Vertu to launch Ferrari Mobile Phone

Vertu, ­Nokia’s luxury phone brand has extended its branding agreement with Ferrari. It has announced a new limited edition mobile phone.

The new phone is made from titanium, with a matte-black finish. The rear of the handset will be covered in red and black leather, supplied from the same source as the leather used in the Italian sports cars.

Ferrari’s iconic Prancing Horse logo is on both the front and rear of the handset, in embossed steel.

Just 2011 of the limited edition handsets will be made – pricing not announced, but will be extremely expensive.

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Appcelerator acquires Aptana

Mobile apps development services provider, Appcelerator has brought the website applications vendor, Aptana. The company aims to combine the services to develop combined mobile and desktop computer applications on one platform.

The acquisition also brings together two of the world’s largest web development communities, Appcelerator’s and Aptana’s, to create a huge application development base of over 1,500,000 application developers.

Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

As part of the acquisition, the entire Aptana team has joined Appcelerator to continue building out the company’s platform and tools. Appcelerator plans to integrate support for its mutual customer base and combined developer community over the coming months.

Appcelerator will begin offering a free beta of its integrated Appcelerator/Aptana offering in late Q1, 2011. This release will include a full debugger, auto-complete, and robust editing tools for Titanium-based applications. The company will also be making additional product roadmap announcements over the coming months.

Here comes a mobile phone, inspired by the colours of the ocean. We are talking about the new Ascent Ti Neon that comes with rubber on the back instead of the leather of the regular Ascent Ti, in a choice of four colours: green, orange, pink and white. What makes the phone so expensive could be attributed to its titanium chassis.

Providing a talk time of 4.5 hours (GSM) and a standby time of around 400 hours, the phone supports the quad band GSM coverage and WCDMA2100 throughout the world.

Ascent Ti Neon has a QVGA display, 4GB of internal memory, 3MP camera and supports Bluetooth interface.

Not to forget to mention, the phone comes with a high performance hands free loudspeaker.

The phone will go on sale in October and will cost nearly $9,900.

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This mobile phone is worth a whack

A luxury mobile phone that has diamonds as control buttons is to go on sale for £200 000.

The Black Diamond smartphone was designed by Jaren Goh and is built by Swiss firm VIPN.

The menu navigator button is a 0.25 carat diamond while more diamonds decorate the titanium body.

The Black Diamond phone also changes colour from silver to black when not in use.

Only five are being made and the phone is expected to be available from early next year.

Three Americans, a Russian and the Sultan of Oman are all said to have expressed an interest.

Source- http://www.iol.co.za

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