For Over $3000, HTC One Comes in Gold and Platinum
GoldGenie encases the HTC One in gold or platinum. SIM unlocked and Beats audio earphones thrown in to sweeten the deal.
When you buy a phone, you always take into consideration the build material used. Subsequently, more expensive materials are often used on phones for added value, such as the aluminum body on the HTC One. There are some who want to go even further than just better build materials, and what screams out "filthy rich" more than a gilded phone?
GoldGenie has obviously noticed the small market nook for those who want a phone to have status beyond its technology. It has given us a 24ct. gold plated HTC One for a mere $3,100, with the platinum HTC One coming in for slightly more at $3,200. Naturally, you expect more than just a bit of rare metal on the phone's body for that price, so the company has ensured that the phone is unlocked. The SIM-free smartphone comes with some Beats audio earphones, and the final package has a lovely box to envelop it all.

For those who want some more gilded items, the company can also embellish your Wii, tablet or even golf club. Don't get fooled into a bad deal though, as you can get a 24ct. gold plated iPad for a mere $10,000, as we have seen before in Dubai. Normally, we would recommend a case for the phone to protect the soft gold plating, but if you are buying a nice looking phone, why would you want to cover up your money's worth? Yet again, we are left with an age old question: Can money really buy you class?
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And I believe this is the 2nd or 3rd redesign? Yeah because there was one time when every old school member had a join date of 1970. Well, I didn't even exist during that time, since my parents would have still been in Junior High!
$3200 with wooden box, take away wooden box and that phone price slashes in half.
I'd prefer we base our technology on synthetic materials with far superior properties that we have the ability to produce in sustainable abundance and ecological balance in mind. Injecting latest science into the picture and state of the art methods of production (both of which are 60 to 100 years ahead of anything we presently use), we wouldn't be able to recognize ourselves from a technological point of view.
Only in Capitalism do you see usage of rare Earth materials for idiocy such as this - especially since we had the ability to produce superior synthetic derivatives.
And for what? For some fictional notion of 'status' that is apparently only relevant in the minds of psychopaths that cling to an outdated way of doing things.
But then again, the socio-economic system is based on artificially induced scarcity and doesn't work for betterment of Human lives - so this is exactly the kind of garbage (both in technology and resource waste) you can expect.