Gold Edition Nokia 8800 Phone = $2,700

Costing a mere $2,700, this Nokia 8800 is made of 24K gold. The features are the same as a standard 8800, except for a rather shiny special edition box and charging dock.

Gold is the new Black when it comes to mobile phones. One phone bitten by the Gold Bug is the exclusive Nokia 8800 which will now be available in 24K gold. By owning one of these babies you’ll no doubt be the talk of the town.

The new Gold edition has been in the pipeline for quite some time now. However the features found on the Gold Edition are the standard 8800 features (bummer). It includes a 0.5 Mega pixel SVGA camera and a 2, 62,000 colors, TFT (208 x 208) display. Connectivity options include EDGE, Bluetooth, Infrared, Java, MMS, SMS, USB, WAP and it has 64 MB of internal memory. Some other features found on the phone which now may now look standard include, 64 polyphonic, FM Radio, Mp3 Player, Video Recording and 180 mins talktime. The Gold Edition includes an additional special edition box and charging dock though with a crazy $2,700 price tag that doesn’t come much of a surprise! So if you have the spare change you can pick it up from the Siamphone onile store.

Motorola V220 Special Edition

  The Motorola V220 Special Edition has all the features as the normal version but instead this one is special, the way this goes is Austrian designer Peter Aloisson must have got bored and decided hey what the heck let me make an expensive phone, and this is where the Motorola V220 Special Edition was born.

The Motorola V220 Special Edition costs around £28,000 ($51,800) which is basically for football stars more than anything, this mobile phone is encrusted with 1,200 diamonds plus the keypad is inlaid with 18 carat gold.
Motorola V220 Special Edition Specifications –• £28,000
• 1,200 diamonds
• 18 carat gold
• GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900
• 100 grams
• 85.5 x 44 x 24 mm
• Polyphonic & MP3 Ringtones
• Composer
• 1.8 MB shared memory
• USB
• SMS, EMS & MMS Messaging
• Games
• WAP 2.0/xHTML Browser
• Organizer, Java MIDP 2.0, Calculator, T9 (iTAP), Built-in hands free & Voice mail
• VGA Camera, 640×480 pixels
• Up to 216 hours standby
• Up to 5 hours talk time

Vertu Diamond $88,000

The Vertu Diamond collection is one of the most expensive mobile phones on the market, ok it is no where near the price of the Goldvish Le Million but it still is at the top of most exclusive luxury phones. The Diamond from Vertu is in the high end range of mobile phone handsets and if you have the money then this is the one to have. On a personal not we got our hands on one of these phones (no we did not buy it, we just felt it) and must say not for us.

The Vertu Diamond collection handsets are diamond encrusted and made from platinum of which only 200 have been made. £50,000 for a phone what are you mad?

Vertu Diamond Specifications –• GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900 Network
• Key switches with jewelled bearings
• Polyphonic Ringtones
• Vibration
• 1000 Entry Phone Book
• 220 calendar notes
• 100 SMS
• USB
• SMS, MMS & Email messaging
• Games
• Yellow, Blue, Red, Black, Brown & Tan (Colours)
• WAP Browser
• English, French, Italian, Chinese, German & Spanish (Languages)
• T9, Handsfree, Calendar, Calculator & Voice memo
• 122 x 42 x 15.5 mm

The Reason We Would Not Buy One –
1. Too Expensive
2. No Card Slot
3. No GPRS
4. No HSCSD
5. No EDGE
6. No 3G
7. No WLAN
8. No Bluetooth
9. No Infrared port
10. No Camera

Sony Ericsson Black Diamond = $300,000

In March, Trend Hunter introduced you to the Sony Ericsson Black Diamond phone.  We liked the Black Diamond because it’s one of the hottest designs we’ve ever seen.  Now we have confirmation that the phone will enter into production AND we have a price tag.  The catch: it’ll run you $300,000.  That’s a lot for a phone that isn’t actually encrusted with diamonds.  Production will be limited th just 5 units per year.
This phone is powered by Windows Mobile 5.0 with a 2-inch displa and 400MHz XScale processor.  The phone also includes Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 128MB of memory, an SD memory slot, and touch-sensitive keys.

 
This is Sony Ericsson’s Black Diamond, a prototype concept phone by designer Jaren Goh. Not only does it look stunning, it’s designed to come fully loaded with cutting edge edge technologies and materials. Polycarbonate skin, mirror finished cladding, OLED screen providing a ‘borderless screen’ effect and 4 megapixel camera. All theoretical, of course, as it’s just a concept mock-up, but what a stunning design!
We’ve seen Pantech’s and BenQ-Siemens’ concept phones recently, but you make me a phone like this, Sony Ericsson, and we will buy!

world's ugliest phone= $310,000

Vertu's Signature Cobra claims "world's ugliest phone" throne

The most elite cell phone in the world, the Vertu Signature Cobra has price tag of 310,000 $. It’s designed by French jeweller Boucheron. This magnificent cell phone is studded with 18 carat gold and involves ultra high quality ceramic technology. The most luxurious feature of this cell phone is the cobra on the mobile body. The Cobra feature one pear-cut diamond, one round white diamond, two emerald eyes and 439 rubies. This phone has a ‘cheaper’ version, ruby free, at $115,000.
What's there really to know here? Small luxury phone manufacturer goes insane, slaps a pair of hugemongous diamonds, two emeralds and 439 rubies on to an absolutely garish cobra, glues it to a lame-ass phone and sells the setup for $310,000? Pretty much. We can only take solace in the fact that only 8 of these Signature Cobra phones will be made by Vertu and its partner in crime, French jeweler Boucheron. There's also a "cheap" version, the $115k Signature Python, which is due for a production run 26 strong, but if you're actually going to spring for something this ridiculous, why not go all the way, right?


Technical Specifications :

Frequency :	Tri-band 900/1800/1900 MHz
Display :	1.8″ 176?220, 260k Color
Languages :	English, French, Spanish,  Portuguese, German, Turkish, Arabic, Vietnamese, Russian
Audio :	Polyphonic 64-chord, MP3, MP4, MIDI, Dual-Bass Loudspeakers, FM Radio,  Stereo Bluetooth Support
Video :	3GP, MP4; Full-Screen Playback Support
Camera :	No camera
Memory :	1MB Internal; Supports External  microSD Card up to 2GB
Data Transfer :	USB, Bluetooth
Internet :	WAP, GPRS
Messaging :	SMS (Multiple), MMS
Battery :	BL-5CV, Li-Ion, 1050 mAh,  3.7V; 5 hours talk-time, 400 hours stand-by
Games :	3 Standard + Downloadable
Dimensions :	123×46x17 mm
Weight :	200 Grams
Color :	Gold, Ceramic
Misc :	Schedule, 5 Alarms, Groups, Voice Tags, World Time, Health Management, E-Book, Memo/To-Do, Currency Exchange,  Calculator, Voice Recorder
Comes With :	2 Batteries, 1 Charger, 1 USB Cable,  1 Hands-free, 1 Manual, Gift-box

GoldVish Le Million – A Million Dollar Phone

The GoldVish Le Million walks ahead of iPhone Princess Plus and the Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte in bearing the “wrold’s most expensive” phone tag. The GoldVish Le Million writes its name in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most expensive phone in the world at a price of $1.45 million.

The phone is designed by the artistic hands of Emmanuel Gueit and there are only 3 units designed for the richest lot. The phone shines with 18-carat of gold and is available in rose, yellow or white gold colors and it tops it all with 120-carat diamonds encrusted all over it.
Specifications-wise the phone is a treat with 2GB memory and Quad-Band which allows the handset to used all over the world, 8x digital zoom camera with CMOS lens, MP3 player, FM radio and Bluetooth.
The phone has already been purchased by a Russian businessman for his wife. But if you cannot afford a $1.45 million, GoldVish also offers other phones which are 18k diamond-encrusted and glazed in gold and the starting prices range from $25,600.




A PR stunt it may be, and they surely can’t be expecting to sell any, but the Goldvish “Le million” is officially the most expensive mobile phone in the world, according the Guiness Books of Records. There’s even been talk of a $1.3million phone, but this has fewer diamonds than the Goldvish so I can’t see where the extra expense comes from! The “Le million” is a one off, featuring a blinding 120 carats worth of VVS-1 grade diamonds, according to designer Emmanuel Gueit. If $1 million is out of your price range. the Geneva-based Goldvish also offer several other diamond-encrusted 18k gold models in your choice of rose, yellow, or white, starting at a much more reasonable $25,600 (£13,837). ;)