On October 9, 2009 in Milan, respresetatives from Giorgio Armani unveiled the line's newest addtion; a smartphone featuring Windows Mobile, developed in partnership with Samsung. The Samsung B7620, dubbed the 'Armani phone' was described as "the most fashionable phone [he's] ever had a chance to talk about" by Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, who spoke at the unveiling. The phone was a joint project between Giorgio Armani, Samsung, and Microsoft. Just three days prior to the event, Microsoft announced a new generation of Windows phones from leading manufacturers and mobile operators that offer an intuitive user interface, powerful Web browsing, and access to an online library of downloadable services and applications.http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/oct09/10-09armaniphone.mspx

The Armani phone was released to the market on February 24, 2010. The device works on both 2G GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900, and 3G HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100 networks. The phone has a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $1030.http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_b7620_giorgio_armani-review-402.php

It comes in a high gloss black and bronze, and features a 3.5 inch full touchscreen and slide-out, landscape QWERTY keyboard. The Armani phone comes equipped with a 5 megapixel auto-focus camera with dual LED flash and VGA video , 8GB of internal storage, a GPS chip, and microSD slot. The phone's 1500mAh Li-Ion battery features a talk time of up to 11 hours, 30 minutes, and a standby time of up to 590 hours. Referencing the phone's designer qualities, the device comes with a built-in business card scanner and Giorgio Armani fashion applicationshttp://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_b7620_giorgio_armani-review-402.php

Networks

• 2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• 3G Network: HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100

Size

• Dimensions: 118.5 x 58.3 x 16.4 mm
• Weight: 164 g

Display

• AMOLED resistive touchscreen, 16M colors (65K effective)
• Size: 800 x 480 pixels, 3.5 inches
• Advanced R tilting touchscreen display
• Full QWERTY keyboard
• Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate

Memory

• Phonebook: Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photo call
• Call records: Practically unlimited
• Internal: 8 GB storage, 256 MB RAM, 512MB ROM
• Card slot: microSD, up to 32GB,

Data

• GPRS: Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
• EDGE: Class 10, 236.8 kbps
• 3G: HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps
• WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, DLNA
• Bluetooth: Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
• Infrared port: No
• USB: Yes, v2.0 microUSB

Camera

• Primary: 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
• Features: Geo-tagging, face and smile detection, wide dynamic range, image stabilization, panorama shot
• Video: Yes, 640x480, at 30fps (VGA)
• Secondary: Yes

Sound

• Alert types: Vibration, MP3 ringtones
• Speakerphone: Yes

Features

• OS: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, upgradeable to Windows Mobile 6.5
• CPU: Samsung S3C6410 800MHz processor, dedicated graphics accelerator
• Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
• DivX/XviD/MP4/3gp/H.263/H.264 player
• Colors: Black and Bronze
• Business card scanner
• Games: Yes
• Giorgio Armani fashion applications
• GPS: Yes, with A-GPS support; Route 66
• Java: Yes, MIDP 2.0
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, RSS, IM
• MP3/WAV/e-AAC+/WMA/AMR player
• Mobile tracker
• Photo/video editor
• Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF viewer)
• Radio: Stereo FM radio with RDS
• TV-out
• Voice memo/dial
• Work & Life mode

Battery

• Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh
• Stand-by: Up to 590 h
• Talk time: Up to 11h 30 min