Tech: Giorgio Armani x Samsung

The Samsung P520 Armani phone has been officially unveiled during the Giorgio Armani fashion show. The Samsung SGH-P520 is a sexy looking device and of which gets rid of that boring old conventional keypad. The Samsung P520 Georgio Armani is a credit-card-sized touchscreen handset with a 3 megapixel camera.

It has a full touch activated interface and a QVGA touch-sensitive display in 320 x 240 pixels, capable of showing 262K colours. Samsungs P520 uses a microSD memory card slot on top of the 50 MB of internal memory.

Battery life is good for such a slim handset (only 8.9mm thick) with 6 hours of talk time. Bluetooth connectivity is provided along with the A2DP stereo option and


The phone comes with J2ME™ games already embedded and it is possible for the user to download many games from the Internet. The user can stay in contact with friends, family and business colleagues by creating either a SMS text message, email or MMS multimedia message. The MMS message allows the user to share photos and video with other MMS contacts.

Go Go Gadget Pen

A new writing gadget called the Pulse Pen is likely to change the way you take notes. The cigar shaped object allows users to coordinate recorded audio and handwritten notes by using specialized paper. The genius of this product lies in its ability to allow the user to later pull up a digital image of the notes on a computer and point to a place on that image to hear the audio recorded at the time the original note was taken. Users can also use the notepad to hear the audio play back through a speaker built into the pen.

3G iPhone, Eat Your Heart Out

Samsung has developed and released the first 3G phone to be available called the Instinct. It is exclusive to Sprint network and have plenty to offer. With the 3G iPhone failing to appease techies, you can expect to see more Instincts in the hands of the average consumer. Here is a review: