Posted by axxxr
The watch maker Tag Heuer is preparing to release a mobile phone within the coming months.
ESATO NEWS
Tag Heuer is having a completely new phone designed for them by the French phone maker ModeLabs who make custom mobile phones for various companies including MTV and Virgin Mobile. ModeLabs also makes the Elite Model Look phone mentioned last year.
The phone is expected to be made of stainless steel and have many similarities to Tag Heuer watches. This is another attempt at the luxury phone market created and dominated by Vertu, in recent months other companies such as GoldVish and Gresso have also enter the market but have yet to make an impression.
Posted by goldenface
Well if the phones are as good as their time-pieces....
Posted by axxxr
Could this be it?
Posted by fatreg
i hope not.
that is minging.
fatreg
Posted by axxxr
It won't be,its just a Tag Heuer fanboy photoshop job!
Posted by masseur
it seems this story may now become a reality
TAG Heuer to launch mobile phone (reuters)
"The launch of the first TAG Heuer mobile telephone is foreseen for the second half of 2008," the companies said in a joint statement
Posted by Dogmann
Hi Masseur and all,
From reading the article it doesn't look like they will be making a watch phone as much as a Tag Heuer branded phone. As a self confessed Titanium addict a phone made of this with TAG styling could attract my interest. I just hope it isn't tacky with F1 car ring tones or Golf sound effects or even Tennis for that matter. But could be interesting to see what they come up with.
Marc
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Posted by belialwafu
where will you txt?
Posted by $herry
Yes how do u send an sms? speech recognition?
Posted by kyjely
nice thread by AXXXR.
i really wouldn't mind a TAG branded phone since i love the watches so much.
Posted by amawanqa
Tag Heuer's new 'Meridiist' phone:
http://www.gsmarena.com/tag_h[....]r_phone_meridiist-news-483.php
Posted by NightBlade
A tad... bulky, if you ask me.
Posted by amawanqa
Yeah, it does look a bit on the bulky side. Like the novel/unique display on the top of the handset.
Posted by carkitter
That's a very good design.
I like the bevelled keys with the discrete lettering on the lower surface. The flush screen that reaches oh-so-close to the edge of the phone is dramatic and sophisticated IMO, the top mounted OLED screen is innovative and useful while the use of leather works very well.
I've never liked Vertu styling; I think this is much better looking. Any word on specs?
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Posted by amawanqa
@ carkitter:
Nothing much (yet) on the official site:
http://www.tagheuer.com/phones/meridiist/index.lbl?lang=en
430 components
• Constructed from corrosion-resistant, watch making 316L steel
• Unscratchable 60.5 carats sapphire crystal dual displays
• Front independent time unit
• 28 days power reserve
• 7 hours of talktime
..and GSMArena info:
'The most notable achievement about the Meridiist is probably its battery life - besides 7 hours of talk time it is said to offer almost unmatched standby time of 672 hours (or 28 days). We wonder how it would manage to achieve those numbers.
The Tag Heuer Meridiist is armed with a 2 megapixel camera, a primary 1.9-inch display with QVGA resolution and a secondary OLED one with a resolution of 96 x 76 pixels. The secondary display is rather unusually placed on top of the device and is used for displaying the time (with Swiss precision, you can bet) and your incoming call ID.'
Posted by amawanqa
More pics:
Croc skin option, anyone?:
Posted by BobaFett
an update
http://translate.google.com/t[....]angpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Posted by deepsme
The Meridist pictured in FCC..
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