The million dollar cellphone

by Evan Blass, posted May 17th 2006 at 12:56PM

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]

Filed under: Handsets, Others, GSM, GPRS, EDGE

Tags: $1,000,000, 18k, 2gb, bentley, bluetooth, boomerangs, cameraphone, diamond-encrusted, digital zoom, DigitalZoom, emmanuel gueit, EmmanuelGueit, gold, goldvish, handsets, luxury items, LuxuryItems, million dollar cellphone, MillionDollarCellphone, mp3, overpriced, vvs-1

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MNEMESIS @ May 17th 2006 1:07PM

Obscene...

-M.

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Donald @ May 17th 2006 3:19PM

Coming soon to Cingular for $350 on a 2yr. Amazon will have it free within a month.

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elusha @ May 17th 2006 4:16PM

you see ice cube with it in his next video....

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Razib Ahmed @ May 17th 2006 5:18PM

How about a $60 mobile phone set? Vast majority of Indians are using this kind of set and many of them pay even less than $10 for using the service. That is why perhaps within 2 years India will surpass USA in terms of mobile phone user base (http://www.southasiabiz.com/2006/05/india_surpassing_usa_as_a_mobi.html)
Really, many people are nuts to waste their money for such phones when they can do with just phone set under $100.

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Harrison @ May 17th 2006 7:29PM

The idea of money and value is all an illusion.

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robert3 @ May 17th 2006 8:32PM

Ugly and garish. What a waste of money and materials.

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anon @ Oct 18th 2007 12:22PM

It's not a waste -- whoever buying this would simply be giving his money to the people making it, who'll then spend it and transfer it back to the rest of society.

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Victr @ May 18th 2006 11:28AM

I wouldn't buy it for a billion dollars if I had the money to spend - I think it's hideous...

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Ethan @ Oct 18th 2007 2:08AM

...Costs more than a Bentley...

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Waltzon @ Oct 18th 2007 11:45AM

Let me thing... I can have this butt-ugly phone or a Bugatti Veyron. Or a Bentley Arnage T, a Continental GT Speed and a decent house... who in the hell would buy one of these? Please tell me that even 50-Cent is not that stupid.

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