This is the AE+Y Aesir phone. It's gorgeous, isn't it? Usually for a 'We Love Fridays' we'll go with an crazy expensive gorgeous pair of heels but this week, I felt like something a little different and I just recently heard about this new phone. 


The AE+Y phone is made to last, a surprising fact for any piece of technology these days. In fact, each piece of the phone is designed to be re-serviced and then put back together. It has a sapphire crystal lens and the screen is coated to be scratch-proof. The keys are unique in that they are not set in like other phones but are an edge to edge key design, specially produced so that they don't fall out. It also has 220 hours of stand by time, superior voice and sound quality- impressive, no?

Guess how much this phone costs. Go, ahead- take a guess! Do you have a number in your head? I guarantee you, you are wrong. 

This phone is EU$42,000. Now, for that money, you're probably thinking, 'What?! That phone also better be able to wash my car, take my dog for a walk and cook dinner.' Sadly, it does not. In fact, this phone contains only the basics- call, text, calculator, alarm. Here's the kicker- it's made out of gold! Even if you did miraculously have the money for this pricey gadget- you probably wouldn't get one- only 25 gold phones will be made in 2011. 

Personally, while having a phone made out of gold would definitely make me feel like a badass James Bond villian, I don't think I would ever shell out this much for such a basic phone. 

Would you? If you had $42,000 at your disposal- what would you do with it?  

(images via develop3d.com, bellybillboard.com)