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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Shanzhai Armani phone touts retro-styled good looks

So you live in China, you desperately want to impress the ladies with your top drawer fashion sense but you don't have the cabbage for a proper fashion-house cell phone. Not a problem. Step this way sir. The shanzhai understand your frustration and have an antidote for your condition; we call it the Armani cell phone. Classic yet svelte, it's guaranteed to swell your faltering ego.

Actually, in recent months we've dug up a fair few fancy Dan fashion phones from leading fashion designers like Luis Vuitton and Chanel. Even Pierre Cardin got a look-in with a branded tablet PC. So an Armani phone was surely only a matter of time, even though this particular Armani phone is not content to simply clone existing Armani designs already out there in the wild, opting instead for a fairly original retro-styled design. Read on.

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