How is it to own a gold painted phone? One can easily become paranoid and it certainly isn't a phone to take around with you in your local bar or at any other events. Be sure that in 5 minutes after your first conversation, your phone is gone. What if you accidentally throw it to the ground? Nokia phones are resistant by tradition, but you won't let your gold on the ground. Anyway, some economists have suggested that in time of economic crisis the best investments are those in gold, how about a 18 carat gold painted phone?

Nokia has released a new luxury phone, the Nokia N97 Mini. The phone comes with 18 carat gold painting and due to its high price, the handset is available only in a limited edition. The luxury version of the Nokia N97 Mini is available with the same specs as the „ungolded” device.

The phone comes with a 3.2 inch TFT resistive touchscren with 16 million colors capable of boasting a 360 x 640 pixel resolution. It also incorporates a full QWERTY keyboard, proximity sensor for auto turn-off and handwriting recognition.

The handset is available with 8GB internal memory and a microSD memory card support for up to 16GB of extra storage space. It has 128 MB RAM and is powered by an ARM 11 434MHz processor making the phone work on Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5

The handset comes with 3G HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps support, microUSB 2.0, WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP connectivity support. Nokia N97 Mini incorporates a Li-Ion 1200 mAh BL-4D battery capable of offering up to 7 hours talk time and 320 hours in stand-by mode.

The Gold Nokia N97 Mini is available on Nokia stores for £599.