we all know Samsung likes plastic cause of its cheapness in the end production of their mobile devices.”.
Once again, I shall state this very clearly DannyD or whoever wrote this, DO NOT BRAINWASH people. At least not this visibly (lol)…
While what you said may be true, you can’t say what Danny wrote is wrong… Plastic does make a phone lighter, I mean obviously right?
That is of course true, but SamMobile is going with Samsung’s explanations, which are only covering the truth.
Buy Xperia™ Z Ultra – 6.4” Full HD and be happy.
Dude, shut up.
Covering the truth? What truth?
Policarbonate is better and lighter.
You are brainwashing yourself.
Currently, is there any phone that really works underwater, like allowing you to listen to music?
@Planet, the post of 15:57
Would you really want to use your phone under water? I mean would you often end up in such situations?
As I said, some people would always use a case (+ a screen film) for fear of scratching the phone, so the exterior design wouldn’t be a deal-breaker for them. Besides, the GS4 itself isn’t a bad looking phone imo, it surely lacks the premium feeling tho.
However, what’s inside is definitely premium, and I think that’s what most people like because if you buy a phone only for its exterior design, don’t buy a smartphone, buy a toy.
I think the move on Carbon fiber should cause a stir if it really were to be used on the next flagship phones.
CFRP will be great!! I definetly would get a phone made of this 🙂