These mobile phones are certainly neighbors envy and owners pride. Priced heavily the following cell phones have both style and status statement.

Until recently, the vast majority of mobiles had been priced between £100 and £300, with only Vertu, a division of Nokia, manufacturing uber-premium phones. With prices starting at around £4,000 Vertu phones are only for the filthy rich, and the super famous.
However, Vertu’s monopoly of the luxury phone market is coming to an end with the launch of several new luxury mobile makers, including Gresso, Mobiado and GoldVish. Other mobile phone manufacturers are also partnering with luxury brands to produce a range of premium mobile phones, such as LG and Prada, D&G and Motorola, and now Tag Heuer and Modelabs. Finally, there are the ridiculous, super-expensive one-offs, made purely for headline grabbing, such as Goldvish’s “Le million”, worth a cool $1,000,000.

GoldVish Le Million
Guinness World Records certifies this GoldVish phone as the most expensive in the world--1 million euros, or about $1.3 million. The odd-shaped device is made out of 18-carat white gold and features 1,800 diamonds totaling 120 carats (this goes way beyond "blink")!! A Russian businessman bought Le Million for his wife last September at a luxury goods fair in Cannes, France. Don't have a spare million for this made-by-request gadget? Geneva-based GoldVish has plenty of expensive phones in its lineup, including models with gold plating and diamond-studded cases.

Diamond Crypto Smartphone
Luxury accessory producer Peter Aloisson has created the Diamond Crypto Smartphone which is sold at $1.3 Million Dollars. Apart from the platinum body this expensive cellular phone features a cover adorned with 50 diamonds including ten which are a rare blue diamond. Even the logo of Ancort and the navigation key are made of gold which is 18 carat rose gold.
The Smartphone is powered by Windows CE and comes with high-resolution color TFT display and a 256 bit cryptographic algorithm. This expensive mobile phone is capable of SMS, MMS, E-mail, Internet, WAP, JAVA support and also has a media player.

Sony Ericsson Black Diamond
Sony Ericsson Black Diamond is referred to as the new black book. This high end 4 mega pixel phone is cased in a layer of polycarbonate with mirror finish cladding. The OLED technology makes for vivid illumination under the polycarbonate skin and gives it a borderless screen effect.

Verto Diamond
This Vertu Diamond Cellphone comes in four 18-carat white or yellow gold models, and one made of platinum.
They are embedded with Pave diamonds and are only made to order. The Diamond is Vertu’s premium range of high-end mobile phones. As the name suggests the handsets in the Diamond range are diamond-encrusted handsets made from platinum. Only 200 of the handsets are being produced, the most expensive believed to be worth an estimated £50,000.


Verto Cobra
Vertu is now taking orders for the Signature Cobra, designed by French jeweler Boucheron, but you had better be quick as only 8 are being made! The Cobra will feature one pear-cut diamond, one round white diamond, two emerald eyes and 439 rubies. Vertu will also be offering a “cheaper” version, ruby free, at $115,000 (£62,162).

Motorola V220 Special Edition = £28,000 ($51,800)
Austrian designer Peter Aloisson, has taken a standard Motorola, studded it with 1,200 diamonds and added a keyboard inlaid with 18 carat gold. The outcome is a £28,000 handset, suitable only for footballers and film stars!

Gold Edition Nokia 8800 Phone = $2,700 (£1,459)
If you have $2,700 to spare, you can now buy the Nokia 8800 in 24K gold. However, be warned, if you think you’ll be getting a better phone for your extra cash, you wont! The features found on the Gold Edition are the standard 8800 features, which are pretty basic. It includes a 0.5 Mega pixel SVGA camera, 64 MB of internal memory, 64 voice polyphonic ring tones, FM Radio, Mp3 Player, video recording and 180 minutes talk time. However, the Gold Edition does include a special edition box and charging dock!

Bang & Olufsen (Samsung) Serene = $1,250 (£675)
Bang & Olufsen hooked up with Samsung to design the sleek but unconventional Serene. It’s not a bad looking phone and it even has a built-in motor to assist you in opening and closing the phone. It’s not very practical however, requiring a special screwdriver to access the battery and the SIM card, and its circular keypad will take some getting used to. Also, for some strange reason they have positioned the camera lens on the side of the device, which will make it difficult to align snapshots via the viewfinder on the display.

Black Aura Collection
The Russia based Gresso, is a new entry into the luxury phone market. Their aptly name “Gresso Luxury Phone” is made of gold and African Blackwood. Apparently they will be releasing a collection of five models called the Black Aura collection, and the designer is a “well known” Italian designer. Currently there are two versions of the African Blackwood phone, one with pink gold highlights named the Gresso Blackwood Gold Edition, and one made entirely of African Blackwood. In addition to the two African Blackwood phones Gresso also make a phone made entirely of pink gold named the Gresso Gold phone. Initially, the phones will be on sale only in Russia.

Mobiado Professional EM (wood) = $1,900 (£1,027)
The Mobiado Professional EM, is a wood-clad upgrade of their earlier Nokia-based phone that includes a 1.3 mega pixel camera, music player, FM radio, Bluetooth, and according to Mobiado it’s the first production phone with Titanium buttons. Only 200 are being made and each one has its limited number engraved on the back. At $1,900 however, you’re still paying an awfully high premium for a fairly basic phone encased in wood!

Verto Signature
Vertu is an independently run fully owned subsidiary of Nokia, but the similarities end there. These handsets are adorned in precious stones (rubies and diamonds), have gold plating, Italian leather, ceramic keys, and more.
The handsets also come with a concierge service specially designed for Vertu owners. Accessed through the dedicated “Concierge key” at the side of every Vertu phone, “the service comprises a team of specialists dedicated to delivering creative and relevant solutions to the needs of Vertu clients, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, depending on the language requested.”

Motorola SLVR-L7
Everybody on the streets seems like carrying same Motorola RAZR or SLVR cellular phones in different colours. However, for sure, there isn’t everybody can afford to carry this special edition Motorola SLVR L7 Diamond phone that is sold for $75, 000 US dollars. Don’t be disappointed if you can’t afford to buy this cellular phone as the features and specifications of this SLVR L7 Diamond phone are just same as the regular Motorola SLVR except missing 260 diamonds.