The mobile took 10 months to create and was commissioned by an “Australian gold mining magnate” who clearly had a lot of money on hand now that the value of gold has reached new all-time highs.

The Supreme has 22K solid gold casing, and the front bezel is studded with 136 diamonds. Hughes adds that the “rear logo has 53 flawless diamonds and the front navigation button is home to a very rare diamond at 7.1 cts.”

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Since the launch of this portal in Sep 2008, we‘ve been promoting this unconventional bootstrapped venture throughout the world and we’re quite intrigued with the support shown by the blogosphere. Bloggers from all the continents have participated in this venture. We have received our 2,000th registration this month and as a big “THANK YOU”, we’ve decided to give away 30 iphones (3GS) to 30 lucky twitter users in 15 days. We’d like to thank our official sponsor Hostgator for the tremendous support they’ve shown by sponsoring a part of this campaign.

- Contest begins from July 29th, 2009 and ends on Aug 12th, 2009.
- Once chosen as a prize winner, one is not eligible to win another prize during this   giveaway. One may enter a contest as many times as one would like via Twitter
- To participate, one must send out a tweet from his/her Twitter account with the   #HGBW hashtag included. Each tweet sent with   #HGBW   included will be considered an entry into that day’s giveaway.
- Entries using automated tweets will be disqualified.
- A winner will be chosen, at random, each day at 6pm EDT and announced via   Blogertizeworld’s official contest page and Twitter account   (www.twitter.com/blogertizeworld or @Blogertizeworld). All tweets sent after 6pm EDT,   will be considered an entry in the following day’s giveaway.
- Winning prize will be a $199 gift certificate to the Apple store, which may be used   towards the purchase of an 8GB iPhone, or towards any other official Apple products or   services.
- In case the winner wants us to purchase the prize (iphone3GS-8GB) on his/her behalf   we shall have it shipped directly to his/her door anywhere in the world. (You must prove   ownership of the winning entry and your shipping address). We will dispatch the prize   by Sep 15th 2009.
- Should the daily winner choose to purchase an iPhone with their gift certificate, he/she   will be responsible for establishing and paying for their own cellular/data network plan   through AT&T (or whichever provider supports the iPhone in their country).
- No purchase is necessary to enter (i.e. one need not be an existing Blogertizeworld   customer in order to be eligible to win the daily prize).
- Once contacted, winners will be responsible for providing Blogertizeworld with a mailing   address. Gift certificates/iphones will be mailed/shipped out by Sep 15th.
- Entrants’ personal details will be used by Sitemaker strictly in accordance with   Sitemaker’s privacy policy

Here’s a look at the costing:

You can’t really go wrong with the iPhone’s speedy 3G connectivity, and endless amounts of Apps that help make your life easier, more fun, and get you to where you need to go faster. I know that if I didn’t have my iPhone, it would be like missing a limb, and then where would we be?!

The iFone X1 looks like a Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, but with a touchscreen and without a QWERTY keyboard. The interface, however, is still an iClone, which doesn’t even make sense. The least these guys could aim for is consistency, you know? Short video of the interface below.

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While the Storm sports a touch-screen interface rather than a physical keypad, it can’t match the iPhone’s finger-flicking, pinch-zooming touch-screen panache.

Nor does it have many of the slick consumer applications the iPhone offers, such as Shazam, which can identify songs being played within earshot of the phone.

Finally, while the Storm is stylish, it is thicker, heavier and not quite as elegant as the iPhone.

So why bother? Actually, many consumers — especially professionals — will find good reasons to opt for the Storm over the iPhone.

For starters, a lot of organizations don’t allow use of iPhones because they offer limited enterprise-management tools and they lack the security of full-device encryption. BlackBerries, including the Storm, excel in both categories, making them a more attractive choice for certain professionals.

Second, while many veteran BlackBerry users won’t want to give up their physical keyboards in favor of the Storm’s touch-screen keyboard, the latter is decidedly easier to use than the touch-screen keyboard offered on the iPhone. The Storm’s touch-screen is unique in that it moves perceptibly when you push on it. As a result, when you use the touch-screen keyboard, as well as menus, you get tactile feedback.

In fact, the Storm allows users to choose between two touch-screen keyboards. When you turn the phone between landscape and portrait mode, the contents of the screen change as well. This makes it handy to get a better view of certain photographs or Web pages.

But it also changes the configuration of the keyboard. In the landscape mode you get a full Qwerty keyboard. In the portrait mode, the truncated keyboard can be configured to employ either a mulitap method — in which you tap the button multiple times to evoke certain letters — or a SureType mode, which tries to guess what you’re trying to enter.

At first, I thought the SureType mode was a loser. But that’s because I was watching what it came up with after each press of the key. When I went ahead and typed without looking at the results, I found the SureType method was surprisingly effective.

By giving up the physical keyboard, of course, Storm owners gain a lot more room for cruising the Internet and viewing photos. Here, too, the Storm has an edge over the iPhone. The Storm’s 480 x 360 pixel display offers just a tad more resolution than the 480 x 320 pixel display sported by the iPhone. As for photographs, the Storm’s 3.2 megapixel camera overshadows the 2.0 megapixels offered by the iPhone camera.

Both the Storm and iPhone can open and read Word and Excel files, a handy feature for traveling professionals. With the Storm, however, you can install DataViz software that allows you to edit these files as well. Of course, no one is going to want to do extensive editing on a cellphone, but the capability to make limited changes is very welcome.

Finally, I found the Storm to have the edge on battery life. The iPhone does show smarts in conserving battery life by automatically turning off GPS when it’s not in use, a trick the Storm would do well to emulate. But if you manually turn off the GPS, the Storm, like other BlackBerries, stretches out a charge better than most. You can expect up to 15 days of standby time and 5.5 to 6 hours of talk time with a single charge.

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Just imagine that. Google taking the smartphone war directly into Apple territory. Sure, most people would not care about this, but if Google does this—and most probably not even Google directly, but someone else using Android’s codebase—it would really make things interesting. I, for one, would love to see this happening, even while I personally think that Android is half-baked and most people will ignore it. For now.

At this time, the Linux port has the framebuffer driver (for video), the serial driver, serial over USB driver, and drivers for the interrupts, the clock, and miscellaneous hardware components. They don’t have most of the other things, like write support for the NAND memory, wireless networking, touchscreen drivers, sound, accelerometer, and, one big and, the baseband chip, which is what makes the iPhone communicate with the cellular networks.

But the fact is that it’s getting there and, knowing this, I’m sure several Google employees are scrambling to get the codebase for this port, and maybe help in the effort.

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