Team ups between luxury car makers and phone companies are not entirely new. Aston Martin has worked previously with Motorola on some special make-ups of their phones and this time decided to go with a smaller luxury phone maker. Together with Mobiado they present ‘The Grand 350′ cellphone. The “phone is made from a CNC-machined aluminum case, 2.36-inch 271-carat sapphire crystal screen with 16 million colors, stainless steel keys, quad-band antenna, Bluetooth, micro USB connector, GPS and more.”

It comes in black and white colorways and should be available soon.

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With the BlackBerry 7 operating system, RIM will be releasing 5 new BlackBerry smartphones. All in all the release includes two new Bold smartphones and three new Torch smartphones.

The Bold 9900 and 9930 are the thinnest phones to ever come from RIM and next to the new operating system, also come in a new and improved look. The phone combines both a full keyboard and a touch screen display. The Torch 9800 and 9810 phones sport a large touchscreen display and a full slide-out keyboard. Furthermore the Torch 9850 and 9860 comes without slide-out keyboard and come with the largest BlackBerry display to date.

The new operating system is not only much faster, but comes with improvements on all ends, including a much better browsing experience. As much as we love the iPhone, we still miss the keyboard every once in a while and these new BlackBerry smartphones at least seem worth testing out.

Take a further look at the phones after the jump.

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Watch maker Tag Heuer continues to develop their cellphone division and presents the all new Link Smart Phone. Running Android, the phone comes in steel, 18k rose gold, and titanium. The trim can be styled in rubber, alligator, leather, and other materials.

“Unlike anything else on the luxury market, the TAG Heuer LINK is a high-performance machine of unprecedented functionality. Extreme reliability and robustness are guaranteed through a battery of quality tests well exceeding industry standards.
Stand out features include lightning-fast connectivity, 16-million color screen resolution, a large 3.5’’ display, a high-definition 5-mega-pixel auto-focus camera, 11 hours of music play time, and, through its avant-garde Android operating system, download access to over 250,000 applications. It also comes fully loaded with a host of TAG Heuer add-ons: customized screen designs,widgets, animations, wallpapers, icons and ring tones.”

Most luxury phones always had the issue of not running a good operating system, which is of course taken care of in this case with Android. The phone came out beautiful and we cannot wait to see it live. The entry price for the phone is at 4700 Euros.

Take a look at some other color options of it after the jump.

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Sony Ericsson has announced their new Xperia Play smartphone this month. For the first time the company fuses their cellphone and their gaming divisions. The so called “Playstation Phone”, which is releasing March 2011, comes with a full Playstation game controller integrated. All other phone functionality is based on the Android platform. Let’s see if they can get some folks away from their iPhones with this little machine. In terms of looks it did also not turn out too bad actually.

A closer look at the Sony Ericsson Xperia “Playstation Phone” follows after the jump.

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Once again Giorgio Armani teams up with Samsung to release yet another phone. This time they present the Galaxy S Android operated phone.

“The Android-operated Galaxy S features a 5-megapixel camera, multimedia player, push e-mail and 16 gigabytes of memory. The phone will retail at around 700 euros, or about $965 at current exchange, and will be available in Giorgio Armani boutiques and leading mobile retailers in Italy, France, the U.K., Germany, Dubai, China, Hong Kong, Spain, Russia and the Netherlands starting from December.” Via WWD.

The branding is kept to a minimum and this might be in terms of functionality once of the very first interesting fashion phones. At the same time, the question arises, why one would pay the added Armani pricetag, with little to no added value in terms of functionality and design.

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We have always been fans of the Panasonic LUMIX camera line, offering compact high quality digital cameras. Therefore the expectations of the upcoming LUMIX Phone were of course high. From first looks the phone looks much more like a regular cellphone than expected. It features a 13.2 Megapixel camera, 3G and WiFi next to more regular phone features and will come in overall 4 colorways.

Take a further look at the Panasonic LUMIX Phone after the jump.

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The time has come. After multiple leaks earlier in the year, we get to see official images of the new iPhone 4G by Apple today. It turns out that the leaked iPhone was the new one. The new iPhone 4G comes with:

• all new design
• glass on the front and rear
• front facing camera
• camera and LED flash on the back
• thinnest smartphone ever
• stainless steel band on the exterior acts as antenna (the outer rim of the phone)
• stainless steel case
• resolution twice as good as on the 3GS with the Retina display
• new A4 chip designed by Apple
• comes with Mircosim to save space
• imprived battery life by 40%
• 5 megapixel camera with digital zoom
• HD video recording

The WWDS keynote speech by Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs is still going on. We will update with further images through out the day.

Check out more images of the new iPhone 4G after the jump.

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Google today unveiled their own-brand smartphone called the Nexus One. Built in partnership with HTC, the Nexus One is a slim, touchscreen phone engineered to run Google’s powerful Android 2.1 Operating System. Tech specs include a 3.7-inch display, a 1GHz Snapdragon chipset, GPS, accelerometer, a 5-megapixel camera with flash and all the Google apps you can handle. Now shipping within the US. For more info visit google.com/phone.

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Inspired by the mythic Lamborghini Murcielago, TAG Heuer has teamed up with the famous Italian super sports car manufacturer to create the limited-edition MERIDIIST Automobili Lamborghini phone. In tribute to the year Automobili Lamborghini was founded, 1963 pieces of this finely-tuned device will be sold worldwide.

Housed in black titanium carbide coated 316L stainless steel, the design of the MERIDIIST Automobili Lamborghini phone references the super sports car down to its famed signature on the battery cover – the same as on the Lamborghini Murcielago LP 640’s V12 engine block. The back of the device is engraved with its limited edition number while the keyboard is customized with Automobili Lamborghini’s trademark Taurus bull on the steel central button.

The TAG Heuer MERIDIIST Automobili Lamborghini phone will be available in November at selected TAG Heuer and Lamborgini retailers.

Take a further look at the phone after the jump.

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MetroPCS and Samsung got together with graffiti artist Mr. Cartoon to collaborate on the Samsung Messager phone. The limited edition Samsung Messager will be available to consumers in all MetroPCS markets. Mister Cartoon wallpapers, ringtones and animation are preloaded on the handsets with additional downloads available from the MetroPCS Web site. A portion of revenues generated from this MetroPCS and SA Studios Global initiative will go directly to funding community art centers, outreach programs for at-risk youth and art supplies for local Los Angeles schools, Mister Cartoon’s hometown. Additionally, the first ten phones in the series will be auctioned for charity on the MetroPCS Web site in the month of August.

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The Tag Heuer Meridiist phone comes in a new black PVD version. Furhtermore the phone features black leather applications with contrasting red stitching. The new version of the phone was inspired by the Grand Carrera watch of the brand. The almost un-scratchable surface, paired with the mat black colorway certainly turned out great. Via GQ.

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