Over The Top Phones

 COBRA PHONE British mobile phone maker Vertu teamed up with French jeweller Boucheron on a diamond-encrusted, purple-and-peach phone with a snake slithering around the frame. Priced at $310,000 when it came out in 2006, 8 Cobra phones were made.

he Swiss company showed little restraint with Le Million, a solid gold and diamond-studded phone. It cost a million euros ($1.3 million) when it debuted in 2006. With spout-like tips at both ends, the luxury phone looked vaguely amoeba-like.

NEFERTITI: Givori, a Dubai-based high-end cellphone accessory maker, teamed up with Nokia to deliver this mishmash of crystals, jewels and ornaments to evoke the Egyptian Queen Nefertiti. Fifty were made, and each was individually styled so that no two phones looked exactly alike (because that would be totally embarrassing). The price of originality? About $4,500