Tag have jumped on the designer mobile bandwagon - yours for a mere £2650 (wonder if you can get them as an O2 upgrade after a couple of years with out changing?) http://meridiist-phone.com/default.asp?idfrom=3 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Some of the options with Vertu phones, now pushes them well over £10K..start adding diamonds, and then you're talking car money - how stupid is that

I was playing with a friend's one last week (god - i'm starting to sound like Sexy Pauly!)

Anyway, nice looking phone. But ordinary Symbian operating system (think Nokia).
- So I don't get it.

This is the newest one :-

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Yes you're right, Nokia tech behind them.....basic 3K ones look good with leather and steel. Would just be soooo woriried if I lost one.

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The TV advert I think with Pierce Morgan in it for his new series in Dubai says something about mobile phones at a cost of £250k

Why spend that sort of money on a nokia

Now if it was an iphone .............  Porsche Cayenne S Diesel 66 Plate

Coz you can? Remember some folks still have more money than sense, even in these hard times. If you own an oil well or two or your country pays you to be a citizen (reverse taxation is still paid to Kuwaitii nationals) I suppose you might suffer a momentary lapse of good taste now and again. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

true, owning a oil well or two doesn't give you good taste, just phones that cost more than my house

I suppose it's the same as wrist watches - they all do the same thing, it's the way they do it that costs so much. I have a rather nice Breitling Chronoghraphe Aerospace, cost what I thought was a HUGE amount of money to spend on a watch. It's been super accurate and in 10 years has only needed one replacement battery. I would be the first to admit I could have bought about 50 cheap casio's for the same money but they don't look as nice! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

True, I have the same view on watches within reason , But only got so far as a Seiko Kinetic at the moment. and a top of the range Casio G-Shock for working around the house and snowboarding in.

I just haven't found a nice Breitling/Omega/TAG that i like yet

Well, why would you spend 60k on a car with plastic interior?

There may be people who say "I have been owning my Vertu for 5 years and will be able to use it for another 10 years, so it's cheaper than your stupid iPhone you have to buy new every year."
Just like I tell all people who say they don't understand why I like to buy expensive pens or watches.

So, if they like it, let them buy their 5,000 € phones. I would never spend that sort of money on a mobile phone (although I must say, some of the Vertus look really good) - besides I'm too poor for a vertu!  RRS TDV6 HSE, 2006, bonatti grey, ebony interior, rear diff, s/c grille and vents, stormers, privacy, tasmods, iphone integration