Expensive and stylish cell phones, now in today’s world, are considered to be a status symbol. A high quality and expensive phones are a symbol of high society (upper class of society) and less expensive phones are supposed to be kept by those people who can afford an extravagant life, life of comforts and leisure.
Every year a lot of new cell phones are launched by the mobile companies to attract its user. When developing any product, it target market is always considered, and so is true for mobile phones.
Today, many cell phones are gold plated and even jewel-encrusted with a spending on more than $100,000 spending. Of course the motive behind creating such mobile phone is to reduce the target market to only rich and wealthy people.
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