Pharrell tires of gilded BlackBerry, targets iPhone next

by Chris Ziegler posted Dec 13th 2007 at 7:41PM

Remember Pharrell Williams' solid gold BlackBerry 8700? Well, it turns out there's this little problem with coating your electronics in gold: they become obsolete long before the gold does. No worries, though; when you're Pharrell, exchanging that ancient piece of RIM kit for something a little more en vogue is as simple as pulling out the pocketbook. As you might imagine, Pharrell's newly yellowed iPhone is no fewer than 18 karats in purity, but unlike other phones in his collection that suffer from some amount of signal degradation, this one maintains the black plastic piece on the rear for reception's sake (now why you'd actually want to make calls on this as opposed to, say, just looking at it, we have no idea -- you'd have to ask Pharrell). No word on just how much coin was exchanged for this little surgical procedure, but we're pretty sure we don't want to know.

Filed under: Handsets, Apple

Tags: apple, Culture, gold, golden, iphone, pharrell

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mrmuzak @ Dec 13th 2007 8:30PM

i wonder which tariff he's on . ???

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Michael LaFramboise @ Dec 13th 2007 8:50PM

sigh... even all the money in the world cant buy good taste...

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michael andres @ Dec 13th 2007 9:05PM

he looks blazed as hell

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Eric @ Dec 13th 2007 9:19PM

So sad...all that money and you waste it in doing this to electronics.

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paul34 @ Dec 13th 2007 9:41PM

Good thing he did, because with as how bad the iPhone's reception already is, he would completely kill it if he put gold on the bottom portion.

It's pretty much the fatal flaw of the iPhone. Despite that, I keep using mine because I love it enough. RF reception is an art; obviously something Apple is very, very newbie at. Maybe they should have talked to Sony Ericsson or Nokia about it...

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Elias C. @ Dec 13th 2007 11:10PM

Or HTC. HTC's latest models seem to be almost unbeatable when it comes to reception.

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GL @ Dec 13th 2007 10:06PM

Well I guess this goes to show how smart those rappers are that everyone worships!

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Joe Price @ Dec 14th 2007 2:51AM

Such a sad trend of hip-hop nouveau-riche. No money in the world will ever buy them class and good taste.

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Supah @ Dec 14th 2007 10:14AM

It would be a waste to you all cause you dont make nearly how much money he or these other rappers make, If you look at the amount of money he has and the amount of money it cost to make youll see it proportioned to an amount that he can afford. As well Im positive he didnt have to pay retail value for it.

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