Mobiado Information

Founded in Vancouver in 2004, Mobiado creates precision objects defined by exceptional materials and Engineering Art. Mobiado became known for applying advanced materials and manufacturing to mobile phones in ways the category had not seen before. Its work has included CNC-machined aircraft aluminum, exotic woods, sapphire crystal, mechanical watch movements, mother of pearl, meteorite, Mokume Gane, Verre Églomisé, stone-hybrid materials, Super-LumiNova, and m|Carbon™. Selected milestones include: • 2004 — The Professional: the first CNC-machined phone made from aircraft aluminum. • 2005 — The Professional EM: the first phone made with exotic wood. • 2007 — The Luminoso: the first luxury phone with sapphire crystal buttons and the first 3G luxury phone. • 2008 — The Professional 105ZAF: the first phone with an entire sapphire-crystal front and back. • 2008 — The 105GMT: the first mechanical watch phone. • 2009 — The Grand 350PRL: the first 3.5G full-keyboard luxury phone and the first phone to use mother of pearl. • 2009 — The Grand 350 Pioneer: the first phone to use meteorite. • 2010 — The Classic 712MG: the first phone made from Mokume Gane. • 2012 — The Grand Touch Executive: the first phone made from a stone-hybrid material and the first to use a SIM-card movement mechanism. • 2015 — The PRO3 ML: the first luminous phone to use Super-LumiNova. • 2021 — The FORMA SPORT: the first phone to use m|Carbon™, a thin-ply carbon composite compressed with polymer under controlled heat and pressure.