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.
posted Dec 13th 2007 7:41PM
i wonder which tariff he's on . ???
sigh... even all the money in the world cant buy good taste...
he looks blazed as hell
So sad...all that money and you waste it in doing this to electronics.
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...
Or HTC. HTC's latest models seem to be almost unbeatable when it comes to reception.
Well I guess this goes to show how smart those rappers are that everyone worships!
Such a sad trend of hip-hop nouveau-riche. No money in the world will ever buy them class and good taste.
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.
wow...could you please spare us the crappy news stories. The last thing I want to see is another rapper with more money than class.
Isn't it Christmas and isn't there a kid family somewhere who could use that money to have a better day...or EAT.
Nah screw that. Let's post a picture of some idiot's mug with his bling'ed out iphone.
Hey Engadget! Is this newsworthy?
Maybe he should have brought 6-12 of them like non hip hop entertainers like actors or rockers apparently like to do. Buying them at volume, he'd "class" himself up a little. Of course, non of them actually pay full price.
UGLY ! looks like Chinese iPhone
Did he coated the screen too?:)