Fashion fans, rejoice. Your two favorite labels have finally come together:
Giorgio Armani... and Windows Mobile. Today in Milan, Armani's empire unveiled a new, €700 (or about $1030) smartphone built by Samsung, running Microsoft's latest 6.5 OS iteration. The device -- featuring a full touchscreen and slide-out, landscape QWERTY keyboard -- touts a 3.5-inch AMOLED display, a 5 megapixel camera, 8GB of internal storage, GPS chip, and microSD slot. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who spoke at the launch, says the device is "the most fashionable phone [he's] ever had a chance to talk about." We won't lie, there is something weirdly appealing about the bronze and black smartphone, though we don't see ourselves shelling out that kind of dough on this particular model. Oh, not because we don't want to, but it doesn't go with our shoes. Check out a couple of videos from the launch after the break, including a short clip with Ballmer.
posted Oct 9th 2009 9:44AM
Why....
You obviously don't have a pair of golden shoes either...
All the people complaining about the price have got the wrong address, This is GIORGIO baby!!!
I'm gonna get two, one for my dog as well.
Life's good again
I honestly don't know, maybe it's for the people who buy Vertu's, but realise they want something useful, but just can't find that ammount of hideousness in regular phones...
Oh, and PhoneArena's got it's preview up:
[url]http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Samsung-Giorgio-Armani-Preview-review-r_2187.html[/url]
They actually seem pretty positive about the device...
I would go for the DuPont phone "http://www.thepinhead.com/Blog/?p=530"
We have the same reaction too, anyway I guess Mr. Ballmer keeps surprising us and we love it. especially the days when he used to have that very high sense of humor. You gotta love his halloween pics.
Hilarity link: http://pinoytutorial.com/bestandworst/steve-ballmer-wears-a-halloween-costume
"just for laughs" -- Laughter is the best medicine indeed
looks like the N97
but bit uglier.
thick piece of golden trimmed dung
Sexy looking but too bad Winmobile sucks so badly
If this handset had Winmobile that may be a different story
>Sexy looking but too bad Winmobile sucks so badly
>If this handset had Winmobile that may be a different story
wait wut?
LOL
UPRANKED, because I was so confused by your comment I didn't know which way to rank you.
LogicFail™
What's the opposite of circular logic?
Linear logic?
I would argue he isn't using logic, period. Contradictions != logical.
You will be paying around $200 extra for just for the Armani logo.....
To me, it looks like the Touch Pro 2 from T-Mobile.
What are the specs of this bad boy? Any Snapdragon or Tegra goodness?
I think I read somewhere that this phone is going retro (its fashionable) and is sporting a 200mhz pentium chip with MMX technology...
I am a Windows Supporter to the core, but Windows Mobile and Fashion are an oxymoron. Maybe Windows 7 will bring us something really good looking. I am not afraid to acknowledge I am a fashion-deaf geek !!
Sorry, I am not into the metrohomosexual stuff.... I need big pockets for my phones !
Microsoft did a really good job with Windows 7, but they really don't know how to make a good mobile OS. I have used a couple of phones with WinMobile 6 and it is abysmal. It freezes all of the time and has a crappy browser. What exactly do you like about it?
That just looks awful. I hope I'm not the only one that thinks that.
The word "Gaudy" came to mind
NICE! Can't wait to show this off at the Klubs with my gold chains!
Yes - lovely and you want to show if off so badly that you don't use a case ... and then you drop it.
Game over.
""500 dollars for a phone, fully subsidized? That is the most expensive phone in the world!"" -- Steve Balmer, 2007
Only this price isn't subsidised yet, besides, the iPhone costs about 700 euros too here in Europe, unlocked.
But still, this phone just isn't worth it, a crappy Samsung UI and lousy performance? No thanks.
(And yes, I know it probably uses an 800MHz processor like the Omnia QWERTY (/Pro, whatever you call it), but have you seen those? Nothing but lag, if I want a phone with a keyboard I'll just go with the Pro2 or N900...)
Anybody remember Vertu's phones price?
Or just wait a week and dealextreme.com will have a complete ripoff, for about $127.41.
:P
LOL steve ballmer is sooooo ridicoulous when he speak :)
btw stylish (and surely budget...) device
shame that winmo it's not my preferred mobile os.
bye
Blimey. 'Steve Ballmer' and 'fashion' in the same sentance. I've seen it all now...
No you haven't. Wait untill you see Steve Jobs and fashion put together.
You don't think that black sweater and jeans look is fashionable?
aww come on, give balmer a break! :D i have to agree tho, balmer certainly doesn't seem like a fashionista. he shoulda shaved that little strip of hair and gave his dome some extra buff...oh and rock a soul patch. ballmer metro style.
It'll still be shitty with Windows Mobile 6.5. Amirite?
You sure aren't, sport.
so what's the consensus on winmo6.5, still the same old junk? i've used my Q for 3 years with winmo5...and it's been an admittedly horrible run...more like some broken hacked modded xbox dashboard then an actual finished product. even windows 3.1 felt more coherent and smooth. the worst part of it is that unlike a computer, you can't just go to microsoft update and get updates...or even purchase and load the newest OS.
i'm a long time apple dork, but use windows primarily. i'm already on the 7 bandwagon, and it's MS's best effort yet. It gives me hope that the company may someday make a stylish AND functional OS for mobile phones.
I'd rather get an HD2 or an iphone.
ahhh no thanks! i'll stick with my iPhone. 99% people dont even notice what phone you use unless its an iPhone :))
Hey - I just noticed what a twat you are!?
Kid, it is nothing about what people notice. Nowadays all people are having smart phone. But most of them dont know where to find the 'Tools' to change the phone theme. Come on man, is it that iPhone make you talk like this. Be kewl son!
you choose your phone according to how many people will notice it?
People DO notice my iPhone which is accompanied by "Hmm, do you have an alternative phone number?"
@ htown
Im embarrassed now that i reside in the same state as you.
SP
Yeah, sort of like 99% of everyone ranking your post noticed how big a bouche you are. Niiice...
Come on gimme a break! Make useful phone.
I must say that I like the look of the phone and unlike the Samsung Omnia Pro, it's screen can tilt like the the HTC touch pro 2 and the keyboard looks cool too.
But the price is crazy. You can almost get 2 Samsung Omnia Pro's the that amount.
And what's up with that Golden Eye song. Sony Ericsson are the only phones you will see in a James Bond movie.
samsung stole htc's design?
HTC's phone has 5 rows of keys, not 4 like this...
HTC touch pro 2 and HTC TyTn 2 crossover, I suppose.
Ballmer clearly hasn't used an E71
Windows Mobile favorite label of whom? There must be at least 23 people out there that must feel that way. 24 if you count Ballmer.
Nice phone. I have one. It's called the AT&T Tilt, aka the HTC Kaiser. Similar specs, same tilting lcd, one quarter the price, and it's been out for years. yay, good job armani.
OMG, a BUDGET Phone, one have to Budget for it ! LOL !!!
you know what... at the end of the day, it is still yet another Windows Mobile powered device. and.... probably stinks. i'll stick to my Blackberry and iPhone.
OMFG!
Steve Ballmer is hailing this fashion phone as a triumph of tech?!
What a fat fuck! Did he or didn't he say the iphone was the most expensive phone on the market and no one would use it cause it ain't got no damn keyboard. Now a few years later that troll is fist thumping some damn Armani(LOGO) phone at over a grand. Who playing in the RDF now.
Does it rum Windows Mobile 6.5 Signature Edition?
It's good to be a white metrosexual. I have got to get me one of these. I'll even put the iPhone phanbois to shame. And it's so reasonably priced that I think I'll get two. Too bad it's powered by MicroShyte WinMoan.
Armani makes my colonge Aqua Di Gio but that's as far as I'll go with the brand.. well a suit would be nice but I'm not made of money.
How is a dull bronze side lining more gaudy than a shiny steel side lining in the fruit phone??
It is when you're an applefanboy. I personally like the bronze/black look. It's pretty cool.
what the F do I need a Giorgio Armani phone for. Does GA make phones? No, they make clothes. So enough with this snob appeal bull crap. I will take one of them nicely tailored 3 months rent worth suits though.
That's a nice looking phone. Not a thousand dollars nice but still nice.
Why does Engadget make low and lowest ranked comments unreadable?
Steve Ballmer says the device is "the most fashionable phone [he's] ever had a chance to talk about."
Correction..
Uncle Fester, Steaming Mad about iPhone Announcement,2007:
"The iPhone will NOT GET ANY APPRECIABLE marketshare whatsoever...........Now the iPhone may sell very well, we don't know..."
Where can we order one? Looks nice.
Strange that with all the technology available to Mr. Ballmer, he still has to read his notes from paper!
Maybe he really, really needs an HTC D2 with it's wonderfully huge screen.
The day I get an Armani suit is the day I will have the matching phone
This is actually surprisingly good. $1050 is a lot, but Touch Pro 2's unsubsidized run $600-700 in many markets, so it isn't ridiculous, and this is no Vertu. It's a fully featured smartphone, and no one else offers a big, tilting AMOLED screen. WinMo is the problem, but it's only a problem to some.
Downvoted for using "M$". That hasn't been clever since '97.
uhm im never going to pay a grand for a phone.
btw i heard about 3 iphone noises throughout the second video haha.
Looks completely like N97 !!!!!