{"id":420843,"date":"2010-03-12T13:29:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T18:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=27813"},"modified":"2010-03-12T13:29:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T18:29:42","slug":"200000-blackberry-takes-gaudiness-to-a-whole-new-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/420843","title":{"rendered":"$200,000 BlackBerry takes gaudiness to a whole new level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/expensive_blackberry_front.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"expensive_blackberry_front\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27814\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If I lose my phone, it&#8217;s a bad day. If this guy loses his phone, he just lost the equivalent of a CEO&#8217;s salary.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/hypebeast.com\/blog\/brandonchang\/2010\/03\/most-expensive-blackberry-phone\/\">Brandon Chang<\/a>, the ridiculous piece of absurdity you see up above is wrapped in 18 karat gold. Because that wasn&#8217;t enough, they then went and glued on 4,150 itty-bitty diamonds, ensuring that you can see just how tacky it is in even the lowest of lights.<\/p>\n<p>The final price tag? $200,000 bucks. If you&#8217;ve got that sort of money to throw around, more power to you &#8211; but really, there&#8217;s a line between &#8220;impressive&#8221; and &#8220;obnoxious&#8221;, and this is a few miles past it.<\/p>\n<p>[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackberrycool.com\/2010\/03\/11\/200k-blackberry-curve-8900-with-4150-diamonds-wrapped-in-18k-gold\/\">BlackBerryCool<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/03\/12\/200000-blackberry-takes-gaudiness-to-a-whole-new-level\/expensive_blackberry_back\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27818\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/expensive_blackberry_back-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"expensive_blackberry_back\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-27818\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/5hpV8ouijzwG4oGKqzBFmfS21es\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/5hpV8ouijzwG4oGKqzBFmfS21es\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/5hpV8ouijzwG4oGKqzBFmfS21es\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/5hpV8ouijzwG4oGKqzBFmfS21es\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=XFvYkaa0YiE:dA8clPIA58o:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=XFvYkaa0YiE:dA8clPIA58o:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=XFvYkaa0YiE:dA8clPIA58o:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=XFvYkaa0YiE:dA8clPIA58o:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=XFvYkaa0YiE:dA8clPIA58o:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I lose my phone, it&#8217;s a bad day. If this guy loses his phone, he just lost the equivalent of a CEO&#8217;s salary. According to Brandon Chang, the ridiculous piece of absurdity you see up above is wrapped in 18 karat gold. Because that wasn&#8217;t enough, they then went and glued on 4,150 itty-bitty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}