Personal observations can't speak to world trends
We spent 30 minutes discussing it in my bio lecture the other day. It's definitely happening and it's pretty bad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgc5w-xyQa0
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/24/technology-kids_n_3751012.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
On that list, I haven't used/seen most of it, and I'll be quite honest, I'm not envious at ALL.
It's going to be anodized on just like the silver and slate is now. It definitely won't be real gold but I'm not sure what its made out of since it's a champagne color and not a GOLD gold.
Someone here jogged my memory.
The Dark Tower series is absolutely fantastic and if you haven't read it, you need to.
Also, the Chronicles of Drizzt is rather good if you can deal with the crap the last couple books were.
I read that the gold iphone will be a big hit in India and China because apparently it's very popular in those 2 countries, both of which have a large amount of people to purchase the phone.