Published rating of the most expensive smartphones in the world.
The cost of the most affordable smartphone in this ranking is comparable to the price of an apartment in the city center or the car class.
For the money which is estimated the most expensive – you can buy several Islands in the Mediterranean sea or even a small country.
Most electronic devices such as computers and phones obsolete within six months after release. However, there is a class of products that practically do not lose in price, despite the fact that on the market are much more advanced gadgets.
10 place
Sony Ericsson Black Diamond. $300 000
Black Diamond was released in a limited edition for the Singapore project designer Garena. In addition to the unusual shape, the smartphone features trim two diamonds – one diamond is set on the button of the joystick and one on the back side of the device.
9th place
Vertu Signature Diamond Collection. $310 000
The Signature collection from Vertu presents six models of phones, and the entire collection consists of 200 copies, each of which was harvested by hand. The design of the phone created by jewelry house Boucheron. The device Signature series made of 18 carat white or yellow gold and platinum. The front bezel is encrusted with diamonds. Some of the most beautiful devices in this series are the Vertu Boucheron Signature Cobra and Python snakes with diamond.
8th place
Gresso Luxor Las Vegas Jackpot. $1 000 000
The name of this device the two cities, known for its luxury – crazy Las Vegas and ancient Luxor. The reason the cost in one million dollars. The phone is made of pure gold and decorated with rare black diamonds 46 carats. The keys of the device made of single crystal sapphire which has been polished by hand, and letters and numbers on it caused by the laser. Rear panel – two hundred year old African Blackwood. Luxor Las Vegas Jackpot released just in triplicate. Budget counterpart with less valuable trim is estimated at only $22 000.
By the way, Gresso offers and quite modern by Gresso iPhone 6S at very budget price – from $3000.
7th place
Ancort Diamond Crypto Smartphone. $1 300 000
The name of this device speaks for itself – the Diamond Crypto Smartphone has a built-in encryption and is completely covered with diamonds. The phone is made of 950 platinum. Navigation button and logo made of gold. The sides of the device out of black wood. On either side of the screen and keyboard located up to 50 diamonds each 1.2 carats, and one large diamond is set in the navigation “joystick”.
6 place
GoldVish Le Million Piece Unique. $1 300 000
It would be better to call this phone “Le Million three Hundred” – that’s how much each of the three released by the Swiss company devices. The Cabinet is made of white gold and completely covered with diamonds totalling 120 carats. Rear panel of this unit is covered in crocodile skin. Design Le Million – the work of a jeweller Emmanuel Gate.
5th place
iPhone 3G Kings Button. $2 500 000
Fans of smartphones from Apple trying to update their gadgets as new models, so that the owners of iPhone 3 among them are almost destitute. Unless, of course, we are not talking about the iPhone 3G Kings Button. Another creation of Peter Aloisson decorated with a huge diamond weighing 6.6 carats, crowning button smartphone. In addition to his iPhone 3G Kings Button is decorated with 138 diamonds smaller, and the housing is made of pink, yellow and white gold.
4 place
iPhone 3GS Supreme. $3 200 000
Not ashamed of its owner and this third iPhone. However it can be bought only second-hand, as the model is created in a single copy on special order for the Australian tycoon. Design and performance of the iPhone 3GS Supreme – the work of the Bureau of Stuart Hughes. The smartphone is decorated with 136 diamonds, a total weight of 70 carats, another diamond of 7.1 carats crowns the Home button. The device is made of gold and weighs 271 grams. Apparently, the diamonds on the phone were not enough seats to justify such a high cost, it is Packed in a special “box”. Case for the phone weighs 7 lbs since the cut in a solid piece of granite. To heighten the effect of granite chest lined with leather and gold.
3rd place
iPhone 4 Diamond Rose Edition. $5 000 000
Another creation of the design Bureau of Stuart Hughes iPhone 4 Diamond Rose Edition. The phone studded with over 500 diamonds, including 53 on the Apple logo. The back panel is made out of gold. Home button topped with a pink diamond weighing 7.4 carats. Package included one large diamond weighing 8 carats, which, if necessary, can be replaced by pink. As in the case of Supreme 3GS, this smartphone is transferred to the buyer in fifteens granite case, but in this case, the stone is pink.
2nd place
iPhone 4S Elite Gold. $7 777 000
The smartphone is decorated with about 500 diamonds weighing over 100 carats. Overall finish is similar to the iPhone 4 Diamond Rose Edition, but the “Elite gold” at the Central key flaunts a larger diamond of 8.6 carats, and the spare weighs a pink diamond of 7.4 carats. Different packaging and the” sheath made of platinum, and the cover is decorated with rare stones and even real dinosaur bones Tyrannosaurus Rex. iPhone 4S Elite Gold 64GB made only in two copies.
1 place
iPhone 5 Black Diamond. $12 954 000
Restless Hughes with his latest creation took the first position in our list of top 10 most expensive smartphones in the world.
The iPhone 5 Black Diamond “just a little” not up to $ 13 million (10 million British pounds). The recipe of the “Black Diamond” is similar to the previous works of Hughes. The casing is made from 24 Karat gold, which weighs 135 grams. The screen is covered with sapphire crystal. As the Home button is used a 26-carat black diamond, which itself costs about $ 12 million. In addition to his body is decorated with 600 white diamonds. Oddly enough, neither granite nor platinum case, Black Diamond dial is not allowed. The smartphone was made in a single copy on request of a Chinese businessman, however, Stuart Hughes has said he is ready to repeat the work, if there is a customer.
Note that Hughes managed to lay a hand to the newest smartphone from Apple – the iPhone 6S. Performed by the designer, the device has received a prefix to the name of Solid 24ct Gold Edition and a “small” increase in price for this unit the buyer will have to pay $26 000.
