NEWS: Armani to launch mobile phone with Samsung

We are looking forward to seeing Armani's latest foray into personal electronics. The designer is slated to debut a new mobile phone at his show on Monday Spetember 24, reports Reuters, MILAN (Reuters) - Italian designer Giorgio Armani has joined forces with Samsung Electronics to design a television and a mobile phone, along with other consumer electronics, the companies said on Sunday. Armani, one of Italy's leading fashion designers, will unveil a mobile phone model on September 24 at his show for Giorgio Armani womenswear for spring and summer 2008, joining several other designers who have already tapped this market. The Armani-Samsung phone will be the size of a credit card and 10.5 millimeters thick.  An LCD TV will be unveiled in January 2008. "We make as much of a personal statement with the mobile phones that we carry or the televisions that we have in our living rooms as we do with the shoes and bags we wear or the furnishings we choose,"  the designer said in a statement.

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