Introduction
Exclusive pictures? Sensational video on you tube? Muhaha. Here is a review. We got the phone from the manufacturer on the day of announcement, I’ve been overusing it since then. I decided to get used to it whatever it costs. Success. Only one SMS I’ve written, but I haven’t brought out the SIM card anytime. It can be lived with or even it can be a pleasure sometimes but it’s mainly because of the appearance.
Let’s take a tour in the past first. The Bang & Olufsen brand – as I experienced again - is not as well known as I expected. However the Danish company have a really nice past in the history of entertainment electronics, they had started their operation at the turn of the century and soon reached the point when they distinguished themselves from the faceless manufacturer with the mixture of top quality and mellow design. When I met Gyula with the phone in my hand, he was overjoyed, because he is a B&O fanatic, although he only could afford a 17 year old TV but his biggest dream is a Maserati which has audio system delivered from Denmark. We agreed that the Bang & Olufsen brand can be really exclusive in Hungary until the muscle-necked mafia mademans discover it for themselves.
Once the manufacturer was asked why didn’t they have an advertising model as the illustrious companies usually had. The answer was simple: What for and who could be that? The joking questioner suggested Paris Hilton, when the agent of the B&O answered something like this: we don’t need celebrities to be successful. Although if you asked Paris Hilton whether she had Bang & Olufsen stuff at home or not, she’d answer yes.
The company made its first mobile with the co-operation of the Samsung, which was on the market with name “Serene”. Officially it wasn’t available in Hungary, but we managed to acquire a test phone and the motor-driven flip and the strange buttons were exclusive, the first phone of the B&O was not a really user-friendly one, technically it was behind the competitors. However they didn’t give up, the Serenata was also made with the co-operation of the Korean giant but it’s important to mention that the design the sound system and the GUI are the B&O’s own, the Samsung gave the mobile technology to the stuff.
The phone had Hungarian menu that’s why it presumably will be available in Hungary too, but not the Samsung will turn it over either the Bang & Olufsen. It’s price? Above 1000 euros.
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