Even BlackBerry isn't immune to blinging up its phones with a little gold.
The slowly recovering smartphone maker has created a very limited run of a black and gold edition of its flagship BlackBerry Passport smartphone. The phone is functionally identical to the regular model, except the normally silver-colored rim and keyboard "frets" are colored gold. It also has the words "Limited Edition" engraved on the side, along with the production number. It also costs $899 ($999 in the company's native Canada).
BlackBerry is only making 50 of the Black & Gold BlackBerry Passport. In a blog post, BlackBerry Director of Content Marketing Eric Lai said a few hardcore BlackBerry fans had already gone to great lengths to trick out their BlackBerrys in gold. Lai cited a story that described how Drake altered his BlackBerry Classic with 24-karat gold plating to the tune of $3,000. Read more...
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