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Samsung Giorgio Armani phone is a truly compact touchscreen phone. It doesn’t have the ease-of-use of Apple’s iPhone nor the high-end features of the LG Viewty touchphone, but it looks amazing. If you can get used to the touchscreen interface, you’ll find that it’s a beautiful phone that can also take photos, record video clips and play music

Samsung Giorgio Armani. Samsung plus Armani is such a fantastic combination, that success is guaranteed, right? Well not necessarily, because a lot has changed since the Prada phone of 2007 - the Armani now has to complete with the iPhone and the LG Viewty. Let’s put the phone through its paces and see how it shapes up to the competition.

n the last few years we’ve seen the mobile phone manufacturers cooperate with other companies to deliver higher quality technology, design or features, and such examples include brands like Carl Zeiss (lens manufacturer), Google (software) and in the 2007 – Prada and Armani (fashion brands). The latter is what we have here – a cooperation between Samsung and Armani resulting in the GIORGIO ARMANI phone which clearly comes as a rival of the PRADA by LG.

Armani handset has been equipped with a 3.15 Megapixel digital camera featuring a LED flash and a 4x digital zoom. In well-lit situations this camera captures sharp, bright pictures. On the computer screen, the red tones are a tad too present at times. Thanks to the mobile phone’s large TFT screen you can focus on many details while shooting, which gives a good overview of the final result. The camera’s basic settings such as white balance, resolution, effects and frames can be adjusted through the quick menu. In the main screen, you can directly activate or deactivate the flash and self-timer.

Key features:
* Stylish looks and high-quality build
* Small dimensions and compact “card” form factor
* 2.6″ touchscreen TFT display with QVGA resolution
* Vibrating haptic response
* microSD memory card slot
* Stereo Bluetooth
* 3 megapixel camera
* Office documents viewer
* Rich retail accessories

Samsung Armani Reviews From mobilechoiceuk

Pros: The Samsung Armani achieves what it set out to do, a simply glorious looking handset.
Cons: Relying on GPRS and EDGE connections to surf the net requires a degree of patience.
Look and Feel 5/5
Ease of use 3/5
Features     3/5
Performance 4/5
Battery life 3/5

Samsung Armani Reviews From cnet

The good: The Samsung Armani is a compact touch-screen phone with tons of style, plus it comes with a megapixel camera and a nice music player. There’s also haptic feedback, which provides tactile confirmation in the form of tiny vibrations.

The bad: The Armani’s touch screen doesn’t always respond appropriately, and photo quality was not as good as we thought it would be.

The bottom line: The Samsung Armani is one supersexy phone but it falls short of perfection due to lackluster features and a tricky user interface.

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