Gold & leather-clad luxury iPhone

Goldstriker, the UK firm that specialises in adding extra luxury (and exclusivity) to personal electronics, have unveiled their latest 24ct tweak to the iPhone range: a leather and gold re-trim of the Apple handset. Adding the sort of hide you'd usually find cladding the seats of a Ferrari or Bentley, together with lashings of real gold, the company also adds quite a bit to the iPhone's price tag: they're estimating it'll be around £900 ($1,800) when it goes on sale at the end of April.

Still, for that you know you're getting one of just 250 handsets, with a choice of different coloured leathers that includes ivory, black and, as pictured above, red. It's part of Goldstriker's "ShSh! luxury leather" collection, so expect to see more cellphones and PMPs bearing a cow-skin coat soon.

The company recently unveiled gold and platinum versions of Samsung's Armani and Nokia's 7900 Prism and 8800 Arte.