Nokia's stunning E71 gets diamond-clad makeover

Nokia's E71 looks perfectly elegant in its Espoo-sourced attire, but there's nothing that can't be made more gorgeous / gaudy with diamonds. Enter Continental Mobiles, which makes its ends by shoving all sorts of glitz and glam onto handsets and charging a ridiculous price. The phone you see above is doused with an undisclosed amount of VS1 quality diamonds, and thus, it'll run you a staggering £5,999 ($9,546). 'Course, it is hand-crafted in England, but you'll have to provide your own bodyguard when taking it to the streets.

[Thanks, Sierra]

[The Walrus @ May 26th 2009 1:28AM]

I hope whoever buys it does so with the greatest amount of irony this amount of money can buy

[TareX @ May 26th 2009 1:34AM]

Looks gorgeous.... I hope those who buy it pay at least 3% of their wealth in charity...

[DirtyVegas @ May 26th 2009 1:37AM]

Ugh. Fugly.

[digitallysick @ May 26th 2009 1:38AM]

Really a good waste of diamonds

[Amrosorma @ May 26th 2009 1:54AM]

And an even worse waste of one of the most beautiful and elegant phones out there.

[TheSuburbanWhiteBoy @ May 26th 2009 1:50AM]

I'd rather spend that much on an iphone

[Anticrawl @ May 26th 2009 1:53AM]

Looks awful, but I'm sure some "urban youths" will love it.

[Lundmark @ May 26th 2009 2:37AM]

What the hell is Espoo? It's mentioned in almost all Nokia posts so you really seem to like the word. A place in Finland?

[Gad Get @ May 26th 2009 2:52AM]

Ain't Google great?

[papari @ May 27th 2009 10:54AM]

Who the hell is Lundmark? Another dumbass Swede mocking their neighbors?

[Lundmark @ May 27th 2009 11:02AM]

Why is it mockery asking about a place? You were right about the former though!

[danotoriousb @ May 26th 2009 2:43AM]

Doesnt look that bad, flame me, I dont care...it just doesnt really look that bad

[darkmax @ May 26th 2009 3:04AM]

Gosh what poor taste!

[DigitalRanker @ May 26th 2009 3:26AM]

Carrying this phone around will be a more serious issue than the network issues!

[superhobo @ May 26th 2009 4:33AM]

the hell?

[r3loaded @ May 26th 2009 4:55AM]

/retch
/clutches own E71 tightly

[E71 @ May 26th 2009 6:16AM]

Screw you Nokia!

[Mark Priestap @ May 26th 2009 10:55AM]

What happens in three years when it's obsolete? Now you've got a diamond studded piece of junk. You can't very well throw it in the recycling bin... I guess it would be nice to give to charity, but the poor recipient would have a security risk.

[geodesigner @ May 26th 2009 2:46PM]

e71 perfection list (discounting things we can hack into it. e.g. N-gage):

->3.5mm Jack
->Accelerometer
->VGA + TV Out
->This logo on back: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nokia_logo_(1865).svg

[Jerry Smith @ Jun 17th 2009 4:45AM]

I think it's ugly.
Why is it always ugly when phone comes with jewelry?
Why