Bang & Olfusen Shuts Down Mobile Phone Business

Bang & Olfusen, the design minds behind the Serene and Serenata (pictured), have ended their brief foray in the mobile phone business. The company had teamed with Samsung to corner the huge projected market of rich people who want to pay too much for a phone that will only comfortably fit a deformed alien head, but apparently the sector just wasn’t as lucrative as it would seem. [mobil via Wired]