World's Most Expensive Mp3 Player

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)."

Have I missed something?

[Fatchap]

How much does it cost? Or does the fact that I am asking mean I can't afford it.

Re:Have I missed something?

[LunaticTippy]

Hm, article says "price not disclosed yet."

I'm wondering how it became the "world's most expensive mp3 player."

That photograph...

[antdude]

... is tiny!

I beg to differ

[argStyopa]

Um, from TFA:

TrekStor has recently decided to produce a limited series of this magnificent gadget for those who would buy the most expensive mp3 player in the world. A price has not been disclosed as of yet.

How is it the "most expensive" if they haven't set a price?

Personally, I think this: http://www.automobilemag.com/auto_shows/naias_2005 /0501_volkswagen_passat/ [automobilemag.com] is the world's most expensive MP3 player, at about $40,000.

Doesn't even use RAM, it's a friggin' cd player.

I never understood why

[artifex2004]

people strive for the gaudiest, most expensive and wasteful things they can('t) afford.

Re:Ogg support!

[Theatetus]

IRiver just put out a great 1-G player with Ogg support...

...wait for it...

...that doesn't use USB mass storage and instead only uses the proprietary MPT only available on Widnows XP.

So, they supported oggs, and then cut off the one section of the market that gives a damn about oggs... now they'll probably point to the slow sales of the model and say, "see? people don't want ogg".

Re:Morons

[Phat_Tony]

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.

Nooooo

[nightsweat]

That's the world's most expensive crap glued ONTO an MP3 player.