Samsung Giorgio Armani (B7620) has already made its way out in the international market and now the non-QWERTY slider specifically meant for Samsung’s home market has also been given the official treatment. The W820/W8200 Giorgio Armani will be released later this month but Samsung has started taking pre-orders with stores like New World Department Store offering special prizes.

As mentioned above, the phone does away with the QWERTY to adopt a normal alphanumeric keypad and features 3.1-inch WVGA touchscreen, Armani UI, sapphire glass, 5MP auto focus camera and T-DMB.

The exact price is unknown at the moment but expect it to sell for more than a million Korean won (US$850).

Remember the Giorgio Armani phone that was supposed to be announced way back in June? Yes, it got official today. Samsung and Giorgio Armani showed off the device in Milan, Italy in the presence of Steve Ballmer (wearing a tie signed by Armani!) and Giorgio Armani himself.

The phone is strikingly similar to W820/W8200 with gold and black accents but unlike the Korean counterpart, this version sports a nicely spaced out QWERTY keyboard and a screen that tilts 30 degrees (like Nokia N97).

As for the features, the phone is powered by WinMo 6.5, loaded with Armani applications, 3.5-inch AMOLED touchscreen, GPS, 5MP camera, 8GB internal storage and more.

Samsung plans to sell this phone for around 700 Euros ($1032).

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Want to see more of Giorgio Armani phone that was leaked last month? Well, a Korean website has published some high quality pictures along with detailed explanation of the design, UI and other functions. Unfortunately for us, the explanation is in Korean but pictures are worth ogling.

The specs jibe with what we uncovered last time. The W820/W8200 features 3.1-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, DMB, 5MP Camera, HSDPA, Bluetooth, microSD card slot supporting up to 16GB.

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[Thanks, Jeon!]

Hail Bluetooth SIG because without them we wouldn’t have known what Samsung is planning behind closed doors. New Samsung phone added to the expanding Bluetooth Product directory is GT-B7620. If you’ve been following Samsung’s nomenclature, phones under the B7XXX fall under the Omnia Pro Series but B7620 is in fact, Giorgio Armani 2. How about this tweet as a proof?

Anyways, the good thing is that the phone is decently packed and will appeal to the power as well as fashion conscious users. The phone runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro (which I reckon will get an upgrade to WinMo 6.5 in the near future) and houses a fast 800MHz processor. It will also have an unspecified chip to handle graphics discretely, Stereo FM Radio with RDS, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, Bluetooth, Business card scanner, Pocket Office, Photo/video editor and Work/Life mode that could be something related to the user profile. The phone also enjoys a variety of multimedia codec support like MP3/WAV/e-AAC+/WMA/AMR for music and DivX/XviD/MPEG4/3gp/H.263/H.264 for video.

Now let’s hope Samsung announces the phone asap without the need to postpone the device again.

UPDATE: Ron from Mobilecowboys claims to have played with the device. He says the phone has a sliding QWERTY keyboard and an Armani branding with Gold accents. If that’s the case then we can expect the Armani phone to be on the lines of OmniaPRO B7610 (or maybe the same with different branding).

PS: The image above is just an old mockup.

UPDATE: Samsung has postponed the announcement.

We already knew this and now Samsung has decided to do it the official way. On June 11 in Milan they’ll show their new offspring created along with the fashion brand. Microsoft’s name in the press conference makes it clear that the phone will be based on Windows Mobile.

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Samsung’s couple of attempts partnered with the fashion brand didn’t turn out as expected. But now President of Samsung Electronics has confirmed to Taipei Times that they are gearing up to take another shot with Armani. There are not many details available except the phone will be a Windows Mobile based device presumably running Windows Mobile 6.5. Stay tuned, we’ll update as soon as something develops.

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