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new cellphones

Samsung and B&O Join Forces for the Dual-Slider F400

Behold the latest offering from Samsung and B&O: the 3G, dual-slider F400. Slide the front upwards and you get your keypad, slide it down and your B&O speakers heave into view. As well as the 2.2-inch QVGA display, there's an RDS-enabled FM radio and MicroSD card slot. Price is expected to be around the 380€ mark, which is around 552 of your buckeroonies, when it launches in March. [Tech Digest]

6:49 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By AddyDugdale
2,960 views, 2 comments

self calibrating tv

Bang & Olufsen's BeoVision HDTV Self-Calibrates With Its Robotic Appendage

Tuning your television is something only videophiles and Gizmodo readers do (seriously, normal people don't care enough to spend a few hours on this), but Bang & Olufsen's BeoVision 4 might change that practice. The 1080p TV has a built-in robotic arm with a camera on the end that swings down in front of the display in order to test the picture. More »

1:25 PM on Thu Jan 31 2008
By Jason Chen
6,175 views, 18 comments

serenata

Bang & Olufsen Serenata Hands-On Video

Zara over at Shiny Shiny got her hands on the Bang & Olufsen/Samsung Serenata phone, which isn't just a phone, it's a "personal music system." Even after watching the video it's unclear how the music UI capabilities outclass say, the iPhone, but the external speakers seem like they sound pretty great—it even has bass. Not like Enya even has any bass in any of her songs. We'll see if we can get a closeup video of the UI for you. [Shiny Shiny]

1:50 PM on Thu Oct 4 2007
By Jason Chen
5,476 views, 24 comments

Latest by wrenchmonkey26: "So I'd like to demonstrate the sound quality on this device, so I will play a sample of this song. ready? can you hear that?....blah blah blah blah blah blah...If you'd shut up for 15 seconds, maybe we could hear more »

cellphones

Samsung, Bang & Olufsen Announce Serenata Music Phone

Bang & Olufsen and Samsung made their new Serenata music phone official today, as promised, sporting the distinctive look and sure-to-be ludicrous pricing that B&O is known for. Loaded with 4GB of flash memory, the Serenata has a built-in speaker that's designed to pump out your jams with no headphones necessary. I'd say don't use this on the subway, but anyone who can afford a B&O phone doesn't use public transportation. More »

5:15 PM on Mon Oct 1 2007
By Adam Frucci
11,710 views, 32 comments

Latest by psalmplasma: @travis I still have it, it has to be in the same drawer i threw it in couple years ago. I won't argue, it's a beautiful object, not a bad "phone" - but the really awkward design (not to use the more »

home entertainment

Bang & Olufsen DVD 2 Has TV Tuner, DVD Recorder

Bang & Olufsen's latest sex-tastic DVD player doesn't just play back DVDs, there's an analog TV tuner, HDMI output, Guide Plus+, a 250GB hard drive and the ability to burn shows to DVD as well. This may not have TiVo-level functionality, but it's infinitely better looking. And when's the last time anyone besides that redhead on Sex and the City wanted to hump a TiVo? [B&O via Far East Gizmos via New Launches]


2:29 PM on Wed Aug 22 2007
By Jason Chen
2,939 views, 2 comments

fashion phone

Samsung F310/B&O Serenata Details Leaked

Back in May there was a sighting of an interesting new phone on the FCC website. Now, a Russian cellphone retailer has passed on some more details of the Samsung F310, also called the B&O Serenata.
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7:08 AM on Tue Aug 14 2007
By msparkes
5,224 views, 1 comment

no bang for your buck

Beosound 6 MP3 Player, Great Looks at Even Greater Cost

Bang & Olufsen's Beosound 6 MP3 player is definitely a "come and get me" nod toward the Nano market—albeit the few people in the Nano market who would be happy to spunk a schmazillion bucks on an MP3 player with poxy 4GB memory (are there any out there?) So what has ramped the price up to over four times the price of an equivalent Nano—surely it's not the leather case and A8 earphones that accompany it... More »

9:07 AM on Fri Jul 13 2007
By AddyDugdale
6,729 views, 12 comments

Latest by voicegy: Bleech. Back in the day (late 70's / into the 80's) when Jacob Jensen was head designer at B&O, their products were truly of the future. I still have my old Beocenter 7700 (incorporated a record player) and it's a more »

overpriced gear

B&O BeoVision 7 Fully Satisfies the Snob in You

Yes, they did it again. Danish pals, clown number and technology re-packers Bang & Olufsen want to sell you another Samsung LCD panel in a nice box: the BeoVision 7. Nothing wrong with that. Their 40-inch TV with integrated DVD and central speaker certainly looks amazing, but when Kim Gravesen, B&O Chief here, says she's he's "very excited for the arrival of BeoVision 7 as it is truly an unparalleled LCD television and home entertainment unit that exhibits renowned Bang & Olufsen design and technology" I just have to jump in. More »

5:30 PM on Thu Jun 14 2007
By Addy Dugdale
6,128 views, 8 comments

Latest by XtremeCamera: Umm... I've been watching the progress of my new HD MacBook Pro 17-inch travel from CHINA to my home here in NH (arriving this morning by 10:30!). The best, most incredibly cool, advanced, top quality Apple laptop ever made and more »

peripherals

Samsung WEP 420 Bluetooth Headset is B&O-Designed, Looks Square

Just testing. I know it's oblong, but it's Monday morning and I want to see if you've all recovered from St. Patrick's Day. Anyway, enough about my weekend, here's the week's first gizmo. Samsung has teamed up with Danish designmeisters Bang & Olufsen to create their new Bluetooth headset, the WEP 420. And it looks good (although personally I think there's something a bit ho-bot about Bluetooth earpieces). All buttons are hidden behind the sliding cover, which itself blocks static to give you better sound quality. More »

6:10 AM on Mon Mar 19 2007
By www.gizmodo.com
6,139 views, 3 comments

Latest by ben792x: That's what the iPhone headset is going to resemble. Sexy. more »

home entertainment

B&O's Soprano Music Trunk is Stuck in the Past

Apparently Bang & Olufsen didn't get the memo that people aren't really buying CDs anymore. Their Soprano Music Trunk is a big piece of furniture that can hold 480 CDs in its two dozen drawers. It has a built-in Beosound 3000 CD player and a couple of Beolab 3 speakers. More »

11:15 AM on Fri Jan 26 2007
By Adam Frucci
429 views, 17 comments

cellphones

B&O Discovers Bluetooth

If you still have some dough left over after splurging on the Serene, B&O will soon be offering an update to the Earset 1, the aptly named Earset 2. It's their first Bluetooth headset (welcome to 2006, guys) and it uses two omnidirectional mics to transmit better quality sound than your run-of-the-mill wireless headset. One thing we do like about the unit, it doesn't appear to have that flashing blue "mug-me" light that most Bluetooth headsets have. But light or no light, at $200 dollars, this is one headset we'll skip. – Louis Ramirez More »

1:05 PM on Thu Nov 9 2006
By Louis Ramirez
954 views, 12 comments

Latest by mentalhangover: Nothing. Their "Specialness" ran out back in the 80s. Now they're just a company who doesn't know when to quit. I always thought they're stuff was ugly and overpriced. Not to mention it broke down soon after the purchase. Give it up more »

press

GQ Declares B&O BeoCom 2 Worst Phone Ever

Just days after we notice the mixed piece on the beautiful but ridiculously priced B&O Serene cellphone in the NYTimes, I notice GQ's scathing declaration that the B&O BeoCom 2 is the worst landline phone to ever hook up to POTS.
Even the most masochistic consumer will resent the two-column number pad, a bewildering design choice that complicates what should be a simple act: dialing.
This is exactly why we need the mainstream media's gadget coverage—to keep us on our toes when the gadget lust comes in and common sense hits the fan. More »

10:08 PM on Wed Nov 1 2006
By Brian Lam
3,782 views, 15 comments

Latest by dpad02: Gorgeous phone. Stunning quality, and beleive it or not, once you are used to the buttons and shape, making a phone call ia a very fluent action. Too expensive though. $1300 approximatelly :O I scratch my head as to why more »

press

NYT's Pogue Breaks Hearts: He Does Not Love the B&O Serene


He loves it, he loves it not. More »
b&o

NYT's Pogue Loves the B&O Serene Cellphone

You'd think the NYT's practical David Pogue would rip apart a $1275 dollar cellphone from the typically overhyped and under delivered B&O. But he loves it, even going so far as to say this:
...the world craves a phone that conveys, like Apple's iPod, a feeling of beauty, elegance and instantaneous mastery.This week, a cellphone matching that description has finally arrived — but it's not from Apple. Its design comes from Bang & Olufsen, maker of expensive, hyper-stylish stereos and cordless phones.
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8:05 PM on Fri Oct 27 2006
By Brian Lam
436 views, 15 comments

Latest by poguenyt: "BTW, I totally made you Stevie Wonder. Didn't you see when I put Mossberg on the head of the Pokemon kid? You totally owe me one, man." Duly noted--and thanks! But whoa. You not only get to write your own headlines, but more »