iPhone 3GS Supreme is diamond encrusted, spectacularly expensive

Seeing as how the iPhone's exclusivity status has been slipping, it was inevitable that the bourgeoisie would invent a new way to distinguish themselves from the lowly masses. Enter a designer by the name of Stuart Hughes, already expertly familiar with slapping precious metals onto slightly less precious mobile phones. He classes up a 3GS handset with a 22 carat solid gold body, which he then sprinkles with no less than 190 diamonds. And just to make sure none of the riff raff can get their hands on it, this creation is priced at £1.92 million ($3.2 million), which places it precisely £1.92 million outside our budget. Completing the, erm, value proposition is a storage chest cut from a single block of granite, which you may peep after the break.

[Sheppard Posted Nov 27th 2009 3:57AM]

Disgusting obnoxious amount of money, anyone who buys one of these needs to be bludgeoned to death with it

[ROFL Posted Nov 27th 2009 3:59AM]

+1, for you speak the truth.

[loocas Posted Nov 27th 2009 5:26AM]

iPhone is getting more and more towards the Vertu field.

- Useless? - check
- Extremely expensive? - check
- Douchy? - check

[Tim Brown Posted Nov 27th 2009 6:11AM]

@Sheppard Anyone using this thing in public will get bludgeoned to death for it. I know that I would happy bludgeon some one to death for this crime against gadget kind. The added bonus is that you get something to sell on, once it has been melted down and removed the scar from the face of the earth.

[wack Posted Nov 27th 2009 11:58AM]

@Sheppard

what would only make it a more fitting end, if they dropped it beforehand, nothing like spider shattering the screen of a phone that for the same price you could have bought an island.

[Comment Posted Nov 27th 2009 12:15PM]

Will it blend?

[iandean Posted Nov 27th 2009 3:59AM]

They'd also need to be stupid. The metal will block out pretty much all of the wireless signals

[ROFL Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:00AM]

Remember, this isn't being marketed as a practical device; more of a fashion statement. Although it looks like horse dung.

[Sisyphus Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:06AM]

@(Unverified) If you're in the states there'd barely be a signal to block anyway.

[iandean Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:19AM]

@ROFL

If i want a fashion statement I'll wear a diamond necklace from Graff, not a phone i cannot use.

[iandean Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:22AM]

@ROFL

If that were also the case, they'd be better off diamond and gold coating an ipod touch. Theres even a lump of black plastic there to keep it fuctioning

[conscious Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:10AM]

The case looks like a coffin, where the buyer can place their deceased common sense.

[Vlad Savov Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:18AM]

@conscious Nice. I have to express my regret at not having come up with a line like that myself.

[Anku Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:52AM]

@conscious Agreed. Nice one.

[Donald Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:12AM]

Donald Melanson says: ...and still no removable battery.

[niakpliak Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:13AM]

anyone else already got theirs preordered? heard it comes with a student discount!

[venomwebhostcom Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:19AM]

Well that pretty much guarantees if they loose the phone they are not getting it back... lol

[cadmium910 Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:21AM]

Nice to see the Liver Building on there

[Funke Tobias Dr Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:26AM]

If you're thinking about ordering one of these, beware. When James Bond goes looking for super-villains, you're sure to receive a visit, and just maybe, some lead.

[kakashi6992 Posted Nov 27th 2009 9:53PM]

@Funke Tobias Dr that was the most unfunny thing ive ever heard in my life ....downrankeddd

[JapanCAT Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:27AM]

多么难看的的机器，我为你感到难过。

[Funke Tobias Dr Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:35AM]

是

[magallanes Posted Nov 27th 2009 6:41AM]

@JapanCAT

its say :How ugly the machine, and I feel sorry for you.

[Tres Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:32AM]

This is tacky as shit, it looks like someone just went and got a metallic gold case for an iPhone and glued a bunch of fake plastic jewels onto the front. Anyone who saw this in real life would think the same.

[GalM Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:37AM]

That's about the same price for the regular iphone 3gs here in Israel...

[rederikus Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:38AM]

And underneath, it is still a CrApple with a single tasking OS, non-removable media storage and battery.

[Doc Izzy Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:43AM]

Hope I'm behind this a-hole in line at the Genius Bar when they tell him this invalidates his warranty.

[blitzkrieg Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:45AM]

That price tag for something that'll be obsolete within a year (probably even less)?! What if you drop it in water? Then what? It'll just be a really really expensive piece of sh*t you can't even use.

Rich people don't have to prove anything by purchasing diamond-encrusted everything. Just get a regular iPhone and donate the rest for something that will progress society (or Africa). Not saying that buying expensive stuff is wrong, but this the tip of the iceberg. It's disgusting.

[CrocodileJock Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:48AM]

Or it's FREE on a $50,000 a month plan from AT&T, unlimited voice, email and web* (subject to a fair usage policy).

[skullhead65 Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:54AM]

I guess the designer/manufacturers think that people losing their homes, jobs, and whole life savings is just a fluke or only affects a small percentage of the population.

[genomecop Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:56AM]

Its still an Iphone.

[Saauron Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:59AM]

Want to 1up your friends who bought the "I Am Rich" App?

Want to be a douche, but passively letting impoverished children starve just doesn't cut it?

Do you fantasize about giving Steve Jobs a quickie HJ in the back of a Genius Bar?

Then the iPhone 3GS Supreme might be for you!

[Crisdorya Posted Nov 27th 2009 5:26AM]

Now jailbrake that!

[wings100 Posted Nov 27th 2009 7:06AM]

I don't know who the bigger idiot would be, the out-of-touch moron who built this complete waste of faddish nothing or the brainless self-absorbed narcissistic fool that shells out $3.2M for a phone that will quickly be outmoded in a technology sector that changes quicker than changing underwear. :-O

[randomelginguy Posted Nov 27th 2009 7:29AM]

Just one question, does this void my warranty?

:)

[Fredster Posted Nov 27th 2009 8:26AM]

I can see these phones flying of the shelves in Dubai at the moment

[Tangible Posted Nov 27th 2009 12:53PM]

@Fredster : Have checked the news today? Dubai is going bankrupt.

[Fredster Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:20PM]

@Tangible

Dude, that was sarcasm, thanks for getting it

[Pies Posted Nov 27th 2009 8:36AM]

That's how I feel about people buying Macs ;)

[shukero Posted Nov 27th 2009 9:37AM]

LOL, that looks soooo ugly it's ridiculous. it's already a fail for being an apple, but now it's an epic fail.

[iLuvvGoogleAndroidz Posted Nov 27th 2009 9:37AM]

disgusting. plain disgusting.

[TheBrizz Posted Nov 27th 2009 10:02AM]

This is for people who have more dollars than sense... it's that simple.

[Toxic Posted Nov 27th 2009 10:06AM]

It looks ugly. =)

[John H Posted Nov 27th 2009 10:47AM]

"And for some reason they only used the 16 GB version..."

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 27th 2009 12:01PM]

anyone thinking Cash for Gold?

[DownBringer Posted Nov 27th 2009 12:15PM]

Surely it would be the aristocracy that would need to find some way to separate themselves from the bourgeoisie and proletariat, with a diamond encrusted iphone.
Just for reference the bourgeoisie is the middle classes, so i think the reporter may have been mistaken when he used the term, because a diamond encrusted iphone is very much something that would belong to someone with more wealth than sense (upper-class).

[McKirdy Posted Nov 27th 2009 1:16PM]

I'd rather use no case, or the recession case if I must.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/16/case-mate-offers-0-99-iphone-recession-case-a-day-after-rece/

[bgphoenix Posted Nov 27th 2009 2:40PM]

Let's see that get under a bus....

[ominx Posted Nov 27th 2009 4:24PM]

The price is not that bad actually considering everything they are offering. I mean it's UNLOCKED and we all know that isn't free.

[B2barb Posted Nov 27th 2009 6:08PM]

Contest?!?!?!?