Gold plated phones or how to roll like an oligarch

Smartphones are more or less a status symbol. For some people, buying the most expensive smartphone available at popular retailers just doesn’t cut it. How can you show you make 100 times more than someone else when you have the same smartphone? Cars? Sure, but you can’t carry those in your pocket. This is where blinged out smartphones come in. Gold, leather, diamonds and Damascus steel are just a few of the materials you’ll find on those devices.

There’s a company called Caviar (very appropriate) that specializes in such phones and today we’ll take a look at some of its products. Not because ...