Tonino Lamborghini’s Evoluzione runs Android, shares little with an actual Lamborghini
If you're looking for something a little smarter than Tonino Lamborghini's Spyder series of luxury phones (and we mean "smarter" in the operating system sense, not the wisdom of purchasing such a device), look no further than the Evoluzione. This puppy runs Android 2.1 (Froyo might be available in the future), but falls well short of its automotive namesake by sticking with a middling HVGA display of 3.2 inches and a 600MHz processor.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: engadget-mobile, entry, evoluzione, lamborghini, luxury, luxury-phones, mobile, namesake, primo mobile, primomobile, puppy, spyder, tonino lamborghini, toninolamborghini
Mobiado’s 712 Mokume Gane: because your Galaxy S lacks ancient Japanese metallurgical craftsmanship
Is there any way to sensibly justify Mobiado's colossally overpriced, underspec'd handsets? Not as far as we can tell -- but Mobiado seems to be eminently aware of (and okay with) that, diving yet deeper into the bottomless pit of conspicuous consumption this week with the announcement of the 712 Mokume Gane candybar. What's "Mokume Gane" mean, you ask
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 712, answer, bankruptcy, bottomless, engadget, engadget-mobile, entry, galaxy, Grain, japanese, luxury, models, mokume, weapons
Lenovo teases S800 phone with translucent color display, won’t let anyone touch it
Step aside, Sony Ericsson, your Xperia Pureness has been beaten at its own game by an enigmatic new handset that Lenovo has been showing off over in China.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: above-images, beaten-at-its, color, concept, entry, event, featurephone, glass, luxury, phones, piece, seethrough, sony
Vertu Constellation Quest ‘coming soon,’ finally puts QWERTY in your Hermès handbag
What's been missing from Vertu's lineup so far? Okay, yes, a touchscreen model -- touch
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: christie, constellation, engadget, keyboard, luxury, pretty-obvious, Teaser, texting
Gresso’s Las Vegas Jackpot phone costs a million dollars, seriously
When you make it your business to deliver outlandish new looks for mobile telephony, it can sometimes be a challenge to just outdo your last effort. So Gresso 's decided the only way forward is to collect all the fine materials it had lying around -- black diamonds, pure gold, diamond-cut sapphire crystals, and 200-year old African blackwood -- sprinkle them atop an otherwise nondescript featurephone, and slap on the spectacular price tag of $1,000,000.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: attention, black-diamonds, blackdiamonds, blackwood, diamond, diamonds, gold, jackpot, laser engraving, lasvegas, luxury, mundanely-rich, result, vegas
iPhone 4 Diamond Edition: white, unlocked, and $20k
Looking for something a bit more eye-catching than a iPhone 4 with a wooden veneer ? Then it looks like you can once again thank Stuart Hughes for throwing any subtlety to the wind and going all out with the so-called iPhone 4 Diamond Edition.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, diamond edition, entry, iphone 4, iphone 4 diamond edition, luxury, smattering, spent-either, stuart hughes, subtlety, then-it-looks, wooden-veneer
Vertu Ascent 2010: same pretension, new specs
Vertu's not big on press releases, so you'll have to forgive us for missing this a few weeks back -- but it seems that Nokia's little outpost of opulent, over-the-top luxury has just released an updated version of its time-tested Ascent range. The so-called Ascent 2010 features a 5 megapixel camera (up from the Ascent Ti's 3), 8GB or 32GB of on-board storage depending on the version (up from 4GB), and quadband 3G. It also has AGPS with preloaded maps (Vertu's carefully avoiding the plebian Ovi Maps branding here, but we'd imagine it's more or less the same thing), a 2-inch QVGA sapphire crystal display, and a sweet chronograph display (pictured) that undoubtedly makes the phone worth every one of the thousands of dollars you shell out for it
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: accents, Chronograph, colored, crystal, luxury, megapixel, nokia, releases, retailers, same-pretension
Vertu Ascent X dazzles FCC with its expert craftsmanship, supple leather
We don't really know the fully story behind this new certification just yet, but it's not every day that Vertu -- Nokia's ultra-luxury brand -- passes a device through the FCC, so we figured we'd broadcast the exciting news anyhow. Other than a line art shot of the back and a few particularly sparse lab documents, your guess is as good as ours, but there's one bit in the RF test results that reads right out of a Tourneau brochure: "The Vertu Model: Ascent X, FCC ID: P7QRM-589V is a mobile phone in the Luxuary [sic] category.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: ascent x design, ascentx, device-through, eas, entry, fcc, good-as-ours, luxury, Metal, mobile, phone, vertu
Canada’s WIND Mobile making a play for more cash to expand
There's a good deal of excitement about the value that Canada's WIND Mobile is bringing to the table -- that's the luxury of being the scrappy startup with new spectrum in a market dominated by the Old Guard -- but the big problem, of course, is that WIND's native footprint currently covers just Toronto and Calgary. The carrier's backed by Orascom on the strength of a $700 million loan that it says still gives it "ample runway" with upcoming launches in Ottawa, Edmonton, and Vancouver, but to really go big, it's looking to raise some capital from banks right now to grow its network and "develop partnerships" that enable it to reduce or eliminate an estimated $200 to $300 million deficit over the next four years
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: banks, buzz, cross-the-line, engadget, entry, launches, legit-contender, luxury, orascom, scrappy-startup, toronto, vancouver, windmobile, world
Xperia Pureness available now – includes concierge service, avarice
Great news for the disposable income crowd: The Sony Ericsson Xperia Pureness is finally available online through Saks Fifth Avenue -- and it can be yours for a mere $990. According to some seriously high-minded PR, the sleek and feature-poor handset "represents an alternative approach to life in the complex, digital age by refining the mobile phone to its most essentials functions." You see, this bad boy "is not simply about a phone; it is about opening a debate about people's relationship with technology in a complex world." Got that? In case you're still not sold, did we mention that the purchase price includes a concierge service?
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nintendo, Other Tags: concierge, ericsson, expensive gifts, expensivegifts, google-phone, luxury, mobile, Mobile Phone, pureness, saksfifthavenue, sony-ericsson, sonyericsson, xperia, xperia pureness, xperiapureness