Samsung India has launched the WinMo powered Giorgio Armani phone to please the classy business users. Coming in the same gold and black accent, the phone runs on Windows Mobile 6.5 and offers rich connectivity options like high-speed HSDPA and HSUPA, Wi-Fi and quadband GSM support.

Amongst other features, the phone boasts a big 3.5-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, a slider QWERTY keyboard that tilts 30 degrees, 5MP camera, Bluetooth, music player, GPS, 8GB internal memory and microSD card slot supporting up to 32GB.

The phone is expected to reach retail stores sometime next week with a price hovering around Rs. 30,000 mark.

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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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.