Samsung  Serenata

The Samsung Serenata is definitely one of the strangest looking phones we've ever seen, but this curious handset is different from almost everything else for a reason. The result of a joint effort between Samsung and Bang & Olufsen, the Serenata is an impressive multimedia phone with a radical user interface.It's not the first phone we've seen from the Samsung / Bang & Olufsen tie-up.

It's not the first phone we've seen from the Samsung / Bang & Olufsen tie-up. First there was the Serene, announced two years ago
- a phone that shared the novel "upside down" approach with the screen..
So far the Serenata doesn't appear to be too different from the old Serene, but underneath the Serenata is very different. This is now a 3G phone with HSDPA high-speed data, capable of download speeds of up to 1.8 Mbps, so you can enjoy streaming multimedia downloads. It also supports tri-band 900 / 1800 / 1900 GSM which means that you're unlikely to see the Serenata in the US. The old Serene was surprisingly poor when it came to multimedia playback, but the new Serenata can cope with MP3, AAC and WMA audio plus various types of DRM (digital rights management). The big speaker and advanced B&O audio system should mean that the Serenata is an exceptionally capable music player.
but one that ultimately offered very little apart from looks. You'll be glad to know that the Serenata is a hugely improved phone.If you had seen a picture of the Samsung / Bang & Olufsen Serenata a year ago, you would assume that this was the Apple iPhone, because it's certainly more music orientated than the Apple device even if you ignore the iPod-esque selector wheel.At 136 grams in weight and 110 x 63 x 20mm in size, the Serenata is a fairly big phone. Talktime is about 3 hours with up to 12 days standby time. When used solely as a music player, the Serenata has 13 hours playback time on the wired stereo headset or 5 hours over the speaker.