LG to launch Prada II
LG Electronics said it has once again united with Prada Group to launch an enhanced version of its touchscreen handset before the year ends.
Having a full metallic ‘QWERTY’ keyboard, It features on-screen call and hang-up buttons. Prada II also has some wonderful features like 3G compatibility with video calling, 7. 2Mbps HSDPA, full HTML browser, 5 megapixel camera with Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens, video calling and Wi-Fi accessibility.
Besides supporting the media format, the upcoming Prada phone is equipped with a 3 inch 400×240 touchscreen. It includes MPEG-4, H.263 and H.264 formats, music in AAC, MP3, WMA and RealAudio.
Prada II will be first made availble in UK, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Spain.The Phone would cost around 600 Euros ( 810 Usd ).
Sean Connery the New Face of Louis Vuitton
The former Agent 007, who has just turned 78 is the new face of the Louis Vuitton’s ‘Core Values’ campaign.
Sean Connery has returned to modelling for a special portrait by Annie Leibowitz, the American who photographed the Queen in March 2007 and who is widely regarded as the world’s top portrait photographer.
Connery’s photoshoot took place near his home in the Bahamas. He is wearing a Panama hat, long-sleeved, polo-neck sweater which reveals not an inch of torso and chinos rolled up to show just a glimpse of hairy leg. At his feet lies a waterproof version of the Louis Vuitton iconic ‘Keepall’ travel bag.
The Louis Vuitton brand is launching their campaign just before the release of the latest Bond installement.
Vuitton’s director of communications Antoine Arnault said “We are extremely proud that an actor of such immense stature should have agreed to participate in Louis Vuitton’s Core Values campaign. This wonderful portrait, which captures all Sir Sean Connery’s legendary allure, is bound to have a tremendous impact.”
“I wish I looked like that at 78 years old,” Arnault said. “He’s sexier than ever.”
Past promoters of the core values campaign include Keith Richards, Francis Ford Coppola, Catherine Deneuve and Mikhail Gorbachev.
Samsonite Shining Silver by Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen’s already conspicuously acclaimed work for Samsonite’s Black Label business luggage will get two new highlights.
The avant garde ribcage Hero piece and the small hard-side crocodile skin textured upside trolley will get a futuristic limited edition shining silver.
Created with Bayer, one of the world’s largest producers of polymers and high-performance plastics, the bags’ shiny silver coating feature a special UV resistant mirror paint that won’t crack or scratch.
The luggage will be available at Samsonite boutiques worldwide from November 2008.
10 Most Tragic & Untimely Deaths in Rock and Roll History
On the night of 8 December 1980, Lennon was shot four times in the back by Mark David Chapman outside the musician’s New York apartment. Lennon had autographed a copy of Double Fantasy for Chapman earlier that same night.
Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977 at his home Graceland in Memphis.His girlfriend at the time, Ginger Alden, was asleep in his bed when he died. It was she who discovered the body.
On April 8, 1994, Cobain’s body was discovered at his Lake Washington home by an electrician who had arrived to install a security system. Apart from a minor amount of blood coming out of Cobain’s ear, Smith reported seeing no visible signs of trauma, and initially believed that Cobain was asleep until he saw the shotgun pointing at his chin.The coroner’s report estimated Cobain to have died on April 5, 1994.
Early on September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix died in London.He had spent the later part of the evening before at a party and was picked up by girlfriend Monika Dannemann and driven to her flat at the Samarkand Hotel.
“When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild, and freak out an’ do anything they wanna do.”
Joplin died on October 4, 1970 in Los Angeles, California.John Cook, one of her band members, became alarmed when she didn’t show up for the recording session and after unsuccessfully trying to reach her by telephone, he went to the hotel, broke down the door and found her dead.
Morrison died on July 3, 1971, aged 27.He was found in a Paris apartment bathtub by Courson.
“Death makes angels of us all, and gives us wings, where we had shoulders, smooth as raven’s, claws”
Mercury died on 24 November 1991 at the age of 45 in his Kensington home.
He died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami, Florida on the morning of May 11, 1981.His final words to his son Ziggy were “Money can’t buy life.”
Cline died in a plane crash in March 5, 1963, in a forest just outside of Camden, Tennessee, only 90 miles from the destination.
Redding, his manager, the pilot, and four members of The Bar-Kays were killed when his chartered Beechcraft plane crashed into Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin, on December 10, 1967.
My name is Bond, James Bond
Quantum of Solace continues the high octane adventures of James Bond. Daniel Craig-starring Bond film to come out on 14 November.
Looking back on Bond franchise now, it’s easy to see why we all enjoyed the Pierce Brosnan Bond films at the time.Pierce resurrected Bond in 1997 with a stunning performance in Goldeneye.He was certainly the best looking Bond of the modern age.
Timothy Dalton never really caught on as Bond and inadvertently caused the death of the franchise until 1997.Roger Moore first made his debut in the classic Live and Let Die in 1973 and was hailed as a an adequate successor to Connery’s Bond.Roger’s cheesy one-liners that everybody enjoyed over the previous couple of decades.
Sean Connery was and probably still is the guy who made all the girls go weak at the knees, Maybe it’s the accent that does it, but when he first appeared in Dr No. in 1962 and uttered the immortal line “My name’s Bond…James Bond”.
Now the Question is: Who is your favourite Bond?
