It’s not often a mobile phone is a hot story in Women’s Wear Daily, but at the Milan Fashion Week, Italian designer Giorgio Armani has announced a mobile phone and other devices produced by South Korea’s Samsung.
It’s a tiny credit card-sized device with a touch-sensitive 2.6inch QVGA screen, 3 megapixel camera and Bluetooth.
“By adapting a haptical UI, users can feel an immediate mild vibration when they touch icons on the display. Being the size of a credit card and a mere 10.5 mm in thickness, the Giorgio Armani-Samsung Phone fits sensuously into a user’s palm.”
So says the press release.
It sounds like an interesting phone but the cross-industry deal is not really surprising. Samsung’s main rival, LG Electronics, has already combined with Prada, another Italian luxury goods designer, for a mobile phone.
Does anyone here own anything produced by Armani? I bet John doesn’t even own an Armani. A linux geek wouldn’t be caught dead with one of these.
A piece of crap that would break with in 30 days of paying a huge price for it but by then you would be on to the next trendy piece of crap.To much money and not enough brains.
Actually, my last pair of glasses were from Armani. Which were pretty much a standard wire frame type model. Although it’s not like anyone would notice unless they took them off my face and looked at the label.