Samsung’s collaboration with Bang & Olufsen, the Serenata, is not really successful and B&O is leaving the cellphone market,So the South Korean electronic giant decided to do it herself by introducing the Samsung Ego GT-S9402 luxury phone.
Samsung Ego GT-S9402 features a 2-inch AMOLED display, a 5 Megapixel auto focus camera, FM tuner, Bluetooth, 1GB internal memory and a microSDHC card slot. The phone has two SIM card slots. The first SIM slot supports tri-band GSM and second SIM slot supports dual band GSM. 3G is not supported.
Samsung has decided to forgo a fancy design with it’s Ego phone and opted for a classical candybar form factor. And for some “luxury” advanced materials. According to the official PR the body of S9402 Samsung Ego phone is made of “liquidmetal” composite alloy developed by Caltech, which is “3 times stronger, can withstand 1.8 times the pressure, is 1.6 time more flexible, has 3 times better vibration absorbption and 100% lower termal conductivity then titanium“.
The Ego GT-S9402 comes without diamonds or gold, but a liquidmetal body. Developed by Caltech, the liquidmetal is “3 times stronger, can withstand 1.8 times the pressure, is 1.6 time more flexible, has 3 times better vibration absorption and 100% lower thermal conductivity then titanium“.
Samsung Ego S9402 features:
- Triband GSM (900/1800/1900 Mhz), GPRS/EDGE connectivity on 1st SIM card
- Dual band (900/1800 Mhz), GPRS/EDGE connectivity on 2nd SIM card
- 2″ 262K color QVGA AMOLED display
- 5 mpx camera with autofocus, image stabilization, smile detection
- WDR and LED flash
- FM Radio with RDS
- 1 GB of built-in memory
- microSDHC memory card slot (up to 8 GB)
- Bluetooth 2.0 and USB
- 960 mAh battery
- Dimensions: 115 x 48 x 16 mm
- Weight: 140 g
The Samsung Ego GT-S9402 will be priced at Euro 1200.