$8 Million iPhone Designed by British Jeweler Sold to Some Rich Guy

October 16, 2010 by GOT Staff

This is insane!

An $8 million dollar iPhone 4 went on sale this week. Two questions: One. Why on earth would someone want to pay $8 million dollars for a phone that is only worth a few hundred dollars? And two. What on earth does it take for a phone to be worth millions of dollars???

Peep the full story below:

The world’s most expensive phone was made by British jeweler Stuart Hughes and contains 500 individual flawless diamonds, totaling more than 100 carats.  The Apple logo on the rear of the device was formed using rose gold and the main navigation was made from platinum and holds a single cut 7.4 karat pink diamond. The gadget was specially made for a very rich Australian business man….and according to Hughes more than likely won’t be getting used much.

“It was a fantastic challenge and I am really pleased with the end result — the phones look superb Phones are so popular at the moment and this is the ultimate design for one. It was a very exciting project. The diamonds are rare and difficult to source, stones like that usually have a very long history. It is amazing that someone is prepared to spend £5 million on a phone, I doubt it will get used because it is worth so much money. It would be a disaster if it was ever lost.”

This guy must really have some cake. We hope he gets that thing insured!!

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  • lucille

    nice while people are starving in the world. what a waste.

  • Grecko

    Any of royal members of the royal families in Brunei or Saudi Arabia will already have a couple of this.

  • Janet W

    This man obviously has too much money.. how about spending it on helping others? like paying off my debt and mortgage?
    Geez.. isnt greed one of the deadly sins? thats over the top

  • Chris

    What a stupid waste of money. Diamond prices are inflated thru manipulation of the market. DeBeers controls an artificial scarcity on supply, pushing up prices while offering a fraction of resale value… anybody who’s ever tried to sell a used diamonds learns this fact. Why not just use artificial stones and send a big check to the Oppenheimer family?… or better yet, how about a charity who NEEDS the gift?

  • 4reel?/!

    y, the first thing u would have to buy after u buy the phone is a case to put it in so u won’t lose reception. so what’s the point?/!

  • Justyn

    by far the worst decision ever made….there is a lot more problems in the world that the 8 million dollars could have went to…If someone were to buy this phone they are complete idiots…dumbest idea ever…

  • Jason

    Apple Products sucks period Why would any idiot by a phone for $8 million dollars lmao

    • Kenny

      Truth is, he just sold diamonds worth $8million through medium of a cellphone. Take the diamonds away and the cellphone is worth nothing!

  • Anibeth

    Who needs a freaking 8 million dollars worth of garbage when i got myself a droid from Verizon that only cost me $200.00? I am sticking with Verizon for ever, and ever. Will never go to that worthless AT&T again. Their commercials are so misleading and are full of plain hot air. Maybe when Apple makes a switch from an overblown hype of hot air AT&T to Verizon, I will get myself an iphone. AT&T is a huge waste of money with their service and hyped up prices on their wireless phones. They often try to sell you added services you don’t really need and they send you junk mails at your expense. And who cares about landline service from AT&T. Really, it doesn’t make any difference whether you use Xfinity from Comcast or Virtual vonage. But AT&T is so filled with hot air that cable seemed like a better option than a worthless landline. Better luck next time, AT&T.

  • bob

    this guy is obviously is a retard with a small dingding!

  • Laura Sullivan

    There are homeless and hungry people in the world but there are people buying 8 million dollar phones. What does this tell us about the person buying this???? and the world we live in??

  • Anibeth

    @Jason: I completely agree with you You are right on the money. Why spend all of your money on a worthless piece of junk from Apple? Maybe when Apple merges with Verizon. Verizon will sell these phones LESS than what AT&T prices the overpriced iphone. I call these iphones, “YouPhony” , “MePhone” “MacPhone” “ShePhone” or ISuckIphone” LOL.

  • Navarro

    everybody knows if they had that much money they would buy one too, but it is retarded because its a fucking phone, but then again I’m not that rich lol.

  • Juliette Guirard

    This is SO disappointing that anyone on this earth would WASTE $8 million for nothing. We need to rise up and revolt against waste and lack of compassion for humanity. There is such struggling for basic needs across the globe. I lose all respect for people like this…and the many more that we never hear about but are acting the same.

  • brian

    I heard this guy was only worth 8.5 million and he spent 8 million on a phone lol

  • Roame

    @4reel?/!: ` AMMMMEEEEEENNNNN LMAO!!!

  • http://www.pennyondime.com edwin duban

    8 Million Dollar Iphone vs. Coin accidentally minted by US MINT on eBAY item number 110552228585
    The MONETLISA in Numismatist World.

  • Adie Joseph

    why nt make the body gold ,diamond lining and also tranparent???????????
    Absolute insanity

  • Kayl

    Seriously, who wakes up in the morning and thinks, “I’m going to design a phone that costs $8 million!” And, who would pay that much for an iPhone?? Or any phone?

  • Eric

    Who are all of you haters kidding? Like any of you would be donating or giving your money away to idiots like yourselves. Good for him, you all can suck it!

  • jess2u

    where can i buy this iphone ? i need to purchase a dozen for my housekeeper, please advise…

  • AKAL

    IS THIS THE ANTICHRIST?

  • z*dawg

    alright so the guy wants to spend 8 mil on a phone yeah the dude is probably retarded for wanting an iphone in the first place and one thats laced with diamonds waste sure but guess what its his money he can do what he wants with it if you don’t like it go become a millionaire and donate all your money to the homeless and hungry and the decrepit and the poor. till ya do that you don’t have any room to talk shit. and no i’m not some other rich guy out there but if the dude makes his money its his not yours stop tryin to tell people what to do with their own money

  • Daryl C. Collison

    I agree that this type of expenditure is such a waste and obviously the money could have been well spent helping a number of charities or persons. BUT it is his money and how he chooses to spend it is his business.

  • dr. johnsons ballsack

    Fuck this guy and everything and everyone associated with him

  • help me I’m homeless

    wHAT a DUMass.He should have purchased a 8million dollar brain,then maybe he would’nt be so STUPID.

  • http://Facebook.com/maddmarshinn maddison marsh

    8 million dollars! Whoahhh! Thatss alot of douhh for a Iphone…
    Itss absolutelyy a wonderful phone but, I could never payy that muchh foorr one! :)) Lmao! Whooahhhzess this is goin on my intrest blog..

  • GERALD

    YOU GUYS R SO LAME DO SOMETHING WITH UR LIVES AND QUIT COMPLAINING WHAT HE SPENDS HIS MONEY ON….MAKE URSELF 8 MILLION DOLLARS AND SEE IF U REALLY DONATE IT BUNCH OF WORTHLESS HYPOCRYTES

  • GERALD

    whats a interest blog?

  • iPhone

    Do you have any idea how many homeless people can be fed with $8 million…??
    Do you have any idea how many charities could use this $$ to help the people who NEED this help..

    But no… they decide to waste this $$ on a damn cell phone….

  • Apples beast

    Shut up and stop hating. The guy who bought it was smart enough not to donate to a bunch a people that will end up homeless again. He worked hard for his own money and he could choose to waist it on what ever he wants. ITs HIS money! And for the guy that made the iphone like that i got to say it looks gorgeous. He did a splended job with his work. Mostly by using the best wireless phone out thier right now in to such a nice piece of work. So stop hating all you, its not your dam money! ITS HIS.

  • JUDY

    NO, NAVARRO. WERE I A BILLIONAIRE SO MANY TIMES OVER, I WOULD NOT PAY 8 MILLION DOLLARS FOR A PHONE, ALBEIT A DIAMOND ENCRUSTED PHONE. WASTE IS STILL WASTE, JUST ON A PHENOMALLY LARGER SCALE. I GUESS THIS PERSON WILL JUSTIFY IT AS AN INVESTMENT, TELL HIMSELF THAT HE CAN DO WHAT HE WANTS WITH HIS MONEY. ALL THOSE THINGS MAY BE TRUE. GOD HELP ME AND ALL OF US WHEN IT COMES TIME TO GIVE A COUNT OF OURSELVES.

  • Dana

    Good for him, he made millions and doing what he wants with it., he’s my Hero “NOT”. All who have money to burn like that should follow the guy who created facebook (who donated $100 million to the school systems in the state he is from.)

  • Rich

    @Anibeth:
    you know there is definitely a iphone with verizon planning coming out

  • Brandi

    That is so wasteful.

  • angel eyes

    What a waste of money. Rich people have nothing better to do with their money, so they spend it on 8 million dollar phones that probably doesn’t even have reception in their mansion that is at the top of the mountain. LOL *…smh*

  • http://n/a Gail Vass

    Of all the things that could be brought with 8 million dollars an I phone would not be on the list , that is the stupidest thing i have ever heard of he just as well have taken the money and set a match to for all it is worth , he could have paid a messenger to deliver his messeges to whomever and still had money left over it was diffinately a poor judgement call or whatever but I would not have spent 8 mill on a pissy I phone., but thats me.

  • scott

    No one really “needs” a phone. All the money could be donated. His 8 mil is proportional to your 2 hundred. Why didn’t you donate yours?

  • rhon ipac

    TO MR RICH GUY|:CAN I BORROW 100DOllar?LOL……8m to 100 dollar?MAYBE NOT THAT BAD……but if you read this comment hope u understand what i mean….

  • http://deausenellen@yahoo.com elena de ausen

    marvelous and amazing he made things everyone interested to look for it

  • Matt

    i guess this is the soo called “recession” that everyone is in.

  • Yasmina

    wow…..just wow… i mean those 8 million dollors could’ve went and helped many…i would’ve gotten lots of deeds than one sin. that guy should just stuck with his jewelery

  • HAhahahahahahahahahahaha

    What a retard. What if the new version of the phone comes out, or what if the phone broke or something? Guess that guy haven’t thought that up through,.

  • Go Tribe

    This is news? Apple products are way overpriced and overhyped so I’m not surprised to see one priced this high.

  • Jonny

    now what they need to do… after beating the crap out of that dude for spending that much money on a phone… is to copy that design by making it out cheap plastics. Create the same look, colors etc. Make it ‘look’ like that phone, without the insane price. After all, it does look nice. If it were practical and cost friendly to where someone might actually use it. It would probably sell well.

  • http://yahoo.com Monte

    All you people that mock this individual are idiots. There is nothing that says he owes you or I anything. It is his/her money and may spend it any way he/she well wishes to do. Maybe you all ought to try to get a better job or try harder to be successful. So quit your whining, move on pay your own mortgages. If you spend more time trying to better yourself instead of thinking someone you do not even know owes you something are a bunch of indoctrinated losers. I work hard for my income and I am tired of people like think I should share my hard earned wages to support the LAZY. So grow up and shut up. From a angry tax payer.

  • anthony

    ok 1st of all, the guy who made it was a complete dumbass obviously! the guy that bought it is even more of a dumbass because he coulda give the 8 million to family members, or if the family memebers are rich he coulda give the 8 million to people that need house’s, food, cloths, stuff like that. but all the guy is going to do is look at a thing that he bought and cant use. this stuff just goes to show how stupid people are in this world. shit, if that guy can give 8 million on a i phone i wonder how much will he give me for my samsung flip phone! lmao

  • Michael

    @Ja net W: You sound as though the feel the world owes you…What socialized country are you from, the new one currently being formed by our leader — King Obama???

  • Michael

    @Laura Sullivan: Should we just become completely socialized, and let the governemtn take over???

  • ron

    “this guy is obviously is a retard”? You’re the one to talk.

  • Jimson cua

    this guy whoever he is, is a very selfish bastard to waste so much money on cellphone. God there a lot of people out there that are dying in hunger. why not just donate the money to these people.

  • ge huston

    just one word…….SUCKER

  • Jimson cua

    Monte whoever you you focking moron we are not lazy.we work so hard that there is little time for us to sleep at all.I work the deadshift its from 8 in the evening to 8 in the morning everyday except sundays. your lucky you idiot bastard that i didn’t know you.

  • John johnsonson

    @Janet W:
    He made his money, he can spend it however he wants. this is the foundation of capitalism. Go pay your own mortgage. Ignorant communist.

  • http://facebook.com kellysweetsugar^^

    oh my god!! this is amazing!!

  • http://facebook.com jhonsonmarquez25

    fantastic..

  • http://gossipointhis.com ayeshjamil

    oh my God. thtz realy unbelivable….. y he didnt spnd his money on poor people of his country????????? he z jst mad……… m amazed.

  • http://gossipointhis.com ayeshjamil

    he z jst mad.

  • woah

    why would all of you disagree with this person? if all of you have $8m each, i dont think you will all donate your money to charities. it is his money, not yours. maybe this person has already donated a lot to charitites. we dont know this person yet many are criticizing..

  • Diana

    I think i would just let the man spend his money the way he wants to. BUT like the lord said it is easer for a camel to go through an eye of a needle then a rich man to get in to heaven. Enough said. Just remember envy is a sin also so stop envying him and do something with your own lives.

  • mike Hohmann

    Stuart Hughes is obviously gay

  • BestPersonInTheWorld

    How about he donates it to an auction for charity?

    People with this kind of money make me sick.

    Children die everyday because they don’t have $2.00 for food or basic medicines for a cold and they die…

    Then here come some jackass with an $8mil iPhone…. the guy needs a swift kick to the face.

  • stupidass

    hey stupid can you bring your 8 million dollars to haiti? since there, they can’t even buy food while you buy one phone worth more than the worth o f my city?

  • Nikki

    This is so pathetic!..Makes me sick on the stomach. It is so time for the economic collapse…

  • http://gossiponthis.com/2010/10/16/8-million-dollar-iphone-sold/ huang

    That’s a Big money you waste for the one thing that you don’t need for your everyday life!!!!
    i think if you are a golden heart you need to give the money for the poor families………

  • http://aboutanime.info blueobelix

    THIS cellphone is NOT for you dumbasses poor people!! This cellphone is for rich people wich have to show their richness to the others… a bigger price means bigger power wich means … this type of things makes the difference betweet rich normal people… and very rich people..
    kthxbye

  • Love

    for real what do people use phones for anyway? to connect right. so why id this idiot spend so much money on a frigin’ pphone

  • bobby

    you all r pretty stupid ( what about hungry people in the world) boo hoo if yall were filthy rich
    you would also have an 8 million dollar cell phone to if you give the poor and the hungry money
    they won’t have to fend for them selves give em an inch and they will take a mile dumb @sses

  • Rick

    I want two… :-) I wouldn’t give anything to charity….. I would rather have the phone. Maybe Sprint or Verizon…but I would settle for ATT… Maybe I would want a matching case… How about I get three….no four…no….shoot…now I’m all confused on how many I want….or what I was buying. Let’s start over….I want one !!! No Twooo…

  • Jo Marie

    WOOW!!!! IF YOU KNOW DIAMONDS.. THIS IS A GREAATTT INVESTMENT!!!! ONLY 8 MILLION FOR I KNOW WELL OVER 100 KARATS??? NOW… FOR THAT PINK BEAUTY IN THE MIDDLE. 7.4 SIZE!! I KNOW THAT A BLUSH OR A PALE PINK COLOR DIAMOND GOES FOR 200,000 A KARAT.. THIS ONE IS 7.4!!!!!!!!! COME ON!! THATS A STEAL!! THATS 1.48 MILLION JUST FOR THAT ONE STONE!!!!!!!! NOT! COUNTING THE OTHER 500 SINGLES… KEEP THAT FOR YOUR WILL OR YOUR GRAND KIDS.. IT WILL BE WELL OVER WORTH TRIPLE THEN WHAT YOU PAID FOR IT!!! KUDOS TO WHOEVER BUYS THIS!!! :)

  • paulo

    lol! i’m not gonna say “you should have donated the money to charity” coz if i were as rich as he is i won’t too, maybe a fraction but not $8m.

  • lloyd raynes

    Make no mistake about it anyone that has worked hard enough to earn enough to afford an 8.5 million dollar phone owes nothing to anyone. I am sure that the previous posters here have purchased things that the poor and hungry of Appalachia think may be extravagant and that money could have been spent on food. So all of you that said he should have fed the poor I ask…….How many (if any) of our poor are you feeding and what toys have you given up to feed them…….you dont need 8.5 million to feed one hungry person…….you are as greedy as he…..just not as good at it.
    There is nothing wrong with being greedy other than what you do with it…….So how about 8.5 million of you jerks just giving one dollar to feed the hungry in the USA.

  • Howard

    Nice to see Liverpool’s iconic ‘Liver Buildings’ with the Liver bird perched on top, probably cost a lot less than 5 big ones to build at that!

  • Sandy

    Whoever the “Rich Guy” was that bought it may have plenty of money, but it must have been inheirited because he sure doesn’t have any brains!!! That’s beyond crazy!! Even if I had all the money in the world I’m sure I could find more important things to spend it on. Just think how many homeless people $8 million could have helped!!!!! The guys a first rate moron!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/dogsareimportant Misty

    See, this news shows that if u have money you can survive with your life…. Money can buy everything. When you have money everything you want can be in your hand…., anyways if I were that rich guy, ill just use fake jewels and donate that $8M to the poor ones, in that case you’re spending your money to help others, well i’d rather donate it than buying a luxury phone…. !!!! As if….

  • http://www.facebook.com/dogsareimportant Misty

    @Chris: Ya,i agree….

  • Sara

    This man must be really crazy to spend such huge money on a single phone………there are many other better ways of spending it……

  • Sara

    @ Sandy : Ya man thats true

  • http://EZ-Laptop-4U.blogspot.com Duit

    To a billionaire $8 mil is nothing compares to the satisfaction of having such a handphone.

  • http://aboutanime.info blueobelix

    @Duit: your’se right so…
    go and DONATE YOUR MONEY TO CHARITY…(SO FUTILE) IF I HAD 8 MILION DOLARS NOW… I WOULD BUY THIS CELLPHONE!!

  • Lorena

    @AKAL: excact thing that came to my mind!

  • dsehaun

    wow wtf

  • Joe

    And I’m trying to pay my bills…..Some people are so stupid….When I had money i didnt blow it….

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