The $200,000 Smartphone

This is my most expensive unboxing

ever because in front of us right now

are 12 super limited edition smartphones

starting at 700 going all the way up to

almost 170

000 so surreal to say but even at the

lowly seven hundred dollars

you can still get something pretty

special so you might have heard of the

oppo vino 4 pro

it's a pretty standard upper mid-range

phone but for the limited edition oppo

partnered with pantone who are like the

color company to create a green glitter

version

and providing you like the color you

really have to like this color

i think the packaging is beautiful it's

lightly textured on the outside but

also this whole glowing green theme

they've got going on it's everywhere

it's in every insert it's on this rather

unusual case you get inside

it's on the usb-c cable the earphones

they catch light in a really mystical

way

even the charger on the front it has the

pantone branding and on the back green

glitter

a great success as for the phone itself

there is a lot going on it's kind of

amazing this silky matte finish

paired with all these little green

flourishes the buttons the text

they've even changed the color of the

side rails the antenna bands and the

inside of the usb-c

port just to fit the theme only thing is

that's a lot of text i think in the

pursuit of trying to make something that

feels limited and special oppo's kind of

left elegance and subtlety at the

doorstep

but this was oppo in 2020 and i would

argue that it's taken them till this

year to finally nail this concept of

experimental color

so this is the rather elegantly named

oppo reno 5

pro plus 5g artist limited edition

i feel like at that stage why not just

call it reno 5 max and be done with it

but this phone changes color the

packaging is immediately striking

i feel like with limited editions the

default option is to go down the route

of luxury

but this one's just more quirky it

doesn't come with any gold-plated

accessories or super high-end materials

but the visual design here is so unique

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that's what makes oppo's limited edition

so fun like it really looks like they've

just handed their phone to an artist and

said

you want to paint something on it knock

yourself out

and here's the magic thanks to

electrochromic glass

which uses energy to change the physical

arrangement of the molecules with just

two taps on the back

we can shift color that's so cool like

could you imagine a few years down the

line being able to just swipe on your

phone

and cycle through till you get the exact

finish you want

it does make you wonder what a 170

thousand dollar phone is going to look

like though

now for 50 more than that is a phone

that means business

you might have heard of red magic they

make high-end gaming phones

that don't cost a leg i've got their

latest red magic 6 here which is their

2021 offering with all the bells and

whistles like the world's smoothest 165

hertz display

and seven separate cooling mechanisms

all meshed together

but for the purposes of this video the

one that we're actually interested in is

a special edition version

of their last phone the red magic 5g and

what makes this noteworthy is that

this is a transparent phone

we've seen transparent phones before

they often use these kind of fake

components just beneath the glass

because

well the real components don't look that

great but the one difference here is

that this phone

has a fully working fan so this is a fog

machine

it's fully loaded up with fog juice so

if we turn that on

you should be able to see how the air is

coming in being used to cool the

internals

and then getting pushed out on the other

side you could say it's

red magic

i love myself the effort is definitely

here

the software is heavily customized the

keyboard feels like it's from an alien

planet

they've even created a wallpaper that

allows you to see the fan in action

on the front too a bit tacky in my

opinion but i appreciate the effort

okay picture this it's 2016.

samsung's announced the galaxy s7 edge

it's high-end it's got these new

exciting curved edges

it's regarded by most as the best

smartphone the world has ever seen

and then they warn up themselves again

by launching

the injustice edition of that phone i

wanted this thing so badly so

the fact that i finally managed to get

one is kind of surreal

sadly it isn't sealed but it was as

close as i could get

the first thing you see is an enormous

bad signal logo proper metal job this

there's a thick batman case we've got

the phone which i'll get to in a sec

and a gear vr headset at the time this

thing was samsung's vision of the future

but it just never quite took off vr is

expensive

it's kind of an isolating experience and

i guess just the idea of sticking one of

these on in public

like samsung was promoting just felt a

bit awkward to people

on one hand i'm looking at this thing

thinking what a phone this is so cool

and just marveling at all the little

easter eggs hidden in the software

but the other part of me is thinking

this feels so old

and even though i can distinctly

remember the feeling of looking at this

like it was the pinnacle of cutting edge

i can't help but look at it now through

my 2021 lens

just like it belongs in a museum

somewhere but

that's just the beauty of how fast

things are moving pretty exciting

but on the subject of samsung they've

started doing something pretty clever

recently

so you know how you can buy a samsung

phone almost anywhere right

a walmart a flipkart and tesco that's

intentional

it means that samsung has the best

possible reach however

in some sense ideal world all the

customers who could

would actually buy direct from them

because that way they can charge the

same price

but not have to pay all these retailers

a second extra cut

so samsung have started encouraging that

in a not so subtle way

by giving free bonuses like earphones

and google play credit

and now also exclusive limited edition

color variants

they take at least two weeks to deliver

because they are made to order

and for the s21 plus this year they've

designed a color variant that when i saw

for the first time i was like

we've got to get this on the channel

because i love it

i've showed it to two other people they

hate it so i want to know what you think

the box is identical to the other normal

variants this isn't like some super high

effort luxury edition

but look at this

they call it phantom red and it's pretty

much everything i want in a foam finish

it's jazzy and fun without looking

excessive the matte texture is grippy

and also keeps itself clean there's no

flexing at all in the body

and they still manage to get that

complex light refraction that gives it

an extra aesthetic layer

also this feels like a weird thing to

say but this is one of my favorite

phones ever

from a bezel perspective because it's

still one of the only devices on the

market

where the screen feels like it's evenly

stretched around the canvas of the phone

so there's no weird jutting corners or

thick chins it's just

pleasant design okay moving up the price

meter

i think they've done something even more

interesting with the exclusive version

of their s21 ultra you've probably seen

a fair bit of this black one maybe also

the silver too because

these were the ones sent to reviewers

but as a consumer if you go through

samsung's own store

you can find something called phantom

brown which

i mean i don't think the words phantom

and brown belong in the same sentence

but the end result is a phone unlike

anything i've ever seen before

you see on one hand it's just brown it's

not one of those super vibrant colors

that you usually associate with wowing

people

but when was the last time you saw a

brown phone

and i actually think this soft phantom

glow paired with the carbon fiber themed

camera setup

and the black rail that goes all the way

around the sides it sneaks up on you a

bit

it feels surprisingly distinct i feel

less like i'm holding an official

samsung product and

more like one of those fan made concepts

but

in a good way

i think i might have just scuffed it now

you might have heard of harrods

they called themselves the world's

leading luxury department store

and they built a bit of a reputation for

selling things like a 160

000 golf putter a 200 000 bottle of

perfume

and a one million dollar advent calendar

so compared to that this feels like a

bit of a bargain

inside this box is the two thousand

dollar harrods limited edition

iphone 5s and given that there were

literally three of these on the entire

internet

and the 5s is pretty much my favorite

iphone ever

they had to get this it's a seriously

heavy duty wooden package

it even needs a key to open it although

this feels more like a gimmick than

security

and here we have it and so on the left

is what looks like a gold usb stick

not the most inspired design i gotta say

but then the phone itself

yep to be clear i'm not a particularly

showy person

so this whole idea of like sticking a

thousand swarovski crystals on something

and then plating the rest in 24 karat

gold it

kind of horrifies me but the level of

precision here

is blowing my mind this whole idea that

like every single crystal you see here

has had to have been individually

planned and implemented

whether that's the six they've managed

to fit onto the power button the four

they've got onto the alert slider

or the 65 carefully placed inside the

apple logo

and every single one has its own

separate enclosure

just to hold it in place also just like

the size of this thing

it's like a relic of the time when

phones were actually usable in one hand

right we're in the top five actually

just gonna bring this closer so i can

look at it

okay imagine this it's 2012. samsung has

just announced the pebble inspired

galaxy s3

apple is readying their thinnest iphone

yet and blackberry

is getting slaughtered by the

competition

so what they did is revamped their

operating system

and as well as releasing their standard

mainstream 700

bold 9900 they also created a limited

edition porsche design version

and called it the 9981

for some reason it's definitely packaged

like you've just dropped some serious

dough on it

we've got the phone which we'll get to a

custom charging stand

they've even got a porsche design

battery manuals a cleaning cloth

below that are the more standard

blackberry accessories as well as though

what looks like porsche design earphones

too they didn't have to do that that's a

that's a slick move i will say this

there was a time in my life when i

thought

blackberry was the coolest thing in the

world but pretty much as soon as that

first iphone got announced

and i saw the value of touch-based apps

and games the whole appeal of blackberry

just

just kind of disappeared but if i was

going to use one

this would have been it the stainless

steel body the sharp lines the leather

bag the laser etched logo

the edge-to-edge keyboard it all gives

the impression of rugged engineering

this is one of the few phones that you

could throw at a wall

and worry about the wall

and now the room is open plan it's just

a shame that such high-end hardware was

let down by

really a laughable software solution now

after that package

i was kind of looking at this one worth

2450

thinking really this is the alpha one

and the only justification for its price

is that it's lamborghini branded

so this is not like an oppo or a huawei

phone that's just licensed the

lamborghini name this is being sold to

people as

the lamborghini phone but with that in

mind the one thing that it then needs to

do for two and a half grand

is to convey luxury and i don't think

the packaging really does that

the cable is generic the charger just

has a logo slapped onto it

and while you do get a nice sim ejector

tool i'm really not wowed

but then i realized why because on the

face of it yes this is a really nice

premium well-built

luxury car branded phone it's got a

liquid alloy frame

which is highly resistant to stains and

dents and scratches

this rather lovely circular power button

and some extremely plush stitched

leather on the back

which just kind of makes sense here it's

a high-end material

and it also ties back into lamborghini

cars

but depending how much time you spend

watching tech videos

you might recognize this camera setup ah

yes

let me introduce you to the zte axon 7 a

phone

which is spec for spec identical to this

and it's very clear that all lamborghini

have done is taken that

and repurposed it and that includes the

packaging ztes was the same

just a different color that feels pretty

disingenuous to me

i actually think it's cool when

companies make luxury high-end variants

of their existing phones

but this one has purposefully distance

itself from the device it's based off

to basically trick people like i can

imagine the majority of people who

bought this

probably thought they were paying for

lamborghini engineering when

they were actually paying for zte

engineering with a bit of

lamborghini leather slapped on top right

now we're into the top three

and with a value of about three and a

half thousand dollars we have something

that i don't think you can just hop

online and order

so you might know that xiaomi's recently

dropped their full flagship me 11 series

of phones

this is meant to be a commemorative

package for that and so far so good

they've even created like a

xiaomi branded suitcase for it okay

let's get inside

this could be anything whoa okay

there's three phones here the first one

is the mi 11 lite

surprisingly affordable phone at like

299 euros

then got the mi 11 pro all the way up at

around 1 000 euros

but for some reason this one isn't

releasing globally

and then finally the 11 ultra which i've

already done a full review about

but i believe this is a ceramic white

model which i haven't seen in person yet

but there's more

we've got a me band 6 which is their

latest activity tracker

i've got to say while xiaomi is up

against strong competition in the phone

market

these bands are one area that they've

just killed it mostly because i think

their competition wouldn't even want to

enter this kind of price point

and then this one's very curious it's an

80 watt

wireless charger which is incredibly

powerful but

what makes it strange is that xiaomi

doesn't make a phone that can charge

with 80 watts wirelessly

and this 80 watt wireless charger comes

with a 120 watt

wire charger but xiaomi literally has

one phone that can actually charge with

120 watts

so i think this whole package is less

about immediate benefit

more like a future-proofing solution the

phones well they all do share

elements like you can tell they're from

the same lineup but

each one has its own character the mi 11

light is slim and like its name suggests

light but it also has a really fun

finish that is kind of messing with me

the way it reflects light almost makes

it look three-dimensional

and then as you get further up the

lineup the phones get more capable

but then also less experimental when it

comes to looks like i do definitely

prefer this white m11 ultra

over the black one that i was sent to

review but i do think it's a massive

shame that all these

ultraphones they play it so safe when it

comes to color

okay two phones to go and now is where

we really start cranking up that price

dial

you've probably heard of caviar they've

sent us a few um

interesting phones before but this is

what they're selling for 6900.

nice so they're calling this apache

not that kind of apache and it's like a

limited edition iphone

to apparently honor the indigenous

people of america

but this is the first time i'm seeing it

i'm i'm kind of nervous

um slightly shaking but it's exciting

let's do it

i mean it's just an iphone so far

let's see what it looks like all right

here we

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that's go so the bottom of this is a

it's like a leather type material the

top is kyranite black pearl which

as far as i can see is a sort of highly

durable acrylic

and then all of these gold parts are

brass underneath with a 24 karat gold

plating on top

i feel like if there's one word for this

it's meaty

like it's very clear this is a showpiece

this is for someone who cares much more

about

the materials and the quantity of those

materials on their phone

than say how comfortable it is to hold

would i personally use this

probably not does it feel expensive and

premium

yeah i think my favorite design so far

is still that titanic phone that i

looked at about a year ago now

i really like this black and red theme

item that's so

so premium international warranty and

this is number one of 99

a normal apple charger earpods

not airpods an apple cable

but now it's time it's time to see what

a 170

000 phone looks like that's enough money

to buy 80

27 inch imacs 12 brand new chevrolet

sparks

or you know a beachfront mansion in

nicaragua

it's so valuable that you can't even buy

it in one go due to online banking

restrictions on their end

it's so valuable that by the time you're

seeing this video

it's already been escorted back to

russia where it came from

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okay three two

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so we have a caviar limited edition gold

business card jeffrey preston

bezos

this like white and gold combination

here this looks amazing

let's have a look what comes in the box

first we've got gold themed packaging on

the accessories

maybe we'll even get air pods so the

cable

is black cable and then we've got a gold

caviar themed sim ejector tool

oh right okay um

samsung galaxy buds and they are

literally just the standard black ones

we have a black samsung themed

charger the gold collection which i'm

assuming is filled with

a whole number of other stupidly

expensive things

and finally certificate of ownership

this feels like like thor's hammer

trying to pick it up

okay don't judge me it was two for one

i mean

it makes me want to laugh and cry at the

same time

so this is the gold phone it is a

samsung galaxy s21 ultra

paired with one kilogram of pure gold

i don't have any way of like verifying

those materials myself but

more importantly who is this for because

you've probably noticed that whilst the

past phones for the sake of luxury and

beautification we've lost wireless

charging

this time we've lost the cameras sorry

that i have to say this but

fingerprint magnet not to mention that

it literally weighs a kilogram

plus the weight of the phone's own

internals and here it is

samsung galaxy s21 ultra

gold brick in case you're wondering this

is what the camera looks like

literal just black straight up weirdly

the selfie camera doesn't work either

but i guess if you can afford this you

can probably afford someone to take

photos of

you i was curious so i just looked up

the price of a one kilogram block of

gold it's coming out at the equivalent

of 55 000 us dollars

which is still crazy expensive but it's

not 170 000

i guess the main value add here is that

caviar apparently offers a swapping

service

so two times for each customer you can

apparently tell them

i want to swap the phone's hardware to

it could be an s24

it could be like an s27 at that point

value for money anyways if you did enjoy

this video then we've got my last

ridiculously expensive unboxing up here

and the thinnest smartphone in the world

up here thanks