10 Dreadfully Expensive Phones

1. Goldstriker iPhone 3GS Supreme

With a ridiculous sum of money, one can purchase the Goldstriker iPhone 3GS Supreme. With the price tag of $3.2 million, this luxurious and stylish mobile phone is named the most expensive iPhone in the world. The phone is designed by Stuart Hughes in Liverpool for an Australian businessman.

The navigation button is decorated by a rare 7.1 carat diamond. The whole casing was made from 271 grams of 22 carat solid gold and attached with 136 flawless diamonds. The Apple logo in solid gold that has 53 flawless diamonds is visible behind.

2. Diamond Crypto Smartphone

Diamond Crypto Smartphone is designed by Austrian jeweler Peter Aloisson for a Moscow company called JSC Ancort which costs $1.3 million. This luxurious and expensive smartphone is encased in a platinum base and 50 diamonds including 8 extremely rare blue diamonds. The Ancort logo and the navigation key are made of using 18 carat gold. The phone comes with a high resolution TFT display, E-mail capability, media player, Wap and Java support.

3. GoldVish Le Million

$1.3 million worth GoldVish Le Million is designed by Swiss designer Emmanuel Gueit and is made by using 18 carat white gold and mounted with 120-carat VVS-1 graded diamonds. Limited editions of 100 phones are distributed worldwide and are only available upon special request. The cell phone features 2 GB storage, FM radio, digital camera, MP3 playback and Bluetooth.

The Guinness World Record has certified the GoldVish ‘Le Million’ is a piece of unique and declared the sale as the most expensive and most exclusive mobile phone ever sold.

4. Vertu Signature Cobra

This luxury edition phone belongs to French jeweler Boucheron. Only eight cobra phones were produced all over the world. The phone is decorated by one carat round diamond, 439 artfully arranged rubies on to an absolutely garish cobra, two carat pear cut diamond and two emerald eyes. The Signature Cobra features 1.8 inch display, 1MB internal memory, expandable memory up to 2GB, supports USB, Bluetooth, GPRS, WAP and sadly no camera.

5. Ulysse Nardin's The Chairman

This phone holds the Genius Book of World Records certification for officially being one of the most expensive phones of the world. It features 3.2inch capacitive touch screen display which is designed by sapphire crystal, 8 MP camera with flash, 32GB memory and runs on Android Gingerbread OS and also has a thumb print feature at the front for security. The basic model is gold platted and for the elite once they can have the 3,000 hand-cut 17-karat diamonds embedded one. The price starts from $50,000.

6. Nokia Oro

Nokia Ora is the company’s premiumbrand product. This mobile is made using 18 carat gold plating, a sapphire crystal and leather. The mobile frame and keys is designed using gold, the home key has a sapphire crystal and the back of the mobile has leather from one of Scotland's Caledonian herds. Along with this Nokia has also designed a special gold plated Bluetooth headset. The phone features 3.5 inch AMOLED display, 8 MP camera, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and runs on Symbian OS. This phone is available for around 52,000 in India.

7. Sony Ericsson Black Diamond

This expensive cell phone is designed by Jaren Goh of Singapore; the phone is made from a combination of titanium and polycarbonate materials. The phone features polycarbonate glossy mirror finish skin and comes with OLED border less touchscreen. The mirror finish gives the phone a sleek and futuristic look. The company has created only five pieces of the design, making it a true limited edition luxury phone. The cell phone is powered with an Intel 400Mhz processor, 128MB internal memory, 2GB external memory storage card and WiFi Bluetooth adaptability. It has price tag of $300,000

8. Gresso Luxor Las Vegas Jackpot

The Gresso Luxor Las Vegas is an ultra-exclusive and extraordinarily expensive phone. The phone is inspired by Egyptian design and features 45.5 carats of black diamond decorated along the side frames and the back panel is made from 200 year old African blackwood which is the most expensive wood in the world. More over each key is hand polished sapphire crystal and all these luxurious materials are framed in a 180 gram solid gold. The phone costs around $1 million.

9. Peter Aloisson's Kings Button iPhone

The Austrian designer and jeweler Peter Aloisson has designed the Kings Button iPhone. It is called as the Kings Button because the home button is designed with flawless rare 6.6 carat white diamond. The iPhone is fully made of solid 18 carat yellow gold, white gold and rose gold. The white gold is studded along the sides with 138 brilliant cut diamonds. This iPhone cost approximately $2.4 million.

10. Stuart Hughes iPhone 4 Diamond Rose Edition

This luxurious iPhone is handmade using 500 individual flawless diamonds by Stuart Hughes, a British jeweler. The back side of the iPhone is formed using gold, the Apple logo at the back is created by using 53 diamonds and the navigation button is made from platinum which holds a pink diamond.

The luxurious iPhone is available in India and comes in three major designs; iPhone 4: diamond and gold edition is for 1.83 lakh, iPhone 4: platinum is for 2.19 lakh and the ultimate iPhone 4: Dimond Rose model is available for 35 crore.