Heads up, affluent sect. The immensely pricey Professional 105 line is expanding, as two new members slip in to tempt your stuffed wallet. Mobiado's Professional 105 EM is available in Cocobolo and Ebony, and the frame is even constructed from anodized aluminum; you'll also notice sapphire crystal buttons and a black finish. As for the Professional 105 GCB, it's layered with a 5-micron thick 24-karat gold plating and jazzed up with a fancy logo 'round back. Both candybars feature quad-band GSM support, a measly 1GB of internal storage space and a ho hum 2-megapixel camera, but fret not, as it'll (very likely) be the most expensive lackluster cellphone you'll ever pay for.

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Vertu isn't the only game in town when you're looking to blow thousands on a handmade designer handset, and believe it or not, it's not the only game in town when you're looking for a Series 40 luxury phone, either. Mobiado crafts lovely shells of premium materials (you know, like steel) around the same guts that power Nokia's latest standard-issue dumbphones, producing devices that are more exclusive than they are powerful -- but let's be honest, power isn't necessarily what Mobiado's clientele is going for. The company's new Professional 105 ZAF takes its lengthy name in part from the fact that this is the "thinnest luxury phone in the world" at just 10.5 millimeters and features a 2 megapixel camera, 3G radio on the 2100MHz band, microUSB connector, and -- get this -- a battery cover "made entirely from one piece of sapphire crystal." If that's not form before function, we really don't know what is. Though it's not available in the US, the Professional 105 ZAF should be showing up shortly in boutiques around the world in a choice of six conspicuous shades.

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Ah yes, nothing makes more sense than an outlandishly priced handset coupled with a flight credit for a private jet charter service. The roar of the Bluestar Jets aircraft and the inability to call while in flight will make this pricey duo a sure hit with the millionaire club. Starting now, Mobiado and Bluestar will throw in a $1,000 credit for a flight, exclusive pricing, direct contacts with the airline, and access to some 4,000 aircraft with each handset purchased. Touting the service as "Any jet. Any time. Any place" they guarantee an aircraft anywhere in 4 hours. We're almost ready to call 'em on it too, we just need to save up the other $38,000 beans for our flight from Ottawa to New York. Pics and more info in the next 15 years or so when we're good to go.

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If your money clip is flush with the green stuff and Vertu's offerings are a little too... shall we say, flashy, the Mobiado Stealth might just be right up your alley. The Russian firm known as much for its mobile perfume and silly accessories as it is for its luxury handsets has released details on what might be the lowest-key bespoke phone on the market, the appropriately-named "Stealth." The under-the-radar mobile is fashioned from aircraft aluminum, stainless steel, and sapphire crystal and is limited to a total run of 1,200 (though we imagine Mobiado could have its arm twisted into making a few more if the price was right) and features triband GSM / EDGE and WCDMA on the 2100MHz band; HSDPA support isn't specified, so we imagine the 3G action is limited to UMTS. Other priceless features include a QVGA display, 2 megapixel camera, microSD expansion, Bluetooth, and integrated media player -- in other words, the exact same stuff you get on a $50 on-contract piece from the carrier of your choice. The price of exclusivity these days, eh?

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If you're carrrying around a Mobiado Luminoso cell phone, it's a safe bet you might be interested in Bissol's brass-encased 4GB flash drives -- so why not jack the ritz factor by combining them in Mobiado's new battery cover for the Luminoso, which features a storage / display compartment for the included drive? That's right -- Mobiado asked itself what its customers wanted, and came up with a custom battery cover that only holds an opulent brass flash drive. Damn, we knew we weren't exactly the target market, but you'd think they'd at least try to go quadband first.

Mobiado's been kicking around for a while now, serving up luxo-phones to the world's elite; while they aren't Vertus, they still hang onto a certain Nokia flair thanks to Series 40 guts. The newly-christened "Luminoso" is no exception, packing tri-band GSM (no 850) and UMTS 2100 atop S40 3rd Edition -- which should look pretty hot thanks to a QVGA display. Other features in its stainless steel body include Push To Talk, Bluetooth, a 2 megapixel shooter, and a microSD slot to supplement the forgettable 6MB of internal storage. No word on pricing, but we suspect this is one of those "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" deals. Shipments should start going out mid-January.

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"Why, Bill, your cologne -- I, I can only assume you're toting a luxury cellphone." Les hommes should supposedly expect such provocative complements when donning Mobiado's newest venture, Perfume No. 919, created in cooperation with fragrance guru Bissol. The target demographic for this pricey liquid ($300) is quite literally "luxury mobile phone users" of the male persuasion; what we don't understand, however, is what that smells like or why we'd want to duplicate it. At any rate, if this all makes sense to you but you're worried about spilling your precious eau du mobile in shipment, fear not; Perfume No. 919 comes bottled with "a double industrial o-ring seal system to prevent leaks."

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