IceLink’s luxurious $15k BlackBerry Bold to debut at Baselworld 2011. IceLink, the Geneva based Gemwatchmaker, well known for their 6 timezone watches has now applied the artful and avant-garde design aesthetics to the BlackBerry phone. The BlackBerry Bold 9700 customized by Icelink is indeed one of the best-jeweled versions of the smartphone available in the market. The luxury phone is not decked to the top, but retain the classy look with stainless steel make with PVD Finish and 6 carats of black diamonds. Only 16 pieces are available in this version and the phone is available for retail for a price of $15,000.
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.