The coolest things for the coolest phones
Bad news, UK denim fans. You’ll have to hop on a Eurostar if you want to get hold of the new Levi Strauss slider phone. It’s due on sale this month, but only in France, where Orange has signed an exclusive for it.
It’s a 3G handset with Bluetooth, MP3-playing capabilities, a microSD card slot and a two-megapixel camera. The Levi branding is strong too, with the logo engraved on the back.
(via MobileBurn)
Mobile phones with some high-profile, non-mobile branding seems to be all the rage with manufacturers and retailers at the moment, what with Samsung’s Armani phone, and Carphone’s Ted Baker and phones. Now Motorola’s got in on the act with its new Ferrari phone.
While most deals like this feature new or original handsets, Motorola’s gone for the easy option and basically slapped a Ferrari badge on a reasonably-old handset, the Z8 RIZR.
To be fair, the Z8 isn’t actually that bad a phone but this new limited edition isn’t exactly going to set the world alight. As well as a Ferrari logo plastered on the side, the Moto Z8 Ferrari Limited Edition, comes with two pre-loaded Ferrari videos, registration to the official Ferrari website, custom Ferrari wallpapers and ringtones and direct internet links to magazines like Top Gear, Auto Express, GQ, Esquire and Autosport. And like the standard Z8 release, you also get a bundled copy of The Bourne Identity movie.
Sadly, this won’t even be out in time for Christmas either, as it’s not going to be out until early next year from Ferrari and Motorola’s main retailers. Oh well…
Watchmaker TAG Heuer is the latest company to sign up with French design house Modelabs for a series of luxury branded mobiles.
TAG Heuer follows in the footsteps of companies like Hummer and Levi Strauss, in agreeing for phones to be made using its name by Modelabs.
No word on what the phone will look like (will it be a watch phone?), nor which celebrity (or celebrities) including Tiger Woods and Lewis Hamilton will be used to tout the handsets, but no doubt TAG Heuer will want to use them.
The first TAG Heuer will be released near the end of next year, so it seems there’s a long way to go before we see the first one.
[Via Reuters]
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