Android Luxury Vertu Ti Announced, Costs $9,600 - $19,900

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]L0tus[/nom]For people complaining about the specs, I'm pretty sure having a sapphire-encrusted phone wins any conversation bragging rights. Boasting about your phone's Quad-core 2 GHz Cortex-A15 is a first class ticket to dying celibate.[/citation]

No, it doesn't win any bragging rights at this point when the phone has a lot of fairly outdated specs. Boasting about a sapphire-based display that has a low resolution is just going to get someone laughed at by anyone who has a clue.

 

[L0tus]

[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]Boasting about a sapphire-based display that has a low resolution is just going to get someone laughed at by anyone who has a clue.[/citation] Anyone who has a clue is not the target social group of someone who buys a 20k phone. This phone isn't about the tech...it's a fashion statement. Not everything is about the latest specs.

 

[battlecrymoderngearsolid]

Silly Silly Vertu, Rich people are mostly ISheep...

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]L0tus[/nom]Anyone who has a clue is not the target social group of someone who buys a 20k phone. This phone isn't about the tech...it's a fashion statement. Not everything is about the latest specs.[/citation]

It doesn't need to have the latest specs. Having specs that are at least overall remotely recent such as at least a 720p screen would at least be HD. Specs that are way outdated in many ways should not be acceptable even on a phone for such a market as these are intended for. Considering that getting proper specs would basically not affect pricing much at all, what could have possibly possessed them to not use top of the line specs or at least overall mid-ranged specs? A phone as nothing more than a fashion statement is just stupid.

 

[freggo]

A 'luxury' phone without name recognition ?
Who the hell does even know what a 'Vertu' phone is ?
Maybe as well a Tarket store brand.

Rolex, Rolls Royce, Cartier... you mention those in the right circles and one knows what it is and represents. But to think some silly, artificially overpriced cell phone can compete... just plain dumb.

 

[L0tus]

[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]A phone as nothing more than a fashion statement is just stupid.[/citation]
iPhone...to some extent :/
[citation][nom]freggo[/nom]to think some silly, artificially overpriced cell phone can compete... just plain dumb.[/citation]The mobile phone industry has no 'luxury' names hence why Vertu is trying to make one. Every luxury brand started somewhere. This phone has been on CNN, BBC etc...they're certainly trying. I for one think the strategy will work...never underestimate people with more money than brains.

 

[lightsol]

But .. .Vertu is NOT new. It has been around for quite a while, and has been craptastic all the way through 😀

 

[Guest]

Sapphire glass isn't really that expensive, it's just Aluminum Oxide (Al2O3) instead of silica and for glass it's manufactured not natural. It is extremely hard (Moh's scale 9) and contrary to what was posted above it wouldn't make anything look blue or blueish at all, manufactured sapphire is clear and colour neutral, it's the impurities that give the colour (rubies and emeralds are just red and green corundums). Having worked with it for 13 years in manufacturing I'm pretty familiar with it.

The phone looks nice and it's made of premium materials, but the price tag, like so many things designed for people with no sense of market value for commodities, is massively overpriced.

 

[bdiddytampa]

For 9,000 - 20,000$ you should get the latest specs lol, 1.2 MP camera? ICS? 480 x 800 Res? DUAL CORE?!?!?!? I mean wow.... just wow...

 

[wavetrex]

[citation][nom]ChiefScooter[/nom]Will it blend?[/citation]

Most likely NOT.
The blender's blade will insta-crack when hitting the titanium/sapphire case.
(Titanium is stronger than Steel)