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BLU Amour phone comes with crystal home button, gender stereotypes
BLU Products: we like your value-packing smartphones, but we have to talk. Your just-shipped Amour is leaning a little too heavily on female stereotypes with its Swarovski zirconia home button, quilted back and luxury-themed take on Android 4.0. We'd rather you focus on the quite respectable budget phone inside. For $159, customers are getting a real bargain: there's a 4-inch WVGA screen, a dual-core MediaTek chip, dual SIMs with unlocked 3G, a 5MP rear camera and a front VGA shooter. That kind of bang for the buck can appeal to frugal buyers of all kinds, not just those replacing an HTC Rhyme.
Nokia's 5070 and 7088 for dudes and debutantes, respectively
The XpressMusic 5700 isn't Nokia's only new phone for the day. Our Finnish friends also unveiled their 5070 "fun and function" phone for the young'ns and 7088 L'Amour for you trust funders. The 5070 packs an FM radio and stereo headset with a focus on messaging and personalization for "today's socially networked mobile consumer." That, and a low price tag of just €100 when these drop in Q2. The L'Amour 7088 brings some feminine styling (read: pink) to a CMDA slider destined for faux-fur lovers who think that a 128 x 160 pixel display passes as "extra-large" -- hey, that's what the press release says. Expect the 7088 to hit select markets in Q2 as well.Read -- Nokia 5070Read -- Nokia 7088
