Gresso is another company for luxury phones. The cell phones Gresso make are made from a rare African Blackwood that is supposedly 200 years old. They company claims that no two phones are the same because no who trees are the same. Their main four collections are Avantegarde Skeleton, Avantegarde Gold, White Diamonds, Lady Diamond. Each has some variation of state of the art matertial, gold plating and diamonds.

Another recently announced phones is by Swiss watch-maker Ulysse Nardin. As their first handset, the Ulysse Nardin Chairman is what they call a luxury “hybrid smart phone”. So what features does a hybrid smart phone have to offer you ask? Well the 2.8 inch multi-touch display is not works as an interactive touch screen, it also offers finger print recognition sensor as a way to unlock the phone. According to unwiredview.com, the Ulysse Nardin Chairman will be available in five versions: Rose Gold, Rose Gold & Steel, Rose Gold & Blue, Steel & Blue and Stealth Black. And, as in the way of prohibitively expensive phones, the maker announced that only a limited number of them will be produced and released to the market a year. The more interesting feature if this phone is that it has a watch that utilizes kinetic energy developed by the phone’s mechanical watch’s moving rotor.

Vertu is current the most well known luxury phone company. Everybody who is anybody in Hollywood knows of this brand for it’s famous concierge function. According to Wikipedia, the most expensive model Vertu has ever released is the Signature Cobra, selling at US$310,000 or about �17,000. The most expensive regular model from Vertu is the Signature Diamond at US$88,000 or about �2,000. Other models carried by Vertu are as follows: Ascent, Constellation and Ascent Ti. The standard Ascent models come in many different colours, such as: Black, Brown, Red and Orange. The Special Edition models come in White, Azure Blue and Pink. The Summer Collection models come in Strawberry Red and White. Variations of the Ascent also include the RaceTrack Editions and Ferrari Edition. The reason for the hefty price tag is that all Vertu cell phones are made from very expensive or rare materials such as gold for the trim, sapphire for the mobile screen, rubies and cow leather. Plus, each mobile is hand-made in its factories in England.
If exclusivity was the only measure for a luxury cell phone, then the Black Diamond cell phone, originally conceived by Sony Ericson and designed by Jaren Goh’s design at a substantial price tag of $300,000 that is the winner. How exclusive is it? Only five of these are being made in globally!
If exclusivity was the only criteria for a luxury cell phone, then the VVS-1 price at a breath-taking $1.3 million, by designer Emmanuel Gueit’s,definitely, is the winner.
If hideousness, gaudy and full on tasteless bling was the only criteria for a luxury cell phone, then Motorola’s V220 special edition is the winner. At a price tag of $57,000, Austrian designer Peter Aloisson deserves an award for this 18-carat horror that is studded with thousands of precious stones.

Last but not least, Nokia’s 8800 Arte and 8800 Sapphire Arte are worth listing here. This is a phone which combines elegance with unique functionality. One cool quality on the Nokia Arte cell is that incoming calls can be silenced gracefully with the “turn-to-mute”, a function which allows owners to quiet their phone simply by turning over the mobile, screen-side down.
Other than companies which creates luxury cell phones, there are also companies which provides the service of customizing your regular cell phone to become the ultimate luxury phone. amosu offers his luxury customization company using diamonds and gold to turn any phone into an expensive looking piece of art