Gresso presents Black Diamonds

Gresso presents Black Diamonds

Gresso has announced a couple of new additions to their Avantgarde series. Besides Luna and Sol models, the series crafted from a mix of precious and rare materials will now be joined by the Black Diamonds collection. The collection will comprise of the Black Diamonds and the Royal Black Diamonds models.

The high-roller Gresso Avantgarde collection handsets are hand-crafted from the exotic African Blackwood. Gold elements cover the mobiles from head to toe. The back panel is made out of stainless steel but is covered by scratch-resistant hand-polished titanium. Attention has been paid to every detail and all the materials used - sapphire crystal glass surrounds the QVGA TFT 65K color display while the titanium-covered keypad comes with laser-cut Roman numerals. Other notable features include the magnetic lock of the battery cover and the use of gold for the screws and some of the keys.


Gresso Royal Black Diamonds • Gresso Black Diamonds

Much like the last two Avantgarde mobiles - the Luna and the Sol, the two Black Diamonds mobiles are truly unique with the Windows Mobile 6 Standard OS they were running on - something never before seen in the world of luxury mobiles.

The Gresso Avantgarde Royal Black Diamonds mobile has a full keypad made of gold - all 23 keys are encased with black diamonds. Since those diamonds are extremely rare only a limited series of 50 mobiles will be ever produced. The Gresso Avantgarde Royal Black Diamonds will be selling at EUR 30 000.

The Gresso Avantgarde Black Diamonds mobile will feature only four black diamonds. The rest of the keys are made out of gold only. The expected retail price of the Gresso Avantgarde Black Diamonds is EUR 9000.

Both mobiles have tri-band GSM/GPRS support and 2 megapixel cameras. The Russian-based Gresso company will make the handset available as soon as this December.

5 megapixel Leeked

5 megapixel

Samsung

G800






Another high-end camera
phone from Samsung
seems to be under way, unofficial information has leaked. The
Samsung G800 slider has a 5
megapixel auto focus camera with 3x optical zoom and is likely the successor of
Samsung G600, which was recently announced.



Samsung G800 is recognizable
for its stylish design and better camera integration with a dedicated camera
button and xenon flash. The back of the phone includes elements, inherent to
advanced camera bodies - a special leather-like cover ensuring better grip, as
well as its lens and xenon flash comfortably covered by a stylish lens lid. The
front panel grabs attention with its large display. The form factor is easily
identifiable as a slider, but it might as well offer a touch-based user
interface and no hardware keypad.



Other features of the Samsung G800
include Bluetooth, USB support, 3G or HSDPA connectivity and stereo speakers. We
are somewhat uncertain about the presence of 3G support, since most of the
Samsung 3G-enabled handset come out under the Z-series. As of yet, no
information is available on the video recording capabilities of the device.



Although optical zoom enabled phones are not something new on the market as we
have already witnessed the coming to light of Nokia N93, Nokia N93i, Sharp 902,
Sharp 903 and Sharp 904, the Samsung G800 looks like quickly becoming a common
favourite when it hits the shelves. This is expected to happen in the early
months of 2008.

Nokia N82


live pictures leaked



Live pictures of what seems to be the most impatiently awaited phone recently
leaked.



This is the largest leakage of information about Nokia N82 - the first 5
megapixel cameraphone with xenon flash by the Finnish-based company. Strangely
enough the pictures are made in sunny Dubai instead of the numb with cold
Finland.








Featuring an enormously large list of extras Nokia N82 is surely destined to
quickly become a common favorite, once it hits the shelves. It has it all -
Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 3G and all niceties of a fully functional S60 smartphone. Even
the N-gage gaming application and the Music store are included. Furthermore
there is a nice improvement with the addition of auto-screen rotation. It works
in almost every part of the phone's user interface, putting the screen into
landscape mode once the phone is turned to its side. The controversial
multimedia key is once again to be seen here and multimedia menu is identical to
the one found in Nokia N81 and Nokia N95 8GB.








Nokia N82 is equipped with 128MB of RAM memory which should provide for very
good performance. The 132MB of internal storage memory in combination with the
microSD card slot make sure that the handset will always have plenty of memory
for saving its 5 megapixel photos. Luckily there is also a sample photo so we
can see what they will look like. As a first impression we have to say that the
photo processing Nokia N82 applies reminds us more of the one of Nokia N73
rather than the one of Nokia N95. The picture is rather too sharp with no
visible traces of the noise-reduction, which we see in Nokia N95.