The million dollar cellphone

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]

[Mark @ May 17th 2006 1:16PM]

That's just dumb.

[Chad Arsenault @ May 17th 2006 1:17PM]

Has anyone noticed that the caption for this phone on GoldVish.com translates into "The Million of the Night"?

[johnnyspliff @ May 17th 2006 1:21PM]

Geez
Who would pay this much for a phone?
What if it gets stolen?
Obviously you would take out insurance on it, but still...

[Scabies @ May 17th 2006 1:24PM]

yeah? how about the service plan/mo? $2k starters, add a family member for $500, unlimited texts for $500, data not included

[Ryan @ May 17th 2006 1:28PM]

somewhere, paris hilton is thinking, "must have!"

[Stellar Developer @ May 17th 2006 1:42PM]

How bored do you have to be to build a million dollar cellphone o.0 ?

[Gr1zz @ May 17th 2006 1:48PM]

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.

[detroityianni @ May 17th 2006 1:56PM]

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

[Perrey Z. @ May 17th 2006 1:56PM]

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!

[brian @ May 17th 2006 1:57PM]

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.

[natx @ May 17th 2006 2:02PM]

I have two of these.

[iai @ Nov 21st 2006 9:06PM]

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!

[SugarDaddy @ May 17th 2006 2:06PM]

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.

[Matt Chanoff @ May 17th 2006 2:16PM]

Rich people by million dollar jewelry, watches, cars, paintings, etc. regularly. Why are you all so up in arms about a cell phone?

[cracka @ May 17th 2006 2:18PM]

will boost mobile carry this? it is surely going to be the official phone of the rap community.

[Gr1zz @ May 17th 2006 2:21PM]

Once i have a million to burn on a cell phone....I probibly wont need one anymore.

[Templedog @ May 17th 2006 2:24PM]

Wow... they can coat a cell phone with diamonds, but they can't make a cell phone -last longer than 5 years- go technology.

[Bernie @ May 17th 2006 2:35PM]

Man! This thing has Bluetooth?!?! I'm in!

[adm @ May 17th 2006 2:36PM]

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.

[Brian from Texas @ May 17th 2006 2:45PM]

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!

[Brian from Texas @ May 17th 2006 2:46PM]

On second thought... I'd kick my own ass!!!

[Don Wilson @ May 17th 2006 2:46PM]

They can slap diamonds on anything and say it's worth a million. Who cares?

[Jason @ May 17th 2006 3:08PM]

It's a phone for morons who think diamonds are worth something, which they are not.

[Ultim8fury @ May 17th 2006 3:10PM]

Does it have a matching bluetooth headset cos I can't see this being paired with a cheapy plastic job.

[Brent @ May 17th 2006 3:10PM]

This is nice, when Mrs. Diva Pop Star throws her million dollar phone at the help, it boomerangs back to her!

[Steve Austin @ May 17th 2006 3:10PM]

Remember when $6 million could buy you a Bionic Man? Now it will buy you cell phones for the family and your two mistresses.

[Baumann @ May 17th 2006 3:28PM]

when a call comes in does the phone go "bling bling"?

[kjsr @ May 17th 2006 4:52PM]

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.

[Travis Jenkins @ May 17th 2006 5:32PM]

The hilarious irony to this phone is that it only operates on Verizons "Pre Pay" network. Even rich people have bad credit...hehe...

Arcanic - Guk Server - Everquest 2

[Rick @ May 17th 2006 7:38PM]

That is one fugly phone.

[geoff bolton @ May 17th 2006 8:40PM]

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.

[russ @ May 17th 2006 10:48PM]

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.

[The Beef @ May 17th 2006 11:31PM]

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..

[Jeff @ May 18th 2006 9:10AM]

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.

[John Mudd @ May 18th 2006 11:14AM]

We linked to this at PropertyMaven (http://www.propertymaven.com/2006/05/million_dollar_cell_phone_for.html).

[Airwalker @ May 21st 2006 1:19PM]

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!

[ditch @ May 23rd 2006 5:06AM]

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 ^_^

[iai @ Nov 21st 2006 9:08PM]

who agrees with me?

[joe @ Jul 27th 2007 2:53PM]

thts just stupid i mean people are starving in the world and we are making stuff like this i mean its retarted

[JAC @ May 9th 2008 2:13PM]

Ever wonder how a diamond is cut and polished? Check out this great video...

http://www.eurostardiamond.com/diamonds/index.html

[BB @ Aug 12th 2008 11:00PM]

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....

[BB @ Aug 12th 2008 11:02PM]

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....