Nokia Vertu Cobra
Trying to sell boatloads of inexpensive phones to China and India hasn't been working too well for cellular handset makers, so perhaps pricey is the future after all. If so, it's a shame that so many luxury phones involve little more than the ill-considered addition of rare metals and expensive gemstones to boring, lackaday handset designs.
Still, we plunged hip-deep into bling in hopes of finding beauty amid these beasts of bad taste. This glistening lot, right at the intersection of excess wealth and ostentation, is the best we could find. Feast your eyes -- these photos are as close as you're likely to get to these ultra-luxe mobiles.
Left: $310,000
Nokia's luxury phone subsidiary, Vertu, crafts its ridiculous cellphones (they call them "instruments") at a custom workshop hidden away in the English countryside. Among the silliest are models named after famous racetracks -- plans of which are engraved on each of the limited-edition handsets. While some models are a mere $4,000 or so, the Signature models -- studded with real carbon -- can cost up to $310,000. The Cobra (pictured) is "inspired by 19th century Parisian jeweler Frederic Boucheron." Only eight exist worldwide.
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