The world’s luxury phones gallery
By Dusan Belic on Thursday, March 15th, 2007 at 10:09 AM PST In Devices
In one of the recent posts, I’ve talked how the development of future mobile phones goes in two distinctive directions. While on one side we see more features being packed on a handset (i.e. smartphones), on the other side, manufacturers are pushing luxury phones, using precious and natural materials instead of plastics.
Wired was on the task to prepare a gallery of the world’s most expensive cell phones, and they’ve come up with 11 devices. Among the mentioned are Vertu Cobra, GoldVish, Gresso, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) 8800 Bling and Mobiado Pro EM. Plus they’ve included the Bell’s Box Telephone of 1877, which was sold for $200 and is priceless today.
Not a single cell phone on the list costs less then thousand bucks. And yet, some of them don’t even have a Bluetooth. I guess wood, silver, gold and similar materials are the decent replacement for such features. 
