This is not the typical sleek and sexy handset that makes the round in fashion circles. The Samsung B7620 Giorgio Armani is a violation of everything we hold dear in a fashion phone. It’s large, it’s heavy, it’s powerful and it’s brainy. Samsung and Armani enters its third collaborative effort to bring out what can be considered the world’s largest and most powerful fashion phone ever. Its target audience might be closer to the affluent and successful corporate tykes, but for sure, its price and heft won’t be embraced by the young hip crowd anytime soon.
Powerful Features
This is essentially the B7610 Omnia Pro dressed in a louder and bolder body color – GOLD or Bronze, depending on lighting conditions. Samsung made sure its new Armani smartphone is not only powerful inside, but has a commanding presence as well. Apart from a new outfit, the Samsung B7620 Giorgio Armani improves on the Omnia Pro with a tilting display when fully slid out for a more ergonomic typing on its tactile keyboard and more comfortably viewing of its 3.5” WVGA touchscreen display that uses the same AMOLED technology. There’s a more generous 8GB of internal memory and a 5-megapixel autofocus camera where the Omnia only has 1 Gb and 3 megapixel camera.
Corporate users will be familiar with its look and feel as the Windows Mobile 6.5 platform gives it desktop like multitasking features as well as application support to view MS Office files, full internet browsing form its latest Opera browser and push email features common in Blackberry handsets. Hardware-wise, it’s a quad band GSM and a tri band WCDMA on 3G with HSDPA for surfing download speeds of up to 7.2Mbps and HSUPA upload speeds of up to 5.76Mbps. WiFi 802.11 b/g is supported for surfing in hotspots anywhere in the country.
Availability
The Samsung B7620 Giorgio Armani should be released in the UK, Germany, Italy the Netherlands, Russia, China, and the UAE in time for holidays with the SIM-free street price of about €700 or equivalent. This effectively puts it above the reach of most people. That’s quite understandable as most people can’t afford an Armani suit.
