What is the sound of one phone ringing?

Actually, that would just sound normal.  Umm, how about, “If a mobile receives an SMS in the forest, does anyone read it?”

Depends on the network coverage, I suppose.

Anyway, enough with the koans – check out the bling on the Buddha Phone!

This beautiful bit of tat was discovered for sale in Shenzhen.  It is apparently plated in 24 karat gold and can actualy be ued to make phone calls – which is a nice bnus.

We spotted this on Engadget, but the original (Google translated) page is a goldmine for fans of wobbly Engrish.

For example – “This gem with evil may decorative buttons than unusual, it is Buddha video button.”

Interestingly, the characters around the edge are described (I think) as “stainless steel body of the fuselage with the gilded frames, like Journey to the West and some of the incidents that caused the Jiasha shiny.”

Which (again, I think) means they relate to the Buddhist classic ‘Journey to the west‘ – the inspiration for crazed seventies TV classic Monkey.

And that is why this is better than ANY phone Nokia, Samsung or Apple will ever produce.

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