Lionel Messi continues to celebrate the title obtained on December 18, when he raised the long-awaited
World Cup in Qatar
before the eyes of the world
, neither more nor less than the coronation of the third star for the
Argentine National Team
.
After fulfilling his ultimate dream, the best player in the world and recent winner of The Best award received a surprising gift for each of his teammates and the coaching staff of the Argentine National Team who helped him achieve the most coveted title for his laureate career: a
gold iPhone 14 Pro Max
.
"Lionel is not only The GOAT (The best player of all time, in Spanish) but he is one of the most loyal customers of
iDesign Gold
and he contacted us a couple of months after the final of the Copa del World,"
Benjamin Lyons
explained
to the British newspaper
The
Sun.
The person in charge of preparing this present was the British firm
Patrick Group - iDesign Gold
, who are characterized by making customizable covers for Apple cell phones with the distinctive that they are all gold-plated.
The covers are the work of British firm Patrick Group - iDesign Gold.
(Photo: @idesigngold)
"I suggested gold iPhones with their names inscribed on them, and they loved the idea," Lyons said.
They are
bathed in 24 carat gold
.
Twenty-six of them will go to their teammates, while the remaining nine would go to the coaching staff led by Lionel Scaloni.
In addition to gold, the phones also have a personalization with the last name and the number of the jersey worn by each world champion on the back of the cell phone, where the shield of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) with the three stars also stands out. for the three world titles obtained: Argentina 78, Mexico 86 and Qatar 22.
Benjamin Lyons himself, owner of Indesign Gold, was the one who delivered 35 of these luxury cell phones to Lionel Messi at his home in Paris.
The price?
According to British media, the increase reaches
210,000 dollars
in total, about
6,000 dollars
for each cell phone.
Although at first it emerged that Messi bought them for his teammates, relatives of the Argentine star assured that it was a gift from the manufacturer.
How is the iPhone used by Lionel Messi
This is what the back of Messi's iPhone looks like.
Released in September 2022, the iPhone 14 Pro Max is the flagship of
Apple
's latest family of mobile devices .
In addition to having a larger screen size, it starts like the previous ones with 128 GB of storage and can go up to 1 TB.
Its price, however, is not the same as the Pro version due to the difference in size.
This model
starts at $1,099
and goes up to
$1,599
.
Much less, of course, than the "gold" version.
The iPhone 14 Pro Max version debuted a
48-megapixel camera
sensor with Pixel Binning technology, which makes better use of lighting per pixel.
It is 65% larger than last year, with OIS built into the sensor.
This mechanical image stabilization technology stabilizes the photo-taking process and controls the path of light to the image sensor.
This combination of 4 pixels in 1 (to capture at 12 megapixels), is something familiar in its rival Android, although Apple relies on its ISP - the
key to placing the exact color in a photograph -
to make it make more sense.
What's more, this version of iPhone captures twice as much light on all sensors, in low light conditions).
(Photo: @idesigngold)
As for videos, the new
action mode
aims to help capture smooth-looking videos that adjust to significant shakes, movements, and vibrations.
The so-called "cinematic mode"
, first introduced in last year's iPhone 13 series,
has also been improved .
Now these smartphones can record in 4K at 30fps and 4K at 24fps using the feature.
Regarding your screen, ProMotion technology is the name that Apple used to refer to the adaptive refresh rate (framerate) in its products and that can go up to 120Hz.
That is to say, if the user uses a word processor that does not require such a high rate, but is playing a video game, the ideal is to refresh at the highest rate possible to generate more fluid images.
In the visual aspect, the company with the bitten apple assured that this new system -similar to the one advanced by the founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk- allows not only to issue an emergency call in the event of a traffic accident, but also to send requests for help in areas without any type of connectivity in less than 15 seconds.
Another of the great novelties in the new iPhone 14 Pro, which has, as expected, a new screen: it does not include the notch for FaceID, but a pill-shaped perforation that Apple calls "Dynamic Island" (Dynamic Island
,
in English).
The characteristic notch was replaced by a small cutout not attached to the frame of the screen that Apple, in which the front camera is located, and which emits notifications in an animated way.
At least for the US market, iPhone 14s
are not sold with the traditional removable tray for the SIM chip
;
It will only come with its digital simile eSIM, a standard that has been on the market for several years.
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