Vodafone Launches Swarovski Crystal Clad Phone

As mentioned by Patrick Chomet, Group Director of Terminals for Vodafone, "I am delighted to be adding further diversity to the Vodafone own branded device range. From fashion-influenced mobiles to business tools, these new handsets will give our customers stylish, contemporary and great value choices.This new range of mobile phones will offer features such as a touchscreen experience and services like the mobile internet to a broad base of both European pre-pay customers and customers in emerging markets, many of whom will be using them for the first time."

This collaboration of luxury brand Swarovski with Vodafone is said to be bringing this handset embedded with 126 precision-cut crystals. According to the Austrian company said the fashion phone, called the Vodafone 533 Crystal, has been designed using a special coating to the Swarovski crystals which will definitely add to their brilliance. Together with a crystal-inspired theme and an animated start-up display, Vodafone 533 is all set to rule the list of fashion phones. There are many mouth watering features that this phone has been equipped with namely a 2.0-inch color screen, 1.3-megapixel CMOS camera, MP3 player, FM radio, Bluetooth and external memory slot.


Although the price of Crystal phone has not yet been disclosed by Vodafone, the release time in the UK is somewhere near Christmas. Luxury brands have joined hands with handset makers in the past as well. Examples include Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Giorgio Armani, Prada, and even Danish audio maker Bang and Olufsen, Swiss watch maker Tag Heuer and Italian sports car maker Ferrari, have all released phones. A tattoo-inspired phone with vintage clothing brand Ed Hardy was also announced by Sony Ericsson early last week.