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Tag Heuer releases premium $6700 Android phone

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 03 Jul 2011 1:48 User comments (13)

Tag Heuer releases premium $6700 Android phone

Tag Heuer, the luxury watch maker, has released its own Android smartphone, one that commands a huge $6700 price tag.
The "Tag Heuer Link" has a very unique design and seems to be built very impressively, but under the hood most tech enthusiasts will not be too excited.

Running the outdated Android 2.2, the Link has a 3.5" TFT screen with Gorilla Glass, a 5MP camera, 256MB of internal memory (expandable to 8GB with included MicroSD).

Full specs from Tag:

Main characteristics
Size: 118mm (H) x 67mm (W) x 16.6mm (D)
OS: Android 2.2
Form factor: Bar type touch screen
Weight: 200 grams (battery included)
3G Talk time: 6 hours 30 minutes
Stand by time: up to 330hrs (~14 days)
Battery included: Li-lon 1400mAh



Messaging
SMS / MMS / Email (Predictive Text Input XT9)
Image formats supported: JPEG / GIF / BMP
Sound formats supported: MP3 / AAC / AAC+ / RA / WMA

Connectivity
Stereo Bluetooth
AGPS, Wifi, WAPI
Compatible with any SIM card

Radio
Edge & HSUPA (3G)
4 Band GSM/Tri Band WCDMA

Music / Photo & Video
Internal memory: 256 MB
Memory card: 8GB
Music play time: 11 hours

Photo & Video
LCM Screen: TFT 3.5”
Screen resolution: 800*480 pixels – 16 millions of colors
5 Mega Pixel Camera Auto Focus
Video player and recorder

Applications
Android Market with up to 250 000 applications such as:
Adobe Flash Reader
Google Search, Google Maps
GMail , You Tube , E-Blogger

Phone Materials
316L Stainless steel, Gold, Diamonds, Black PVD, Titanium, Rubber, Calfskin leather,
Carbon leather, Alligator and Lizard


For the design, however, you get a fully shockproof body that is "as airtight and locked-down as a strong box."






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13 user comments

13.7.2011 01:52

Low performance/features and overpriced, I thought only Apple products did this.

23.7.2011 03:38

Now: Android has a phone for the rich people, while the iPhones are being sold in Wal-Mart at discount prices

PS: It might feel like a scrap metal in my pocket and as ugly and out-dated as the iPhone 5.

http://www.iphone4jailbreaks.com/iphone-5-what-could-be-iphone5-pic.html

This message has been edited since its posting. Latest edit was made on 03 Jul 2011 @ 4:13

33.7.2011 03:49

Originally posted by mike.m:
Low performance/features and overpriced, I thought only Apple products did this.
LoL...they charge $900 for analog wristwatches that are not as accurate as a 5-year-old free watch from Taco Bell; clearly outdated BS "technology" is what their customers want. I am amazed that these phones are so cheap...

A Tag Heuer watch that is no better than a $5 watch from Wal-Mart costs $900...that is 180x more than it should cost.

These phones are something like a $50 econo phone with a $20 leather case and they are charging $6700...that is less than 100x more than it should cost. Good thing they didn't make a $600 phone; they would have to charge $50,000 for it!

43.7.2011 12:30

I want to know who on god's green earth has the disposable income for this tripe? $6700? A mid life crisis means buy a car or get a concubine, you know, something you can drive for a while... you can't even talk on this thing.

I thought the whole idea for showing off the fact that you have no peter & a huge bank role for compensation was to actually have something worth being unobtainable by others, not just something grossly overpriced to be overpriced.

That's like the old Minny Pearl character from the Grand Ol Opry... She was the comedian that always wore the price tag on her clothing so folks knew what she spent on the items... But that's what the JOKE was supposed to be.

So the individuals buying these things are what are in charge of our financial infrastructures across the nation, retirement funds, the housing bubble, health plans, corporate business models, entertainment finances & logistics, the cars we are basically forced to choose from & drive and vote on the laws that we're supposed to obey, but they get to dissmiss at a whim... They buy this crap?

Now ponder me this... We're supposed to follow these people's advice and rules? Any of you folks that have read my "rants", do you smell a revolution or is that my 80s brain on drugs again?

53.7.2011 15:18

looks awesome.. but would like to have better spec xD

63.7.2011 17:46

LOL it runs 2.2!

74.7.2011 01:52

Ill keep the money and save it or build many computers for that amount of cash.

84.7.2011 02:33

Originally posted by LordRuss:
I want to know who on god's green earth has the disposable income for this tripe? $6700? A mid life crisis means buy a car or get a concubine, you know, something you can drive for a while... you can't even talk on this thing.

I thought the whole idea for showing off the fact that you have no peter & a huge bank role for compensation was to actually have something worth being unobtainable by others, not just something grossly overpriced to be overpriced.

That's like the old Minny Pearl character from the Grand Ol Opry... She was the comedian that always wore the price tag on her clothing so folks knew what she spent on the items... But that's what the JOKE was supposed to be.

So the individuals buying these things are what are in charge of our financial infrastructures across the nation, retirement funds, the housing bubble, health plans, corporate business models, entertainment finances & logistics, the cars we are basically forced to choose from & drive and vote on the laws that we're supposed to obey, but they get to dissmiss at a whim... They buy this crap?

Now ponder me this... We're supposed to follow these people's advice and rules? Any of you folks that have read my "rants", do you smell a revolution or is that my 80s brain on drugs again?
Calm down...you can't do anything about it. Fighting them only makes them stronger...just sit back and wait for the economy to fail 100%; these people will be hanged by their $10,000 belts when the riots start.

94.7.2011 10:21

Originally posted by KillerBug:
Calm down...you can't do anything about it. Fighting them only makes them stronger...just sit back and wait for the economy to fail 100%; these people will be hanged by their $10,000 belts when the riots start.
You're right, but they're too egotistical to hang themselves. If they were that conscientious they'd have done it when the market last went tits up. I suppose I'll just have to have the last laugh when they crawl to me after the zombie onslaught?

104.7.2011 16:04

Originally posted by LordRuss:
Originally posted by KillerBug:
Calm down...you can't do anything about it. Fighting them only makes them stronger...just sit back and wait for the economy to fail 100%; these people will be hanged by their $10,000 belts when the riots start.
You're right, but they're too egotistical to hang themselves. If they were that conscientious they'd have done it when the market last went tits up. I suppose I'll just have to have the last laugh when they crawl to me after the zombie onslaught?
I think he meant the rioters will hang them.

115.7.2011 07:11

"A fool and his money will soon part."

125.7.2011 09:42

Originally posted by Azuran:
I think he meant the rioters will hang them.
That "and" they're too egotistical to do the right thing and hang themselves... is that better?

138.7.2011 14:23

I'll just laugh when I see on the news that someone got shot dead after being robbed over this total POS. ;)

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