Luxury mobile phone to be launched

[Jazzy]

A luxury, hand-made mobile phone is to be launched with an eye-watering five-figure price tag.

Vertu's Ti is a titanium-cased, sapphire crystal-screened Android smartphone that will set back the discerning punter up to £14,200.



It is the latest high-end phone by the British company, formerly part of Nokia until it was sold to private equity outfit EQT last year.



It hit the headlines in 2002 offering a £15,000 Nokia phone available in 18-carat gold, white gold and top-of-the-range platinum cases.



Perry Oosting, Vertu's president and chief executive, said: Vertu Ti is our most significant product for a decade. The Android OS (operating system) delivers a proven and intuitive environment for users while the design and craftsmanship of the handset is still uniquely Vertu.



Vertu has pioneered and led the luxury mobile phone sector since we began in the late 90s and the great depth of our knowledge and experience can be seen in Vertu Ti. There is nothing else like it.



Prices for the handset start at £6,800, for the Titanium Black Leather model, rising to £14,200 for a version in red gold. Each one is hand-made and signed by a single craftsman at the company's factory in Church Crookham, near Fleet in Hampshire.



Its specifications put it alongside most other smartphones on the market, with an eight megapixel rear camera with flash, a 1.3MP front-facing camera and 64MB of internal memory.



The company claims its 3.7in sapphire crystal screen is virtually scratch proof and tested to be four times stronger than other smartphones against impacts. The company also claims its titanium case is around five times stronger than other smartphones.

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Want one?

 

[Geoffrey]

I remember when any mobile phone was a luxury, okay I was like 5 but still. Now it seems to be a necessity almost.



I wouldn't pay for this though, it doesn't even look that great and if I'm paying that much for a phone (or anything), it has to be and look fabulous.

 

[Evil Eye]

Now it seems to be a necessity almost.

Strange isn't it?

I wouldn't pay for this though, it doesn't even look that great and if I'm paying that much for a phone (or anything), it has to be and look fabulous.

But that would just get it stolen!

 

[Geoffrey]

Strange isn't it?

But that would just get it stolen!

If I had a phone that cost that much, it would be theif bait no matter what it looked like.

 

[Evil Eye]

Only if someone knew what it was worth... and even then, I doubt it'd be very easy to sell.

 

[Geoffrey]

Only if someone knew what it was worth... and even then, I doubt it'd be very easy to sell.

It could still be stolen. There's a thief out there for anything.