The $54,000 diamond-crusted Samsung SPH-E3200
Just when you thought the buzz about diamond-studded gold-plated luxury cellphones was dying down, the mother of them all goes up for auction on a South Korean site—it's currently going for about $54,000 (the auction's got four more days). Step aside Mobiado, Vertu, et. al.; Choi Moon-young, the phone's designer, claims he had 10 designers and engineers working for three months to build the 240 diamond-encrusted, gold-set cellphone, "the world's most precious mobile phone." That's all well and good, but couldn't they have at least gone to greater lengths than just beefing out the already before-blinged EVDO-enabled Samsung SPH-E3200?
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quanta @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
What is the point of jewelled mobile devices? You'll throw it out (or lose it) in 2-3 years anyway.
cafn8 @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
10 Designers and Engineers working for 3 months for THAT? Somebody get me his Human Resources Dept. That's the kind of cushy job I'd like to have.
Jim Phelps @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
The consumers who buy these should pay for three children to health insurance for 3 year instead. They would feel better about themselves and then maybe they wouldn't need a $54K cell phone just to make them feel like they are worth something.
Oops. There I go. Being rational about gadgets. When will I learn.
- jjp
vampirical @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
Or you know paying for all those same children's actual medical expenses instead of forking it over to an insurance company...and you know with the saved money maybe feed a couple hundred Ethiopians.
Talk Sense @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
Sticking a few diamonds on a plastic mobile phone is just about as tacky as you can get, like sticking a porsche body on a ford fiesta. At least the Vertu phones are engineered quality.
robert kim @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
Ya realize that 0.2% of the world owns 90% of the worlds wealth (a demographer can correct me - its just an estimate i overheard)... so what do they have to loose... besides ... if they wanted to upgrade their cell phone... they probably have a jeweler that will custom bezel their new i730 with the same stones..... besides... diamonds are a fair investment. :o)
bob