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Luxury iPhone 4s, iPads a great idea for well-heeled givers
Looking for a Christmas gift that is so unique that only a handful of people on the planet will find it beneath the Christmas tree? If you happen to have a wad of cash burning a hole in your pocket, then you might want to contact luxury electronics designer Stuart Hughes.

Liverpool, UK-based designer Hughes recently created a £5,000,000 ($7.9 million) rose gold and diamond encrusted iPhone 4, but he has a bargain available for holiday gifting. For a mere £39,995 ($63,200), you can pick up one of ten iPhone 4s that have had the everyday glass back replaced with materials from a 65 million-year-old T-Rex tooth and a meteoric stone. This lovely iPhone has a bezel made of 8.5 carat diamonds, and the Apple logo is made of platinum and diamonds.

If you miss out on picking up one of these iPhones for whomever you're trying to impress, you can always pick up one of the luxury iPads that Hughes has designed. The Supreme Fire iPad (£109,995, $173,814) is made from a 64GB 3G iPad draped in 2.5 kg of 24 carat gold. If that seems like it would be a cheap gift for your loved one, you can always upgrade to the £299,995 ($474,053) Solid Platinum iPad Supreme Edition. The casing is made of 2.7 kg of pure platinum, encrusted with 173 diamonds weighing in at 85.5 carats.

For many of us, these products are slightly out of reach, but we have video on the next page featuring Mr. Hughes and some of his earlier designs for you to drool over.

[via C omputerworld UK]
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Luxury iPhone 4s, iPads a great idea for well-heeled givers originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 11 Dec 2010 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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iPhone could be the financial survivor in Android and Windows Phone 7 war

Needham & Company analyst Charlie Wolf believes that the iPhone could emerge as the big survivor as Android and Windows Phone 7 battle it out in a race to the bottom. Wolf expects that Google and Microsoft will be battling aggressively to keep phone makers building devices with their respective software platforms and those manufacturers will probably slash prices in an attempt to get market share. The result is expected to be significantly decreased margins for everyone but Apple. This could mean a scenario similar to the computer market where commodity Windows computers hold the vast majority of the market, Apple uses its highly polished products to stay far and away the most profitable computer maker.

In a new research note to investors, Wolf declared that the launch of Microsoft's new phone OS has been successful despite what appears to be very slow sales after less than two months on the market. According to Wolf there were 135,000 active users of the Windows Phone 7 Facebook app, which he sees an indicator of sales in the absence of actual numbers from Microsoft. Wolf expects the Windows numbers to grow as a result of Microsoft spending a substantial amount of its $500 million phone marketing budget on keeping phone manufacturers and developers in the fold.

While Android is roaring along with 300,000 activations a day right now, it is expected to take a hit if and when the iPhone arrives on Verizon's network. However, what Wolf doesn't really address is how AT&T will respond to losing Apple exclusivity. It's possible that it will put more of a push behind rival systems, helping them to increase their share at the expense of some profitability for the manufacturers and OS developers.
iPhone could be the financial survivor in Android and Windows Phone 7 war originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 11 Dec 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Daily Deals for December 11, 2010
If you've been waiting for a price drop on the gorgeous Mirror's Edge, you're in luck! The running/jumping/sliding game is only a buck today. There's also a holiday edition of Cut the Rope for free, which we mentioned yesterday. Our own Mike Schramm prefers Cut the Rope over Angry Birds, but we're getting him some counseling. Thanks to dealnews.com for these deals (and the ones you see to the right under our Tip of the Day).
- iTunes Music Store: Cut the Rope: Holiday Gift for iPhone / iPad downloads for free
- Logitech: Logitech Ultimate Ears SuperFi 3 Earphones for $35 + free shipping
- Western Digital Store: Western Digital Store coupon: $20 off $100 or more + free shipping
- iTunes Music Store: Tiki Totems Premium for iPhone / iPod touch downloads for free
- iTunes Music Store: The Temptations "Silent Night" MP3 Track downloads for free, more
- iTunes Music Store: Mirror's Edge for iPhone / iPod touch downloads for $1
- iTunes Music Store: Drawn: The Painted Tower for iPad downloads for $5
- Walmart: Western Digital 1TB USB External Hard Drive for $75 + free shipping
- Dell Home: Dell 23" 1080p Widescreen LED LCD Display for $135 + free shipping
- TigerDirect: Toshiba 40" 1080p Widescreen LCD HDTV for $450 + free shipping
- iMate: KEYDEX Compact iPad Stand for $14 + free shipping
- US Appliance: Samsung 55" 3D HDTV w/ 3D Blu-ray Player, more for $2,099 + free shipping
Daily Deals for December 11, 2010 originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 11 Dec 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Delta Airlines to install gate-area charging stations in 19 U.S. airports

Delta Airlines is helping to make life a bit easier for travelers that hope to top off their batteries before getting onto a plane. Until now, fliers often had to scour the corners of gate areas to find an available outlet to scrounge some spare electrons. Last week, the world's largest airline began installing charging stations in the gate areas of 19 U.S. airports. Delta plans to install two charging points at each gate, each of which has six 110 volt outlets and two USB ports.

In addition to the charging stations in the public gate areas, Delta is installing charging pads for phones and other smaller devices in Sky Club lounges. The upgrades are part of a $2 billion program to update Delta's airport facilities and the stations should be in place by early 2011. Thankfully, given how Delta and other airlines have been nickel-and-diming passengers for everything from checked bags to food in recent years, the charging stations will be free of charge. Now if we could just do something about the security procedures before we get to the gate, flying would be a lot less painful.
Delta Airlines to install gate-area charging stations in 19 U.S. airports originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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