"Diamond Crypto Smartphone" for the rich and paranoid

by Chris Ziegler, posted Jul 15th 2006 at 12:52PM

Thought we admire diamond encruster extraordinaire Peter Aloisson and his previous work, it suffered the same problem as other million-dollar cellphones have in the past: not enough cryptography. Happily, Russian firm JSC Ancort has developed a Windows CE-based smartphone ready for Aloisson's bejeweling that employs "powerful encryption technology" to "provide secure protection of information against kidnapping, technological blackmail, financial racketeers and corrupted state officials" -- sounds like marketing speak for a password-protected wallet app, but who are we to judge? Of course, with its $1.3 million price tag and 50 diamonds (10 of which are blue) we think you might start to have more trouble with mugging than with "technological blackmail," but there's only one way to find out for certain -- anyone want to donate the cash for a hands-on?

[Via textually.org]

Filed under: Handsets, Others

Tags: aloisson, ce, cryptography, Culture, dollar, encryption, jsc ancort, JscAncort, million, windows ce, WindowsCe

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-_- @ Jul 15th 2006 3:41PM

ah, yes, another toy for the obscenely wealthy who wish to rub their cash in other people's faces than to donate it to a charity that could probably do a million more things with the money than some dense idiot ever could.

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Mobile Reviewer @ Jul 15th 2006 9:15PM

From the other hand - why not? if you have a money, this toys for you.

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