Nokia Oro is roofed with 18ct gold at the outside, tinged with Symbian regret inside

Nokia has just unveiled a wierd new beast of a smartphone. Internally, it is your good old C7 — 3.5-inch AMOLED screen, 720p video recording, 8 megapixel camera, a pentaband radio, and Symbian as your zombie OS — but externally it’s taken on a lick of gold paint and a rear cover made from real leather. The cost for a phone built quite so luxuriously is declared to be upwards of €800 ($1,126) before taxes and subsidies and launch is predicted in Q3 in select countries across Europe and Asia. Russia specifically is named out as a successful marketplace for such “premium” phones, with Nokia’s Gabriel Speratti, General Manager for its operations within the country, explaining that:

“We now have a number of users who’re trying to find products with a build quality and superior materials that attest to their success and social standing. In some areas, possession of such premium products is the passport to being taken seriously.”

We need to agree, owning a phone like this may certainly affect your social life, we’re just not so sure it will become a good one.

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