For $15m, you too can have this phone

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.

But Stuart Hughes, a longtime designer of aftermarket electronics, has topped them all with a $15m (€11.4m) iPhone 5, believed to be the most expensive smartphone ever made.

The phone has a solid-gold chassis that Hughes crafted by hand. But the real cost comes from the most expensive home button in the world.