Nokia Unveils 8600 - Glass Enclosed Mobile

Nokia has always liked experimenting with designing their phones in quite unique shapes or with trend-setting materials like chrome, stainless steel and titanium. They have now unveiled the Nokia 8600 Luna, which has been precision engineered from glass.

The 8600 is a slider phone that has a rather unique opaque smoked glass as the keypad cover. Since it is glass, the keypad beneath glows slightly to add to the design. Nokia’s uses a single micro-USB port for charging, audio and data connectivity. Since the 8600 is Quad-band GSM phone it can be used almost anywhere. It’s also equipped with a large display and a 2-megapixel camera.

“An obsession to every detail marked each step in the development process of the Nokia 8600 Luna. We took painstaking effort to ensure that the experience delivered by every surface - from the smoothness of glass against the face to the warmth of stainless steel in the palm to the superior tactile feedback of the keypad - would surpass any and all expectations,” said Heikki Norta, Senior Vice President, Mobile Phones, Nokia. “Even the name holds special significance. Much like the Nokia 8600 Luna that we named in her honor, Luna, the goddess of moonlight, was often represented by the Romans as a mysteriously captivating beauty encircled in a soft, yet radiant light."

The Nokia 8600 Luna is expected to be available during the 2nd quarter of 2007 but where and the exact amount has not yet been divulged.

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