Gresso is already known for making luxury devices, such as the AvantGarde Gold, Steel and White Diamonds. Now, they come with another expensive device, the AvantGarde Skeleton. This phone is made of special and expensive materials…so its price can be explained….4,000 Euro. 
Features and specifications: a GSM 900/1800/1900 device; runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 OS; a QVGA screen; Bluetooth connectivity; 2GB of built-in flash memory; a 2 megapixel camera; Wap; GPRS, but no 3G; video and audio playing capability and support for MIDI, WMA, AVI, ASF and WMV formats; personal organizer functions. Well, these features are quite poor for that price; but the aesthetic features are more important here.
The phone comes with a great design and form factor,and its case is made of titanium alloy with high-tech ceramic coverage. The back panel comes with a sapphire glass, decorated with the Gresso logo with 10 micro gold. The keys are made of aircraft steel, the battery cover of stainless steel decorated with genuine leather, and the display screen has polished sapphire crystal glass. Wow, quite a difference between the technical specs and these ones…
The Avant Garde Skeleton will be available only in 15 pieces…so we are talking about a special limited edition. You already know the price, you’ll just have to wait for the exact availability. 
Gigabyte has just came up with a new device, the tri-band GSM Pocket PC phone with HSDPA support, GSmart MS802. The phone comes equipped with a TFT Touchscreen QVGA color display, a 3 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, and other features.
Features and specifications: smartphone; unique design; HSDPA support; it runs on 520 MHz Marvell processor; Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional; a TFT Touchscreen QVGA color display; MMS and SMS support; Windows Mobile E-Mail; Windwos Live Messenger; a 3 megapixel camera, with auto focus, digital zoom and video recording; MPEG4, 3GPP, and WMV video format support; polyphonic ringtones, with MP3, AAC, WMA, AMR, WAV and MIDI support; GPRS/WAP; external memory slot for microSD card, 256MB ROM and 128MB SDRAM; Bluetooth and USB connectivity; Wi-Fi; FM Radio; GPS.
The Gigabyte MS802 is a nice and good looking smartphone, coming with a lot of useful features. But unfortunately I couldn’t find any information about its price and exact availability. We’ll keep you up-to-date.
AT&T and Pantech have collaborated in order to bring you a new device, the C630, an entry-level candybar device. The C630 is focused on multimedia features and it comes equipped with a 1.3 megapixel camera, with AT&T Video Share support, GPS and many others.
Features and specifications: GSM 800/850/1800/1900MHz, UMTS 850/1900MHz bands; GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA data; a main display of 1.76″ 262k color TFT, and 176×220 pixel resolution; a 1.3 megapixel camera, with video capture and playback; MMS/SMS/IM messaging; E-Mail; Bluetooth connectivity; 64MB internal memory, and microSD card slot; speakerphone; aGPS; voice dialing; MP3/ MIDI/iMelody/MMF/WAV/SMAF/MPEG4/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA/H.263/H.264/AAC+V2 formats support; 104mm x 43mm x 11.7mm, and 79g.
The Pantech C630 will be available starting with the 12th of December, at the price of $39.99, with a 2-year contract.
Nokia 8310 was launched in 2001 and it is considered one of the cutest devices made by Nokia. At that time, the phone was considered even quite expensive.
Features and specifications: compact monoblock; GSM 900 / 1800 network; GPRS data; monochrome, 84 x 48 pixels screen; Infra-red; monophonic ringtones; FM radio; voice commands; predictive text messaging; 2-4 hours talk / 4-16 days standby battery life; 97 x 43 x 19mm, and 84 g. It doesn’t feature Bluetooth, or a camera, or 3G, or other modern features.
As you can see in the images below, the Nokia 8310 was available in many colors, and today, a reconditioned device might cost around €100. Nowadays it is considered a simple device, with classic features, but at that time it was quite a good phone. 
The BlackBerry Storm is now available at Telus, Canada. The nice touchscreen smartphone comes with QWERTY keyboard, SurePress technology, a 3.2 megapixel camera and many others.
Features and specifications: Quad Band EDGE/GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz network; Qualcomm MSM7601 dual core chipset 528 MHz, 256 MHz; a HVGA 3.25” display with the SurePress clickable touchscreen; virtual QWERTY & SureType keyboards; HTML browsers; Bluetooth and USB connectivity; a 3.2 megapixel camera, with flash and video; 1GB of internal memory, an included 8GB memory card and an expandable microSD slot; International Roaming; high speed access to YouTube and Facebook; 3G; UMTS/HSPA; Premium stereo headset; screen wipe; international travel charger; 112.5 x 62.2 x 13.95 mm, and 155g.
The BlackBerry Storm 9530 smartphone is available now at Telus, at the price of $449.99 with a 2-year contract, $549.99 with a 1-year contract, and $599.99 without any contract.
If you want something really special for this Christmas, you can buy a special device that is not a mobile phone. It is the Air Guitar Rockstar device, available through Play.com. With this portable guitar you can become a really good rock player.
The Air Guitar Rockstar is the latest ‘fashion’ for all who love rock music or dream of becoming a rock star. The device is portable and it is made of the neck and headstock of an electric guitar. It also comes with two modes of heavy rocking. With the first one you can play and enjoy 8 classic rock songs, and with the second one you can play with chords, both flat and sharp buttons.
The songs included in this device are: Wild Thing, Smoke On The Water, I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll, One Vision, I Believe In A Thing Called Love, Take Me Out, Change The World and Venus. Those of you who enjoy rock music should be familiar with them.
You can purchase the Air Guitar Rockstar for £7.99, through Play.com. You can also find more information on this site. Enjoy and rock on!
This season, AT&T offers you several feature phones, and one of them is the AT&T Quickfire, equipped with full QWERTY keyboard. It is made by PCD and it also comes with a 1.3 megapixel camera, GPS and AT&T’s TeleNav.
Features and specifications: Quad band GSM, 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, and 850/1900/2100 MHz; full QWERTY keyboard; a display of 2.8” QVGA 260K color TFT screen, and 240 x 320 pixels; 29MB internal memory, expandable; GPS, with AT&T Navigator; a 1.3 megapixel, with up to 4x digital zoom, self portrait mirror, 1280 x 960, 640 x 480 and 320 x 240 pixels resolution, and video; MP3 player; MIDI, MP3, AAC, AAC+ and AMR format support; Bluetooth and USB connectivity; voice memo; Polaris HTML browser and Web-based IM on board; PIM tools like Contacts, Calendar, Alarm, Calculator, Tip Calculator, To Do, World Time, Notepad, Unit Converter, Voice Memo and Stopwatch; 4.3 x 2.2 x 0.7 inches, and 4.8 oz.
The AT&T Quickfire is available through AT&T, at the price of $99.99, with 2-year contract, and at $299.99 without a contract.
We are now announcing you about another luxurious phone, the Vertu Boucheron 150. It is an extremely expensive device and it was created to celebrate French Boucheron jewelry house’s 150th anniversary.
It seems that the phone will be made of a single piece of massive gold, and it is said that about 2,000 hours will be spend for the making of one piece. Well, I strongly believe that the Vertu device will be available in a limited edition. And now the “nice” part….its price! It is estimated to be around $30,000 (or even more). Unfortunately, we, the common people, won’t be able to have or see such a device, but I am quite sure there are people who will pay this price for a golden phone.
We have absolutely no information about its features and specs, but we know that the Vertu Boucheron 150 will come with a luxury wooden case (probably like the one in the picture below).
It looks like the BlackBerry Curve 8900 was officially launched at Rogers, and it is already available. And if you sign a three-year contract, you can have it for $179.99.
Features and specifications: QWERTY keyboard; intuitive icons and menus; password protection; display: 480×360 pixel color, TFT LCD, screen size of 2.44 inches; a 3.2 megapixel camera, with auto focus, image stabilization, flash and 2X digital Zoom, and a Video camera, with 480×352 pixel,in normal mode, and 176×144 pixel, in MMS mode; GPS; BlackBerry maps; Wi-Fi; wireless E-Mail; speaker and microphone; hands-free headset; Bluetooth headset; DivX, XviD (MPEG4 Advance Simple Profile), H.263, WMV3 Video format support; .3gp, WAV, MIDI, AMR-NB, G711u/A, GSM610, PCM, MP3, AAC/AAC+/eAAC+, WMA9/10 Standard/Pro Audio format support; Bluetooth connectivity; 109-60-13.5 mm, and 109.9 g.
The BlackBerry Curve 8900 is already available at Rogers, and online, but you can find more information on their official Web site.
You have probably heard that Mobiado already made some luxurious devices, such as the Camo, Lucido and 105ZAF. Well, if you like these device (and especially if you can afford them!), we are glad to tell you that Mobiado released another device: the 105GMT Gold; and as its name says, it comes with gold-plated elements. And the other special and unique thing about this phone is that it comes with two self-winding Swiss watches, found below the keypad.
The 105GMT Gold comes with materials made of gold, but also with sapphire materials; another version of this phone comes with encrusted diamonds. The phone also comes with dual inset 24K gold plated crowns, brass frame, 5 micron thick 24 karat gold plated CNC machined, sapphire crystal buttons, gold paint, gun metal black stainless steel screws and many more. Wow, and these were only the aesthetics features of the 105GMT Gold phone.
Features and specifications: GSM quad band, and WCDMA dual band network; a 2-inch display; speaker phone; 3G connectivity; a 2 megapixel camera, with video capture; 1GB of internal memory; music and video player; AAC, eAAC+, and MP3 audio formats; micro USB ports; E-Mail; IM; Web browsing; different applications; PIM features; Bluetooth and USB connectivity; 3D shock absorbing system; voice-enabled applications. As you can see, the features are not very special…so the emphasize is put on the design and the aesthetic features.
Mobiado will release only 50 pieces of the 105GMT Gold phone, but unfortunately I couldn’t find anything about its price. Well…..I don’t even want to think about its price…gold, sapphire, diamonds…you figure it out. 
