Samsung's newest Armani phone appear

Armani is cooking-up a new designer mobile for fashion conscious punters, although it doesn't look like the slimmest we've seen.

Seemingly a pre-requisite for any fashion phone nowadays, the slider (officially titled the SCH-W8200) comes with a golden edged finish and the Giorgio Armani logo proudly displayed below the screen.

Other specs for the handset are actually pretty decent for a luxury handset; a 5-megapixel camera, 3.1-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, HSDPA connectivity, Bluetooth and microSD support all make an appearance.

The report at SamsungHDBlog.it also reports an on-board DMB TV tuner, but we're presuming that this will be removed if the W8200 ever makes it to our shores. Other specs, such as GPS and accelerometer support, are currently unknown.

Pricing and release details haven't been released yet by Samsung, but with such official looking pictures of the handset we imagine that the launch probably isn't too far away. Whatever the final cost, we're sure that the Armani badge will ensure that this phone runs to a pretty penny in comparison to its spec-rivals.