Nokia starts selling $25,000 Ferrari phone

Phone commemorating luxury carmaker's 60th anniversary goes up against Prada, Armani, and Dolce & Gabbana handsets.

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[WJeansonne]

A Sucker Born Every Minute

The sale of this phone out to help the Ferrari's build another luxury home or two on the French Riviera. And to imagine the dumb insecure, albeit rich, fool that buys such a phone. If it's a guy, he no doubt has a micropecker and feels indequate, LOL.

[adasha76]

For rap artists and football players only

Seriously there's something wrong with you if you pay that much for a phone with less features than two cups joined by a bit of string. Oh how I jest.

I'm not even that keen on the styling tbh and I'm not just saying that because I can't afford one.

[Stating]

I'm Launching The Lawrence Welk Phone

I'm launching the Lawrence Welk commemorative phone. It will be available in bright colors like pink and lime green. It is being targeted at the 70-90 demographic. We're going to do a tie-in with Geritol and Metamucil. We're only making a limited edition of 26 phones, which is how many musicians were in the champaign music orchestra.

[swrobel]

Seriously?

I don't think the design of the Vertu phones (aside from additional branding or "bling") has changed in the past 5 years. It's amazing to me that they still charge the prices that they do despite the fact that they still have postage-stamp screens and no modern features. There isn't even a camera on this thing!

[chuck_whealton]

How many have they sold?

I must have missed it... How many of these have they sold?

This is plain STUPID.

Charles R. Whealton
Charles Whealton @ pleasedontspam.com