Goldstriker’s £12,000 Nokia Princess Edition

Goldstriker’s Stuart and Katherine Hughes seem to be quite busy these days creating exclusive gadgets for their exclusive website. The excluisve site will be offering a blinged Nokia 8800 next month for a cool £12,000 (US $17,785). The Nokia Princess Edition will flaunt 8.2 ct VVS color F diamonds on the front and rear. The leather will be replaced with 65 grams of solid platinum and the thing will be kept intact with handmade platinum screws

Who said diamonds doesnt sell...does it sound like a crisis in any ways..

Limited edition LAMBORGHINI LP 710 by designer Audigier,d fastest lambo

Edo Competition joined hands with Christian Audigier to create this stunning, limited edition Murcielago called the edo LP 710 Audigier. You can clearly see Audigier’s work in the matte black exterior and the interiors, with a pirate theme and the sparkling skull. The car has been rebuilt with new aerodynamics, wheels, tires and a new exhaust. Based on the Lamborghini Murciélago LP 640, the LP 710 features a stainless steel high performance exhaust system and 19-inch light alloy wheels. With the modifications, the modded car delivers 710hp of power and 700Nm of torque with its 6.5L V12 engine. The car does 0-62mph in just 3.2 seconds, reaches 124mph in just under 10 seconds and touts a top speed of the 223.7mph (360km/h).

Apple iPhone 3G “Kings Button” d most expensive phone

The new Apple iPhone 3G “Kings Button” is made of solid 18 carat yellow gold, white gold and rose gold. The white gold line is encrusted with a total of 138 brilliant cut diamonds of the best quality. But the most prominent feature of this one-of-a-kind phone is its home button that features a rare 6.6 carat diamond. The Kings Button iPhone exudes luxury from every nook and corner. This stunning diamond-encrusted iPhone comes for a whopping €1,790,000 (US $2,517,345), much more than the Princess Plus
The most expensive phone so far.

Now tell me friends what is recession and what would you call credit crunch if the gets a buyer.

Nokia E51 with yellow gold and gems for €32,000

Peter Aloisson has decked out the Nokia E51, and there are two models available – the Nokia E51 “Blossoms of the Eight” and the Nokia E51 “Terezzo” (pictured above). The Nokia E51 “Blossoms of the Eight” is made of solid 18 carat yellow gold. It comes beautifully hand engraved with a design of lotus blossoms and the lucky number “8.” On the other hand, the Nokia E51 “Terezzo” is made of solid 18 carat yellow gold. The handset is encrusted with a variety of individually hand cut citrines, amethysts and/or tourmalines. Each gem is being specially hand cut and polished to fit the design of this fantastic piece. The Blossoms of the Eight and the Terezzo are priced at €19,000 and €32,000 respectively.

Only if u r ready to bare a big dent in ur pocket.....

Gresso's White Diamonds Collection

The new collection includes two new mobiles called Gresso White Diamonds and Gresso Royal White Diamonds. The new White Diamonds Collection features inherit hand-assembled body panels made out of 200-year old African blackwood, keyboards with base plate made of titanium and stainless steel battery cover with a magnetic lock plus leather and gold decoration. Besides, the new phones feature displays covered by 42K sapphire crystal glass, keys made out of 18K gold and as a signature feature - all the numbers on the keypad are laser-cut in Roman style. The Gresso Royal White Diamonds is the more expensive one of the two and will be available in limited edition of 200 units only. All of its 23 gold keys are crowned with a total of 2.53K of white diamonds. It will be priced at 33000 euros i.e. approx. $52,000. The Gresso White Diamond handset features only navigation keys encrusted with white diamonds. And, it will sell for 9,000 euros i.e. approx. $14,000. All Gresso handsets commonly feature a tri-band GSM support, a 65K color TFT display QVGA resolution, a microSD memory card slot and a 2 megapixel camera.

Mobiad's Professional 105GMT Gold Mobile Phone

Mobiado has now announced the Professional 105 GMT Gold, which is an upshot of the marriage of luxury mechanical watches and luxury mobile phones. The 105GMT Gold will be limited to 50 masterpieces, with the limited edition number being machine engraved into the back of each phone. The entire front and back of the 105GMT Gold Luxury Mechanical Watch mobile phone has been crafted from large pieces of sapphire crystal. The 24 Karat gold, hand painted lettering and symbols further add to the beauty of the device. The frame is precision CNC machined from solid brass and is then finished with a 5 micron thick 24-Carat coating of gold. Each pair of wood inserts on the sides of the phone is CNC machined from the same piece of solid ebony wood.

Solid gold Vertu Boucheron looks gorgeous

Created to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Boucheron French jewelry house, the solid gold Vertu Boucheron 150 looks to be a crippled handset. With lots of planes and angles, the phone case has been crafted from a single piece of gold, and it took 1,000 hours to cut into shape, 700 hours to hand polish, and more than 500 hours to build. The luxury handset comes in a luxury wooden case that is made from the Noce Pedullo walnut tree. Every time you open the case, you will be greeted by the Vertu signature ringtone. We are short on technical details, and the only thing we know for now is that the golden phone offers 3G connectivity. Pricing for the weird-looking yet gorgeous, solid gold Vertu Boucheron 150 is not confirmed yet, but the rumor says it will set you back approximately $30,000.

Lexus SC430...crystal studded...what crisis?

The Shi-crystal-like vehicle designed by the Zheng Zhiren is festooned with more than more than 300,000 Swarovski crystals. Currently on display in Taiwan, the Lexus SC430 Shi-crystal-like vehicle is a showstopper at the show. The SC430 has long been known as ‘The Jewel of LEXUS’ and now, this Swarovski-studded version is decorated with crystal made roses and ribbon in pink. The crystals are everywhere on the car, on the front, back and the wheels. The Swarovski-studded Lexus SC430 is worth more than NT 10,000,000 (US $306,045)

lets see who buys it in this credit crisis...

BUGATI VEYRON on sale for 1.3$ on CRAIGLIST

Bugatti Veyron, which has gone just 874 miles. The superfast car is listed on the Los Angeles CL site and is located upstate in Benicia, just north of San Francisco. With a stunning blue exterior and Bardo interiors, the car with 1001 horsepower can sprint from 0 to 62 mph in just 2.5 seconds and go past the 200 mph mark in a mere 24 seconds. While a new Veyron goes for around $1.4 million, it’s interesting to see that this 2006 Bugatti Veyron is listed with an asking price of $1.3 million. It looks like credit crunch hasn’t hit everyone.

lets see who buys it and how would you define crisis and recession if it gets sold

NEFERTI Limited edition phone hits Dubai luxury stores

Givori has taken the wraps off the limited edition Nefertiti phone. Inspired by the ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti, who was known for her beauty, the Nefertiti phone hopes to remind us of the mystery of a bygone era. The Givori “Nefertiti” Nokia Arte phone features vintage ‘30s collectibles made in England and 24 carat gold coated Swarovski crystals. All the phones in the Nefertiti collection have been handcrafted to make sure that no two phones look alike. Only 50 units have been created, with each one marked with a limited edition number. Givori Brand Manager Amine Aoude said…

Dubai's Atlantis hotel opens with £13m party...What crisis?

There was no evidence of the global financial crisis as tycoons and celebrities streamed into Dubai last night for the world’s most expensive private party.

Having spent £1 billion, the owners of the Atlantis hotel, which they hope will become the new symbol of excess in a region already replete with towering statements of wealth, splashed out £13.5 million on its opening.

In the lobby of the Atlantis about 2,000 guests sipped Dom Pérignon. Outside, A-list celebrities from Robert De Niro to Lindsay Lohan walked the red carpet. After the pop singer Kylie Minogue performed on stage the sky lit up with the world’s largest fireworks display, seven times greater than this year’s Olympic Games opening ceremony in Beijing and extravagant enough to be seen from outer space.

High life

$35,000: cost of one night in the Bridge Suite

58,000 km of steel bars were used in the hotel’s construction, more than nine times the length of the Great Wall of China

46 hectares: the size of the Atlantis resort, equal to 64 Wembley pitches

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