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| The $15 million iPhone |
(Scroll down for video) Do you want to be the proud owner of the world’s most expensive iPhone? Now you can, but it will cost you $15 million.
Expensive, high-end smartphones and smartphone cases are nothing new, as Vertu has a $9,600 Android phone and London’s Loutus made a $300,000 iPhone case with crystals. Now, Stuart Hughes, a designer of aftermarket electronics, has surpassed all of the above with a $15 million iPhone 5, that is believed to be the most expensive smartphone in history.
The phone has a solid gold handmade chassis. The real cost comes from is the most expensive home button in the world.
That single home button is a 26-carat black diamond. The diamond is said to be worth $14.5 million.
The diamonds do not stop there. There are 600 white flawless diamonds located on the Apple logo on the back and around the edges.
The phone is not available to the general public.
Hughes spent nine weeks setting up the phone specifically for a Hong Kong businessman who Hughes only referred to as "Joe". Joe had the black diamond for a while and decided he wanted to put it on an iPhone after buying other items, from Hughes in the past.
"I have been commissioned to do all iPhones since the 3G version came out," Hughes said, adding that he gets most of his business through referrals.
“I cannot understand why a person would want to own a $15 million iPhone. The phone can easily be lost. If Joe will lose his phone he will suffer a $15 million lose. Maybe he is rich enough and just doesn’t care about his money,” Belle Mayes, 36, of Las Vegas, Nevada told YourJewishNews.com after hearing about the $15 million iPhone.