Bang & Olufsen team up with Samsung on the Serenata
October 1st, 2007
Having given us the Serene, Bang & Olufsen and Samsung perform another amazing duet to give us the Serenata a uniquely designed music player and mobile phone. The device uses a simple scroll wheel interface to select your favourite tunes and to make calls to your friends to let them know you’ve paid out for one of these babies. The Serenata plays nicely with both PCs and Macs via USB and will talk to iTunes with some software available at the B&O website. The unit has a built in speaker so is a mini music system in its own right and for more private moments the unit comes with the ergonomic EarSet 3 which fit ‘so snug, you’ll hear notes which would otherwise never make it to your ear’. To make calls and send messages the Serenata has a ‘sensi-touch display’ and the scroll wheel will navigate you through menus and messages.
The phone sports GSM 900, 1800, 1900 and WCDMA 2100 and has a 3 hour talk time and 280 hours on standby. The display is a square 2.26 inch 240 x 240 res and bluetooth connectivity is available for a headset etc. On the tunes side of the spec there’s 4 GB of memory, 5 hours of speaker playback, 13 hours on headset and the unit supports mp3, wma and the rare wma lossless format.
The styling is well, what you’d expect from Bang & Olufsen and so unfortunately is the price rocking in at around US$2000. So for all its flash looks and great sound quality I don’t think these will be selling like hot cakes more like stylish, fashionable cakes. Check it out and listen to some mellow tunes at the Serenata website.
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