It is unclear to me who the type of people who buy "luxury mobile phones" actually are. While brands like Vertu exist rather commonly in the US (from a retail perspective), I have yet to see someone actually using one. Luxury mobile phones offer quality construction with high-end materials. Often times from an internal hardware or performance perspective they aren't very special. In fact, having discussions with those who produce luxury mobile phones makes it clear that they aren't trying to step on the toes of the Blackberrys and iPhones of the world. Luxury mobile phones are "intended" to act as a mobile phone surrogate on weekends when your "work" phone wants to take a rest. As such, luxury mobile phone makers are happy to have their products be a second phone or backup at best. The irony is that due to rapidly evolving technologies, your luxury mobile phone is often going to be out of date by the time it gets out of the box. As such, if you req...