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World's Most Expensive Mp3 Player

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the horribly-disgusting dept.

An anonymous reader writes "TrekStor, a German manufacturer of MP3 players has developed the world's most expensive MP3 player. This unique custom-made portable player is based on TrekStor's i.Beat organix mp3 player, and has one GB of memory, 25 hour battery life, supports MP3, WMA, WAV, ASF, OGG audio files, and is cast in 18 carat gold with 63 diamonds (one carat)."

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  1. Bah. by Malor · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can have my slightly-beat-up 40g iPod, with a tired battery, for TWICE that price.

    There.... 'most expensive' didn't last that long. :)

  2. Grammy Bling by wiz31337 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally an MP3 player I can wear to the Grammy Awards!

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  3. Huh? How can it be the "most expensive"... by Fallen+Kell · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... when they havn't even ANNOUNCED the price? How do they know it will cost more then the Sun Enterprise 10000 that is sharing out MP3 files which are then decoded on a SunRay Thin Client and played for me at my desk? Huh? Huh? Riddle me that Batman...

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    1. Re:Huh? How can it be the "most expensive"... by thefirelane · · Score: 5, Funny
      when they havn't even ANNOUNCED the price

      They have a price matching + 1 policy.

  4. Morons by Locke2005 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I could gold-plate a cow turd to create the most expensive cow turd in the world... but that doesn't make it any BETTER than any other piece of shit out there! Same goes for this MP3 player...

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    1. Re:Morons by Phat_Tony · · Score: 5, Insightful
      No kidding. As far as I could tell, there was NOTHING fancy about the player. In fact it only comes with 1 GB of RAM, where Apple's already been selling ones with 4 GB for a while now.

      If I were going to get the most expensive MP3 player, I'd want it to start with about 100GB of flash, and then come up with some other innovative features too. Maybe an FM tuner and both XM and Sirius tuners, along with recording/time shifting their content. Video and photo capability. Maybe HD video out? Or really high audio quality and support for some good lossless encoding scheme. Come on, do something impressive.

      Otherwise, I think anyone with that much money to waste on an MP3 player and jewelry would do a lot better buying a gorgeous watch and an iPod Nano. I mean, why get something gold plated and jeweled that's going to be obsolete in a few years anyway?

      Of course, maybe that's the whole point- to really show off your wealth, you need to not only indulge in conspicuous consumption, but stupid conspicuous consumption. You don't buy fancy expensive stuff that's high quality and will last, you buy fancy, expensive stuff that's low quality and disposable. That'll really show off how rich you are.

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    2. Re:Morons by Lispy · · Score: 4, Funny

      Not impressed until I see one made of mithril!

  5. Ha! by plopez · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think the Elbonians go them beat. Esp. if you count in the cost of the tractor needed to move the Elbonian MP3 player...

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  6. Re:Interesting paradox by networkBoy · · Score: 4, Funny

    /. poster.
    by miles.
    -nB

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  7. Ha by Reality+Master+101 · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know that Apple and Steve won't take this lying down. Just wait for the next product announcement. Apple WILL have the most expensive and overpriced technology, or Steve will personally scream at people until he does!

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  8. Fromt TFA... by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 5, Funny

    When asked what market they were targeting, the german company replied, "Paris Hilton."

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    1. Re:Fromt TFA... by Hogwash+McFly · · Score: 5, Funny

      Brings a new meaning to the term 'market penetration'...

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  9. Re:Stupid by ivan256 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hmm, 63 diamonds that add up to 1 carat... 1/63 carat diamonds are not rare, artificially so or otherwise. There are about $4 worth of diamonds in this MP3 player, if that.

    It never ceases to amaze me how much people will pay for things that have tiny chips of diamond on them if they're told the chips add up to a carat. If the size of the diamond is less than a half carat, and you're paying multiple digits of dollars for it, you got ripped off. (I mean moreso than if you buy a multi-carat diamond at the going rate.)

    If this MP3 player is gold-plated and has diamond chips in it, it's likely that they raised the manufacture cost by $20 or so... If it's cast in gold (like the article says, but I don't believe them), that's another story, but we'd have to know how much it weighed before we could jump to price judgement.

  10. Same old story by Keith+Russell · · Score: 5, Funny

    No platinum. Fewer diamonds than a Victoria's Secret bra. Lame.

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