The phone, developed with phone maker Mobiado, and dubbed the "CPT002," features a transparent sapphire crystal touch screen framed by platinum sides that contain the electronics, battery, and SIM card. When turned on, familiar Android icons hover in the crystal.
The CPT002, which also unlock an owner's Aston Martin -- sold separately -- on approach, integrates with the car's GPS display, and automatically posts pictures to Facebook and Twitter from car-mounted cameras. In addition, the phone relays accelerometer data to the car in the event of a crash, which helps safety systems deploy more effectively.
All this is in addition to the usual Android apps and social networking capabilities.
The most exciting thing about the CPT002 is how it expands the possibilities for materials and form for smartphones, illustrating what designers could soon do if given the freedom. The thin slab form factor that so many smartphone use is great, but aside from incremental decreases in thickness, there isn't a lot of innovation going on.
For the deep-pocketed, there are plenty of ways to spend big bucks on a swanky mobile device, ranging from Gresso's croc-skin phone, which costs $2800, to jeweler Stuart Hughes' T-Rex Tooth and Polished Meteor iPhone, at around $62,700, to Luxor Las Vegas' Egypt-inspired phone, topping $1 million.
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