there's an advertisement in today's new york times magazine. sprint is selling a blackberry 8830 for $10.5 million, but you get an "exotic island" for free. i thought it was a joke. while it is a little tongue-in-cheek, the offer itself seems to be real. maybe it's silly marketing, but it's genuine silliness and doesn't appear to be a hoax.
anyway, i was kinda intrigued by the idea. is sprint just trying to top apple/AT&T for the "most overpriced phone" award? it's also kind of strange that they never tell you where the island actually is (try clicking on the official promotion site, skip the pretentious video, click on "about the island" on the upper right, then hit the "island details" button. they really don't give many details at all, do they?) shouldn't they at least tell you whether you can get a sprint phone signal on the island?
according to the fine print, the island offer is "ONLY available to the wealthiest 100 people on planet Earth." i guess that knocks out those billionaires in space, which brings me ever so slightly closer to that top 100 position! but limiting it to just the top 100 earthbound people still doesn't seem all that fair. i mean, if someone in the bottom 5.999999900 billion manages to scrape together the $10.5M, why can't they get the island too?
i also wonder if the dimensions of the island in the picture are accurate. and, if so, if i could figure out which island it was if i spent enough time on google earth.
