The ultra-expensive BlackBerry is sold only in the UK and Middle East
Looking for a way to prove that you have more money than you know what to do with? Look no further than the BlackBerry Porsche Design P'9981, a $2,400 smartphone that helps the world identify you as "that guy who just spent $2,400 on a cell phone."
The specs of the BlackBerry itself aren't nearly as impressive as you'd expect for a phone that costs about what the average U.S. worker earns in a month. What you get for your money is a 2.8-inch, 640 x 480 touch screen (for those keeping score, smaller and lower resolution than the iPhone 4S), a 5-megapixel camera and 720p HD video recording (the iPhone 4S offers 8-megapixels and 1080p), and 768MB of RAM. In other words, the ridiculously expensive smartphone looks obsolete when put next to a phone that came out three months ago.
The phone is hardly the most expensive we've seen — a Danish retailer released a $60,000 cell phone last year, and Tag Heuer offers a $6,700 leather Android smartphone. And what do you really get for your money? The Porsche name, an admittedly cool design, and higher-quality construction.
Our advice? Your money would be better spent buying 12 iPhone 4S's and throwing 11 of them in the trash.
BlackBerry via Engadget
This article was written by Fox Van Allen and originally appeared on Tecca
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