In an exciting peanut-butter-in-my-chocolate development, Samsung has announced its plans to manufacture new products jointly designed with famed fashion magnate Giorgio Armani (of course, we knew
this was coming). According to reports, Giorgio and the company are teaming up for the development of a "luxury" mobile phone, as well as a "luxury" LCD television, both of which are rumored to be extremely "luxurious." The
phone (which we first heard about in July) will make its first "official" appearance at an Armani fashion show in Milan, Italy, while the television will rear its gorgeous head sometime in January. "This powerful partnership will match great design with leading technology to ensure performance is as impressive as appearance," said Yun Jong-Yong, vice chairman of Samsung. Could this be the company's answer to LG's
Prada mash-up? We think yes.
posted Sep 23rd 2007 4:14PM
Let the marathon of iPhone knockoffs begin!!!!
You mean Prada knockoffs of course, you know, like the iPhone, Samsung etc...
For me it's just another expensive-phone-because-has-a-fashion-brand...
Sorry if my english is not correct... Still learning...
you know funny thing is ... apples i phone is itself "just another expensive-phone-because-has-a-fashion-brand..." in fact pin that on everything apple made ... people who digg armani will like this thing just like apple fans.
i'm not saying theres anything abd about it.. its just so
These phones don't add anything specs-wise. It's just looks and image. There are people who are willing to pay for that, but it's not my cup of tea.
I hope this designer electronics thing doesnt become too widespread.Its a bit silly if you ask me.
so pop singers are producing perfume and clothing lines, and clothing producers are now into tech producers...
is anyone else somewhat confused/scared or is this just evolution?
a case "designed by armani" isnt making the software any better...
Bad tan, bad surgery, nice clothes = wealthy guy
Anyone notice how Georgio looks a lil bit like David Bowie's skeleton?
To me this is long over due. I always thought computer manufactures would team up with fashion designers when Sony jump into the Laptop/Desktop market! Sony has nice cosmetics but what did they know about building complete PC's/laptops? From their I sworn that IBM, Dell, Compaq, etc... would team up with fashion designers and start pumping out some awesome PC designs with a very expensive price tags if you wanted to get that Design name on it! Well, it never really took of though.
Now here's Samsung and LG(phones), Acer(Ferrari). Perhaps an electronics/fashion trend will start?
Okay, here's the deal, being a good fashion designer doesn't qualify you to be a good gadget designer. For one, functionality in gadgets gotta come first - see the new iMac for a bad keyboard design. Furthermore, how can you honestly design a good phone if you know nothing about usability - this isn't something a person just takes out and displays it, they actually use them.
If electronics companies want to team up with good designers for luxury gadgets they should go to car, or at least, furniture designers.
Yeah. There are industrial designers for that job. Let them do the job. I do wonder if Armani has anything to do with this phone other than allowing Samsung to print his name on it. At least with the B&O phone from Samsung you could see that it's from B&O.
After years of fake watches, t-shirts, jeans and handbags available in Thailand, Bali and Hong Kong, now we can look forward to fake Vercace and Tommy Hilfiger mobile phones.
To go along with your faux iPod, of course.
replace "luxury" with "extremely expensive" so that it will describe the product better.
Imagine how much an iPhone Gucci will cost.
Could someone please photoshop the creepy old guy out of that photo? I wanna gaze at the models.
This was actually going to be a really nice phone before the price got jacked up because the Armani name is attached to it. Unfortunate.
that's what they want...! they know that there are always some people who are willing to pay that price to get that product... skimming the market.. isn't it?