Would you pay $20k for a phone?

Very smart phone ... this is the new $20,000 'Vertu for Bentley' smartphone. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied

BRITISH luxury car maker Bentley has teamed up with Nokia fashion brand Vertu to create a £10,700 ($19,550) smartphone — the price of 20 new iPhones.

Swathed in quilted calf leather with the metal 'B' wings motif on the face, the 'Vertu for Bentley' mobile is the king of smartphones.

Handcrafted from grade-5 titanium and solid sapphire crystal, the very smart phone has a concierge service entitling owners to exclusive 24/7 assistance, from booking tickets to making dinner reservations.

Each tan-coloured phone is handmade by a single worker at the company's UK headquarters, who etches their signature onto the back cover.

Internally, you get an Android operating system with a 64GB memory and a 2.3GHz processor which, according to The Telegraph in the UK, is matched by much cheaper phones such as the Samsung Galaxy S5.

The British paper also reports Vertu's previous models have sold well in Russia, Asia and the Middle East.

You wish ... the 2010 Bentley Continental GT Speed Coupe. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied

"The partnership between Bentley and Vertu allows customers to experience the Bentley brand while out of the driving seat," Kevin Rose, Bentley sales and marketing director, said.

"The look and feel of the handset is a consequence of a strong collaboration between the Bentley and Vertu creative teams. The handset's design and materials, when coupled with its exclusive services, integrated Bentley content and high-performance technology, embody what both Bentley and Vertu stand for, and deliver what our customers are looking for."

WHAT YOU GET

Size: 145mm, 69mm, 10.65mm

Weight: 192g

Operating system: AndroidTM 4.4 (KitKat)

Processor: Qualcomm SnapdragonTM 801 2.3GHz quad-core

Screen: 4.7in, 1080p, 473 dpi, protected by sapphire crystal

Cameras: 13 megapixel (rear), 2.1 megapixel (front)