{"id":519350,"date":"2010-04-07T10:53:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T14:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=28917"},"modified":"2010-04-07T10:53:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T14:53:59","slug":"stuart-hughes%e2%80%99-prive-phone-proves-money-can%e2%80%99t-buy-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519350","title":{"rendered":"Stuart Hughes\u2019 Priv\u00e9 Phone Proves Money Can\u2019t Buy Taste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28918\" title=\"500x_gold-phone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/500x_gold-phone-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"Shiny\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" \/> Is your StarTAC looking run down? Does it not draw the attention that it once did? Clearly, it&#8217;s time for an upgrade. Don&#8217;t let the technology of recent decades cloud your\u00a0judgement\u00a0when choosing your new phone. Think&#8211;and I mean <em>seriously think&#8211;<\/em>about the time when talking on a mobile phone was at its most\u00a0impressive. That&#8217;s right, I mean all the way back to 1983. What better way to truly impress your board-room buddies than with a literal homage to the golden era of\u00a0telecommunication?<\/p>\n<p>Do not be fooled by the exterior: while clearly based on the Motorola DynaTAC8000X of yore,\u00a0the 22ct gold, diamond-encrusted exterior houses all the modern marvels you would expect from a phone released in 2010. That&#8217;s right, <a href=\"http:\/\/stuarthughes.com\/newdawn\/product_info.php?products_id=82\">according to the website<\/a>, it supports not only WAP and Text SMS, but also a COLOR SCREEN. My how the last 27 years of progress have just flown by!<\/p>\n<p>Only 10 of these &#8220;Priv\u00e9&#8221; phones will be created by designer Stuart Hughes, and at \u00a3139,995 ($212,400), I guess that kinda makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5511428\/the-humble-brick-phone-gets-updated-with-22ct-gold-and-diamonds\">Gizmodo<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/7Jihh10Dql1H_QYpXUgiTjfvw5U\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/7Jihh10Dql1H_QYpXUgiTjfvw5U\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/7Jihh10Dql1H_QYpXUgiTjfvw5U\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/7Jihh10Dql1H_QYpXUgiTjfvw5U\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=IBgsdB2O3ho:EKzyWRkjFVA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=IBgsdB2O3ho:EKzyWRkjFVA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=IBgsdB2O3ho:EKzyWRkjFVA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=IBgsdB2O3ho:EKzyWRkjFVA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=IBgsdB2O3ho:EKzyWRkjFVA: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>Is your StarTAC looking run down? Does it not draw the attention that it once did? Clearly, it&#8217;s time for an upgrade. Don&#8217;t let the technology of recent decades cloud your\u00a0judgement\u00a0when choosing your new phone. Think&#8211;and I mean seriously think&#8211;about the time when talking on a mobile phone was at its most\u00a0impressive. That&#8217;s right, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519350","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\/6653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}