If you have not watched the video, you probably should check it out and I guess a gold phone is not that easy to put on display without a heavy armored guard. Probably HTC doesn’t really need to do that since it’s only 5 available in the market.
Would you hold your REAL gold phone like Gold HTC One in the street of London? I know I can do it here at home (the small town of Kuching) without losing my hand if I just not showing off too much but I don’t think it would be too wise.
I assume people who bought it would just store it in the bank for safe keeping?
While the exclusive $4,500 handset definitely wasn’t as heavy as we were expecting, its delicate surface had already suffered a multitude of tiny scratches by the time we picked it up — and that’s despite a special protective coating that doesn’t seem to be helping much.
This phone is impractical. There’s a reason companies don’t use real gold as a case material; it’s too soft, and it scratches and smudges easily.
The unit we handled was already scuffed up pretty good — perhaps a demonstration of why aluminum and plastic, rather than more precious and less durable metals, are used in smartphone chassis construction.
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- http://www.goldgenie.com/gold-htc-one.php