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Bang & Olfusen Shuts Down Mobile Phone Business

4:29AM Mark Wilson | 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] More »

Samsung’s Bang & Olufsen Phone Coming In 17 Days

3:27AM Jason Chen | Samsung and Bang & Olufssen have just thrown up a teaser site for their Serenata phone, which comes at us in just 17 days. What the phone has internally or even what it looks like is still a mystery on the site, but putting two and two together from earlier leaks you get a phone with 4GB flash memory, MPEG-4 video, 240×240 display, HSDPA and UMTS 3G, and also an iPod-esque scroll wheel. If the past leaks are correct, this is what the phone will look like—an electric razor. [Serenata via Electronista] More »