Nokia 8800 Arte from Peter Aloisson

Price: 85,000 euros ($134,000)

The award for most dazzling bling may belong to this creation from Austrian designer Peter Aloisson. The company covered the Nokia phone with more than 21 carats of pink and white diamonds. It also offers decorated versions of Motorola and Sony Ericsson phones and Apple's iPhone.

Vertu Constellation Monogram

Price: Around $7,000 online

Nokia subsidiary Vertu is probably the world's most recognizable luxury phone brand. The U.K.-based company released these special-edition handsets in April to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Like all Vertu phones, they are handcrafted in Europe. The phone's body is stainless steel, and the monogrammed leather back is handprinted in a four-hour process.

Vertu Diamond £47,567

he 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.

Gresso Luxury Phone £25,950

The Russia based Gresso, is a new entry into the luxury phone market. Made of gold and African Blackwood Gresso will be releasing a collection of five models called the Black Aura collection. 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.

Sony Ericsson Black Diamond = $300,000 (£162,162)

Apparently the Black Diamond will be available in 2007, not from Sony Ericsson but by a company called VIPN. Initially only 5 unique numered pieces will be available for the unbelievable price of, wait for it… $300,000.

With regards to the specifications, don’t expect anything remarkable for your money. It will have Quad-band with Wi-Fi, an Intel 400Mhz processor running windows mobile 5, and a touch sensitive 2″ screen. It will also include internal memory of 128mb and will come with a 2Gb SD card for external storage, plus a respectable 4 Megapixel camera.

iPhone Princess Plus is worth $176,400

The “Kings Button” [sic] iPhone is, like its predecessor, a jewel-bedecked iPhone. This time, however, Aloisson had the iPhone 3G to play with—and, apparently, a bit of a bigger budget. One hundred and thirty-eight brilliant-cut diamonds line the sides of the phone, but the real prize is the home button—a rare 6.6 carat white diamond.

Last year’s Princess Plus got its name from the Princess cut used on 138 of the 318 diamonds on its surface. The other 180 diamonds on the phone were brilliant-cut. In total, the phone has 17.75 carats of diamonds set in 18k white gold around its rim. The iPhone Princess Plus is worth $176,400 while the somewhat more pedestrian “Brilliants only” version sold for $66,150.

Compare that to the Kings Button’s $2.4 million price tag.

Sold for over $88,000

The Knalihs Athem BlackBerry isn’t the first BlackBerry to get the diamond treatment—Amosu released their own BlackBerry Pearl Diamond Edition in 2008. The diamonds used to make this particular phone were recyclable—owners could have them refit to their next BlackBerry when the Pearl became obsolete. Sold for over $88,000, the Amosu BlackBerry came with a concierge service giving purchasers access to a variety of luxury services.

TAG Heuer Meridiist $10,000 and $30,000

TAG Heuer Meridiist cell phone created by ModeLabs was launched in spring 2008. Now Meridiist phone comes in diamond edition. The new most expensive phones are part of the Meridiist Diamant collection and are offered in 2 versions. More expensive features 1232 diamonds worth 7.4 ct finely set in rows along the angled sides of the phone body, as well as framing the display screen. Less expensive diamond Meridiist phone is studded with 208 diamonds worth 1.3 ct which envelop above and below the display screen.

Tag Heuer claims that the Meridiist Diamant phones will be marketed toward women. The Meridiist luxury phone is sold in a wooden jewelry presentation box which Tag Heuer says is “to preserve and store your investment for future generations”. Tag Heuer Meridiist phone features 316 L Steel, 1.9-inch QVGA Sapphire Crystal scratch-resistant screen, an OLED display, Bluetooth connectivity, and a 2MP camera. Price: between $10,000 and $30,000.

Goldvish “Le million” = $1,000,000 (£540,540)

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). ;)

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