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IT AIN’T HEAVY, IT’S MY BLOWER

The clue’s in the name of this eye-catching Android that won’t weigh you down

Weighing in

There are two very good reasons carbon fibre is often used in racing bikes and high-performance car parts: it’s very light and very strong. That also makes it ideal for something you carry around all day and occasionally drop on hard floors, don’t you think? Carbon Mobile’s Carbon 1 Mark II is the first phone to be made from the stuff (the Mark I never went on general sale) – and at 6.3mm thin and 125g, it’s 1.8mm slimmer and 63g lighter than an iPhone 11 Pro.

Powering up

Holding a phone that light might make you think it’s been pumped full of coriander instead of the necessary bits of silicon; but while the Mark II isn’t going to worry Android 10 flagships from

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