14 DAY TRIAL // I know what you are going to say. This GoldVish Limited Edition handset is yet another phone having a lot of precious stones all crammed up on its surface, a phone that looks pretty much like a big platinum sock. And, unlike the time when I stood up for Vertu's Racetrack Legend Series, I couldn't agree more.
Yes, it pretty much has all what a precious stone lover would want from a cellphone and quite a lot of what a not so picky mobile phone user would need in such a device. But, and I'm pretty mad of myself for saying this because I haven't thought this time would come in the near future, this is a handset that doesn't give me even the smallest chance of defending it of all your criticism (or mine).
I have to repeat myself here and I apologize in advance for it. I know what you are going to say! A phone that ugly doesn't even deserve to be protected in any way even if it would have the best spec sheet available on a mobile device on the face of the Earth. And, once again, I couldn't agree more!
At least, they got something by making it. The Swiss company got a place in the Guinness Book of Records as being the makers of the world's most expensive phone ever created. A good spot for them because the 1 million Euros they charge for it really is as expensive as a phone might get for the next couple of hundred years.
What about that? The makers of the world's most expensive phone! I suppose this thing should have been overlooked and the guys from the Guinness Book should have handed them the title of "Makers of the World's most ugly mobile phone". Now that is a place well deserved for them :).
Enough with the "being mean" stuff for now and let me tell you what the GoldVish handset has related to the phones we use every day. It is a quad-band cellphone shaped as two socks stuck together (sorry, I couldn't restrain myself), with GPRS and EDGE technology support, wireless Bluetooth connectivity, a 2 megapixel digital camera, an FM radio, an MP3 player and a set of stereo speakers to listen to music at, a 262k colors TFT display working at a resolution of 176x220 pixels and a 2 GB SD memory card, all of these ready to ship to the home of the lucky phone lover that wants to spend 1 million Euros on a piece of ... platinum sock inlaid with lots and lots of precious stones. That doesn't seem very appropriate for a (ugly) phone selling at such a ludicrous price isn't it?
I was mean with the poor handset and I'm sorry for that. I really am and the single fact I can think of now (after this entire day spent laughing at the idea of having a 1 million Euros sock next to my ear and talking to it) is that this device doesn't deserve to be criticized as much as I did. It doesn't deserve many other things too, one of them being the chance to be BORN, if such a statement can be applied to a cellphone.
If it can be applied, than its mother must be a sock with a lot of jewelry inside and the father a handset ugly as it gets.