How much would you pay for "the Bentley of cellphones"? $1,000? $10,000? Try a cool million bucks. This one-of-a-kind quad-band handset by Goldvish sports a blinding 120 carats worth of VVS-1 grade diamonds, according to designer Emmanuel Gueit, and as you'd expect from a seven-figure phone, features such amenities as Bluetooth, a camera with 8x digital zoom, MP3 playback, FM radio, included 2GB memory card and an EDGE connection (though curiously no 3G option or WiFi -- it seems a million bucks isn't what it used to be). For those of you not willing to drop such an obscene amount of money on a phone that even the designer likens to a boomerang, Goldvish also offers several other diamond-encrusted 18k gold models in your choice of rose, yellow, or white, starting at a much more reasonable $25,600.
[Thanks, Langer]
posted May 17th 2006 12:56PM
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i like love this phone...nd i juss got one...i totally love it....nd mine is in pink....the service is soo good....got to have it....
i like love this phone...nd i juss got one...i totally love it....ndmine is in pink....the service is soo good....got to have it....
That's just dumb.
Has anyone noticed that the caption for this phone on GoldVish.com translates into "The Million of the Night"?
Geez
Who would pay this much for a phone?
What if it gets stolen?
Obviously you would take out insurance on it, but still...
yeah? how about the service plan/mo? $2k starters, add a family member for $500, unlimited texts for $500, data not included
somewhere, paris hilton is thinking, "must have!"
How bored do you have to be to build a million dollar cellphone o.0 ?
If i had a mil to blow on a phone i would custom design it myself and use up all the money in R&D, and not encrusting a common cell phone with a custom case of stone.
Think multi cell carrier profiles
think total voice command
think satelite comm for my sailing trips
think hot-swappable battries
think remotely programmable by my IT admin at HQ.
i have one up on ebay right now for only 250,000 dont bid on it though email me for details on how to send me a payment through western union as i am in nigeria
What's a few precious stones here and there if the quality and technology of the phone is not there?
Rappers will dig this no matter what, yo!
The owner of this phone must surely be an asshole.
Question: How many armless children in Africa does it take to come up with enough blood-diamonds to make this one phone?
Maybe that crying child can be your screensaver, or the laughing rebels who contract out through deBeers.
I have two of these.
hey natx, you mean you have two of these cell phones,also how many people actually have the money to afford sompthing as stupid as t5his phone,its retared if you ask me!
Does this phone only exist for some arab sheik's daughter or wife? I can't imagine that even some american billionaire would spend that much on a cell phone as ugly as this. You'd have to find someone that was given their money. No self-respecting person who earned their money would waste it like this.
Rich people by million dollar jewelry, watches, cars, paintings, etc. regularly. Why are you all so up in arms about a cell phone?
will boost mobile carry this? it is surely going to be the official phone of the rap community.
Once i have a million to burn on a cell phone....I probibly wont need one anymore.
Wow... they can coat a cell phone with diamonds, but they can't make a cell phone -last longer than 5 years- go technology.
Man! This thing has Bluetooth?!?! I'm in!
it shouldn't, but I am continually amazed at what shitheads will continue to spend endless amounts of money for. dumbest thing...ever. wait...yeah, ever.
If you can afford it, you can afford to lose it. If I had one I'd kick somebody's ass with it. Now, that's bragging rights!
On second thought... I'd kick my own ass!!!
They can slap diamonds on anything and say it's worth a million. Who cares?
It's a phone for morons who think diamonds are worth something, which they are not.
Does it have a matching bluetooth headset cos I can't see this being paired with a cheapy plastic job.
This is nice, when Mrs. Diva Pop Star throws her million dollar phone at the help, it boomerangs back to her!
Remember when $6 million could buy you a Bionic Man? Now it will buy you cell phones for the family and your two mistresses.
when a call comes in does the phone go "bling bling"?
I've always wanted one of these. But then I'd have to hire a band to play a song everytime the phone was about to ring. No ringtone is good enough for a $1M phone. But then I'd have to take my band around with me everywhere I went. And THAT's just not worth the hassle.
The hilarious irony to this phone is that it only operates on Verizons "Pre Pay" network. Even rich people have bad credit...hehe...
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That is one fugly phone.
incredible!!! so it seems that 'lightweight', 'discrete' and 'tasteful' are no longer desirable factors in phone design... this takes the culture of 'bling' to revolting new heights - expect to see one featured in a "music" video one day.
guys, you want to set up some referrer id on that link, get yourselves 5% on every purchase.
bill gates does read this blog u know.
Just ordered one for my wife, my mom, my brother, my sister, my neighbor, and my cat sisi. You buy one the next few ones 50% off.. what a bargan. i'll take out a 2nd mortgage loan..
I wonder how much something like this would weigh. For $1.2 million, you could get John Williams to compose live for you when your phone rings for a few years.
We linked to this at PropertyMaven (http://www.propertymaven.com/2006/05/million_dollar_cell_phone_for.html).
The true funny thing here is when you consider how fast technology becomes obsolete. I bet that phone will be unusable in a few years. But, it's clear that even in a few months, the technology in that phone will be so out-dated.
What an investment!
heck no. for a million dollars, i'd get a phone that has:
802.11/b/g wifi/bluetooth/IR/GPRS/EDGE/3G
10MP camera (sounds like a good round number)
hydrogen cell batteries (where you just put in water and presto!)
cram a 100GB harddrive in there
have 256MB video mem/2Gig RAM
quad dual core HT 3.5ghz processors (sounds like itanium specs... ^_^)
.....
aaaahhhh nuf said... we'll never be contented ^_^
The hilarious irony to this phone is that it only operates on Verizons "Pre Pay" network. Even rich people have bad credit...
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who agrees with me?
thts just stupid i mean people are starving in the world and we are making stuff like this i mean its retarted