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A look at the new Lamborghini Android smartphone and tablet

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 11 Jun 2012 10:58 User comments (8)

A look at the new Lamborghini Android smartphone and tablet

Tonino Lamborghini, founded by the son of the famous automaker, has announced its latest line of "luxury" mobile devices aimed at the Russian market.
The company unveiled three phones and one tablet, although only one of the phones runs on Android.

Dubbed the Lamborghini TL700, the phone runs on Android 2.3, has a 3.7-inch WVGA sapphire crystal display, a 5 MP rear camera, a VGA front-facing camera, 4 GB of internal memory and a small 1,400 mAh battery. It is unclear what processor is in the device, but it said to be from Qualcomm.

While the specs are terrible by current standards, the device comes with a 90,000 RUB/$2,750 price tag. Why? The phone has a case made of gold and a back plate of crocodile skin.



The tablet, the Lamborghini L2800 has a 9.7-inch 1024 × 768 pixels sapphire crystal display, a 5 megapixel rear-facing camera, a 2 megapixel front-facing camera, 512 MB of RAM, 4 GB of storage capacity, a MicroSD card support and a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm processor. Just like the phone, the tablet runs on Android 2.3.

Lamborghini has priced the L2800 at 75,000 RUB/$2,290 although it does not have a gold case or croc skin.

Great pics via Russian site Hi-Tech:





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8 user comments

111.6.2012 11:22
deep2
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i want tablet

211.6.2012 12:38

I don't understand why these luxury phones are always outdated :s

311.6.2012 12:44

Originally posted by Morreale:
I don't understand why these luxury phones are always outdated :s
Cus people a few people out there are happy to pay for outdated hardware because its got x badge on it.

411.6.2012 19:25

the tablet looks better and yeah its dumb to offer crap specs all outdated including software

512.6.2012 14:41

Wow... Android 2.3... Too bad the phone/tablet doesn't run as fast as their production vehicles. For the premium price you should get equally premium performance. I mean that IS what you're paying for; or am I missing something again?

613.6.2012 03:46

Would it kill them to increase performance? those specs are awful. Seems like it wouldn't be that much of an extra burden considering whoever is buying the phone is buying pure gold and croc skin.

713.6.2012 13:27

Originally posted by Notcow:
Would it kill them to increase performance? those specs are awful. Seems like it wouldn't be that much of an extra burden considering whoever is buying the phone is buying pure gold and croc skin.
Exactly! It would seem to me that the only reason those damned things would go up in value would be the market in precious metals. Talk about a style of "bait & switch".
This message has been edited since its posting. Latest edit was made on 13 Jun 2012 @ 1:27

813.6.2012 17:05

It's almost unforgivable the specs that are in these devices. They could have sacrificed $100 margin or added $100 to the price and made them Android 4.0, quad-core, LTE, etc. If someone is going to pay $3000, they will pay $3100....

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