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Motorola goes for the gold (and diamonds)

Peter Aloisson had a hard act to follow: himself. After all, it's not every day that a designer is so inspired to come up with something like the "Diamond Crypto Smartphone," which went for a cool $1.3 million.

So rather than try to exceed his already-over-the-top standard, he apparently has decided to go for a broader market with the Motorola V3i "Stainless Steel Gold" handset. The phone still has plenty of diamonds--855, to be exact, weight 3.8 total carats--but it's far more reasonable in price: Just $10,000. And if you're … Read more

Ring, ring? No, bling-bling!

If I had known the price of an unlocked Dolce & Gabbana Razr V3i was going to drop to about $350 from $700, I would have held out and bought that phone instead of the Razr V3 I ended up getting. Granted it's only gold-plated, not solid gold, but it still makes some kind of fashion statement. Best of all, I can just swap out the SIM card from my current Razr and slap it into this D&G Razr and instantly become blinged out. Now if I could just get a gold-plated MP3 player...

T-Mobile goes for the bling

When Motorola launched the Razr V3i Dolce & Gabbana, the most ridiculous thing about it wasn't its brash gold skin but rather its sky-high $400 price tag. After all, it was just a regular old Razr. The only difference was it came with a label and a Dolce & Gabbana cell phone dangle.

But now there's good news for anyone itching to flash the device on the street but lacking the necessary dollars to make it happen. As of today T-Mobile now offers the phone for a somewhat more reasonable $300 with service.

Interestingly, though, the Dolce & … Read more