There are two Bang & Olufsen mobile phones currently on the market, both built together with Samsung: Samsung Serene and Samsung Serenata F310.

These two weird-looking handsets will be the only ones ever manufactured by Bang & Olufsen. The company wants to concentrate its business only on its audio and video products, as apparently its other branches are not that profitable.   

Released about three years ago, Samsung Serene can still be bought from Bang & Olufsen shops. Samsung Serenata F310 (pictured above) was launched in late 2007 and, obviously, you can also find it in B&O’s stores. Both mobile phones have retail prices of more than €1,000. 

Although there will be no more B&O cell phones, the company will still collaborate with Samsung. In consequence, the South Korean manufacturer will still embed Bang & Olufsen’s ICEpower audio technology into its phones, offering consumers a high-quality mobile music experience.

Via mobil.se     

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And there’s one more vital thing you’ll need if you are shelling out $2000 for a designer/luxury mobile phone like Samsung Serenata/Symphony F310.

An exclusive Samsung B&O Symphony F310 Louis Vuitton designer leather case.

Made from natural calfskin with a perfect surface dyed with special vegetative essences, no less.

Otherwise your beauty gadget might get scratched, or something. And then you won’t be able to show it off anymore…

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Well, that’s not true apparently. The overall shape Samsung F310 Serenata may have been designed by B&O, but most of the rest is the work of the Korean company themselves. And Samsung even has the patent application to prove it:

So all of you potential copycats that are not in China, beware. If you decide that you like this slated slider form factor, signature speaker or even the flip-cradle to hold the phone upright on the table, tough.

Just look with envy at the functional beauty that B&O Samsung Serenata F310 is and think of ways to achieve the same effect by other means

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The only problem was that we kept getting only those small blurry images for Samsung B&O Serenata F310 which did not do much good for getting the real feel for the device. Well, now Serenata has been announced officially, and some sites already got their hands on it:

Samsung Bang&Olufsen Serenata phone will have 1.8 Mbps HSDPA connectivity, 4 GB of on-board memory, big speaker, 2. 4″ 240×240 px 262K color touchscreen display and click wheel navigation to wade through your music collection.

According to Mobil.se,  the price for Bang&Olufsen Serenata/Samsung F310 is expected to be an incredible 13000 SEK, which is 1400 Euro or 2000 US$. It will measure at 63×109,5×19,7 and weight 136 gr.

According to B&O, Serenata can actually function as a decent home entertainment system.

Oh, and you can make the phone calls with Samsung Serenata Bang&Olufsen music phone too.

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Now, thank’s to Russian cellphone retailer Mobitronix, we’ve got a picture and more detailed specs for Samsung F310/ B&O Serenata and can confirm that it is different:

As you can see Samsung SGH F310/Serenata has got quite an interesting looks and even more interesting features.

B&O Serenata/ Samsung F310 specs include:

• GSM 900/1800/1900 + 2.1GHz UMTS, EDGE, HSDPA 1.8 Mbps connectivity
• 240×240 262K color Touchscreen
• 4 GB of memory
• Mp3 player
• Mpeg4 player
• Dimensions: 109.5 x 63 x 19.7 mm

Unfortunately available picture is too small to get better idea about how this phone may work.

But even this small picture is enough to tell that Samsung F310 Serenata is no ordinary phone. Just as any good high tech fashion toy should be.

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And it’s still the same. No official news or specs on Samsung SGH-F200. Except that it has now been approved by FCC and should be coming to U.S. pretty soon:

Samsung F310/Bang&Olufsen Serenata is another interesting and unannounced mobile phone model, which seems to be the result of joint venture between Korean cellphone giant and Danish High Tech Fashion powerhouse.

F310/Serenata, that can be seen on FCC site, is an oval shaped 1900GSM/WCDMA/EDGE flip phone with Bluetooth and will probably be sold through 2 separate channels. Traditional cellphone/retail channel as high end Samsung F310 Fashion Phone and through Bang&Olufssen retail outlets as B&O Serenata.

Samsung E590 is another Fashion Phone, which unlike most of the others, has been officially announced by Samsung. Just not for the U.S. Market yet.

Samsung E590 is a candybar shaped GSM 900/1800/1900, GPRS/EDGE phone was designed by Jasper Morrison. It features 3 mpx camera, 1.79″ 220×220 262K color display, FM Radio, MP3 player, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, 70MB of internal memory and microSD card slot.

Samsung E590 has also been approved by FCC and should be on sale in the U.S. sometime later this year:

Another Samsung phone to pass through FCC approval is Samsung C510L. It’s a cheap GSM clamshell with FM Radio and VGA camera, which you should be able to get for $1 through most of your wireless carrier plans:

Samsung T729 is the last phone to pass through FCC yesterday. Here too, very few details, except that it’s a 850/1900 GSM/EDGE Phone with Bluetooth, is available. The looks and numbering scheme for Samsung T729 suggest that it may be upgrade to the popular Samsung T719 clamshell with Blackberry Connect and Sure Type keyboard:

It appears that Samsung will have quite a few new phones to offer for this summer/fall season in U.S.

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Retailing somewhere in the $350 range Earset 2 won’t be for the most of us.

But it certainly would look cool next to $1275 B&F Serene Mobile

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