Armani Phone Combats Rape and Theft Posted Sep 28th 2007 10:03AM by Terrence O'Brien Filed under: Cell Phones, iPhone This week, during his runway show at Milan Fashion Week, Giorgio Armani unveiled a designer phone that packs some pretty high-tech, advanced features. The handset, which is manufactured by Samsung, boasts a massive 2.6-inch touchscreen, 50 Megabytes of built-in storage, Wi-Fi, GPS and a 3.0 Megapixel camera. The touchscreen is rumored to employ haptic feedback technology, which vibrates the phone under your fingers ever so slightly as you tap on the touchscreen. Unlike the iPhone's touchscreen, this gives off the tactile sensation of actually touching buttons. However, the most innovative feature is the phone's so-called rape alarm. The handset can be configured to send a text message to five preprogrammed numbers of friends or family in the event of an attack. They can either call the phone to gauge the situation, call the police or activate the phone's GPS feature to track the owner's whereabouts and movements. The distress signal is activated by pressing the phone's side-mounted volume control four times -- which hopefully has a keylock. The £375 Armani phone also has its own kind of Lojack in the event it is lost or stolen. If the SIM card is removed and replaced with a new one, a text message containing the phone number associated with the new SIM card is secretly sent out to three preprogrammed numbers. Unlike the $25,000 Ferrari phone we reported yesterday, it's nice to see a designer phone that actually has some features worth the higher price, and isn't simply a case of slapping on a fancy label. From Textually.org Lol "Rape Alarm" more like a S.O.S. button but guess that makes it catchy. The features sounds cool though wonder how the "tactile" touch screen works and this thing has wi-fi and a 3 mp camera too.
^That would cause a panic to your friends and family haha...well the function is mostly aimed at girls anyways cause of it's name
hey....that looks quite nice.... wonder if they will launch it in Europe..... about the rape alarm =/.... i already have one of those panic alarms haha.....makes a looot of noise when i use it....
^is there any reason why you used that panic alarm haha, I supposedly have a sos function on my phone too but i don't really know where it is, not gonna have to use it anyways.
lol...hey....im a girl....after going out i catch a train by myself sometimes.... im lucky i only live 3 minutes from station now...it used to be 15 minutes in a very dodgy area/
yea alot of bad things can happen to a girl in 15 minutes at a dodgy area lol, but by the time the police track you by the gps thing they'll only find severed body parts or some other stuff...
wow this phone looks cool. how much does it cost in USD??? i think the touch screen part is almost like the alpine touch screen monitors. feels like a button when u touch it. really nice design and features.
Rape alarm? Reminds of me the sprint commercial where the guy throws the phone at his friends head as a form of "crime deterrent".
Levi's cellphone lol, jean colored perhaps, that would be ugly as hell. I dunno didn't gucci come out with one yet, i thought they did, well at least a collaboration with a cell phone company or something. @angie yes D&G came out with that rip off gold razr lol
