The most expensive mobile phone in the world — costing more than £500,000 — is being made in Austria. The phone, designed by luxury accessories maker Peter Aloisson, has sections of pure gold as well as 2,950 blue diamonds embedded into the cover.
Aloisson has for the past few years been taking existing phones and customising them with jewels and precious metals. He currently produces about three phones per year, depending on orders from his celebrity and wealthy clients, mostly retailing for about £20,000.
The new phone is a special order for a German manufacturer, and although it is being constructed for marketing purposes, the phone will eventually be sold off.
Aloisson has for the past few years been taking existing phones and customising them with jewels and precious metals. He currently produces about three phones per year, depending on orders from his celebrity and wealthy clients, mostly retailing for about £20,000.
The new phone is a special order for a German manufacturer, and although it is being constructed for marketing purposes, the phone will eventually be sold off.
The world's most expensive phone number was auctioned May 2006 for charity in Qatar. The number, 666 6666, sold for 10m Qatari riyals or £1.5m.
The previous record holder was Chinese number 8888 8888, which sold for £270,000. The Cantonese word for eight sounds very similar to the word for rich. It was bought by Sichuan Airlines.
Having seven sixes as your mobile number might seem devilish to some, but interpretations vary. A brief dip into the weird world of numerology shows 666 is seen as holy in Judaism because it represents six directions — up, down, north, south, east and west. Others equate it with the Arabic word "ellah" meaning God.
On a techy note, the first Apple Computer sold for $666.66, the sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is w — so "www" shows how evil the internet is. And finally, Viagra has a molecular weight of 666.7g/mol.
Random Odds & Ends
- In the first month of Bell's telephone company's existence, only 6 phones were sold.
- When Bell's patent was 16 months old, there were 778 telephones in use.
- In Milan, Italy, the telephone company fines the operator when he or she dialed a wrong number.
- When Alexander Graham Bell died on August 4, 1822, all phones served by Bell system in USA and Canada went silent for one minute to honor him.
- The special tone available to users of Nokia mobile phones when receiving SMS (text) messages is actually the morse code for SMS.
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