Expensive, high-end smartphones or smartphone cases are nothing new — Vertu’s got a $9,600 (€7,200) Android phone and London Loutus made a $300,000-plus iPhone case with crystals.

NEED a new mobile? Then why not join the queue - which includes celebrity actress Gwyneth Paltrow - for a new phone costing up to 23,000 euro each?

Nokia has announced it is to begin making hand-crafted mobiles for the rich.