Carbon fiber, titanium, polished glass and stainless steel are materials conventionally associated with fast cars. This time however, the words function to describe a completely different trendy device – the Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte, the latest addition to Nokia's range-topping 8800 series.

Nokia borrows cues from its luxury mobile arm Vertu in its latest rendition of the Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte. There's no groundbreaking features such as 10-megapixel camera to speak of but these are never the reasons for getting a Vertu in the first place, and so the same goes for the Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte.

No doubt, at 1,100 euros, the latter is but a fraction of the price of a Vertu but the combination of sleek design and superb craftsmanship makes this phone both a winner and a definite show-stopper. And you can get your hands on one of these in the third quarter of 2008.

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via T3 / Gizmodo