What are the gold iPhones that Messi and his teammates look like and how much do they cost?

Lionel Messi continues to celebrate the title obtained on December 18, when he raised the long-awaited in the eyes of the world World Cup in Qatarneither more nor less than the crowning of the third star for the Argentina national team.

After fulfilling his latest 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 Argentina national team who helped him achieve the most coveted title of his winning career: A iPhone 14 Pro Max gold.

“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 contacted us a couple of months after the World Cup final,” he explained Benjamin Lyons to the British newspaper the sun.

The person in charge of preparing this gift was the British company Patrick Group – iDesign Goldwhich are characterized by the creation of customizable covers for Apple mobile phones with the hallmark that they are all gold plated.

“I suggested gold iPhones with their names engraved on them and they loved the idea,” Lyons said.

I’m the same 24K Gold Plated. Twenty-six of them will go to teammates, while the remaining nine will go to the coaching staff led by Lionel Scaloni.

In addition to the gold, the phones also have a personalization with the surname and number of the shirt worn by each world champion on the back of the phone, where the Argentine Football Federation (AFA) shield with the three stars also stands out for the three 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 mobile phones to Lionel Messi at his Paris home. The price? According to British media, the increase reaches 210 thousand dollars in all, some 6 thousand dollars for each mobile.

Although it was initially revealed that Messi bought them for his teammates, relatives of the Argentine star have assured that they were a gift from the producer.

How Lionel Messi uses the iPhone

Released in September 2022, the iPhone 14 Pro Max is the flagship of the latest family of mobile devices from Manzana. In addition to having a larger screen size, it starts like the previous ones with 128GB of storage and can go up to 1TB.

Its price, however, is not the same as the Pro version due to the size difference. This model starts at $1,099 and go up to $1,599. Much less, of course, than the “gold” version.

The iPhone 14 Pro Max version debuted with a sensor 48 megapixel camera with Pixel Binning technology, which makes the most of lighting per pixel. It’s 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 12 megapixels), is something known in its Android rival, although Apple relies on its ISP – the key to putting exact color into a photograph- to make more sense. Also, this version of iPhone captures twice as much light across all sensors, in low-light conditions).

As for the videos, the new mode of action aims to help you capture with a smooth look that conforms to significant shake, movement, and vibration.

The so-called “cinematic mode”, first introduced in last year’s iPhone 13 series. Now these smartphones can record in 4K at 30fps and 4K at 24fps using the feature.

As for your screen, ProMotion technology is the name Apple used to refer to the adaptive refresh rate (framerate) in its products and which can go up to 120Hz. That is, if the user uses a word processor that does not require such a high speed, but is playing a video game, the ideal is to update to the fastest possible speed to generate smoother images.

From a visual point of view, the bitten apple company has ensured 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 road 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 of 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 has been replaced by a small cutout not attached to the screen frame that Apple, in which the front camera is located, and which emits notifications in an animated way.

At least for the US market, the iPhone 14 they are not sold with the traditional removable tray for the SIM chip; It will only come with its digital equivalent eSIM, a standard that has been on the market for several years.