There's an event scheduled on short notice and it is themed on the phrase "LIVE or DIE." Given that Vertu, the company, was liquidated... they said it.
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Vertu inventory under the gavel through 7pm BST
The luxury phone producer is liquidating its assets to pay back a mountain of debt. Much has been lost, but it could all be your gain if you'd like.
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Taco ‘Bout NothingButTech88 | #PNWeekly 261
Jacklyn Dallas is our guest for this week's show as we dish out some fried chicken, gem-encrusted phones and blackberries of a mobile sort.
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Vertu closes for business, immediately liquidates and cuts 200 jobs
The luxury phone maker put leather, alligator skin, gold and jewels to its phones to sell to a richer-than-average crowd.
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TCL enters into $40 million co-manufacturing agreement with luxury phone maker Vertu
The OEM behind many BlackBerry and Alcatel products of late has agreed to bring its "innovative technology" to Vertu's luxury smartphones.
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Another little known company buys luxury phone maker Vertu, this time for a reported $61 million
Founded by Nokia back in 1998, sold to EQT in 2012, then Godin Holdings a couple of years ago, Vertu is now property of Baferton Ltd.
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Latest Vertu Constellation ‘luxury performance’ smartphone actually has pretty solid specs
In addition to a super-snazzy design, the 2017 edition of the luxury Vertu Constellation smartphone brings pretty great internals to the table.
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Luxury Vertu Aster Chevron smartphones run Android 5.1, cost $4,200 apiece
Genuine leather, blingy diamonds and solid gold are the conventional staples of so-called luxury phones, alongside outdated specifications in many cases, as neither manufacturers, nor consumers really care about powerful processors and whatnot.While the refreshed fall 2015 Signature Touch appeared a little more interested than its predecessors in matching its hardware with a stupid high price and extravagant design, Vertu’s newest Android release is back throwing whatever two-year-old parts it could find under a ...
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Mystery Chinese firm acquires luxury phone maker Vertu, another secure OS in the works
Just three years after purchasing the nichey business from Nokia, and a little over a month on the heels of the high-end Signature Touch announcement, private Swedish equity group EQT decided to cash in on Vertu. Or perhaps salvage what was left of the 2012 €200m investment, as only around 450,000 of these opulent, ultra-expensive phones were sold in the company’s entire 13-year existence.Granted, you have to assume the profit margins on a $10K 2015 Signature Touch, $6,000 Constellation, or $9,000+ Ti greatly ...
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Finally, a luxury, crazy expensive Vertu Signature Touch with specs to match
Apple, Samsung and even LG and Huawei tend to throw around pompous marketing terms like “premium” or “luxury” with regard to not-so-extravagant smartphones or smartwatches all the time. At least not-so-luxurious by Vertu standards, as the once Nokia-owned British company has a long tradition of catering to truly the most snobbish, privileged of global mobile consumers.What’s always been odd about devices like the Ti, Constellation or Signature Touch is they never tried to compete against mainstream flagship handhelds on the latter category’s terms.Sure, Vertus shined with ...
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Apple experimented with sapphire iPhone screens, rejected them
Synthetic sapphire crystals have one big thing going for them: they are fantastically resistant to scratching. That might make them seem like the ideal material for a smartphone display – and we’ve already seen them in luxury phones like those from Vertu – but they’re also not without their problems: they’re expensive to produce, and though they have excellent protection against scratches,
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Vertu’s $10,000 Android Could Have Been a Windows Phone 8 Model
When we heard about the super-expensive Vertu Ti earlier this week, we focused mainly on its middling specs, and how we really hoped for something a little better for $10,000. Today there’s a new interview out with Vertu’s head of concept and design, Hutch Hutchinson, and while he spends some time predictably defending the company’s choices in creating the Ti, he also drops a new bombshell: there was a time when Vertu was planning to bring to develop the Ti as a Windows Phone 8 handset. While ...
The Pocketnow Weekly Podcast, Episode 031
Rarely has the “lull” between trade shows given us so much to talk about. We kicked off the week with an exciting announcement welcoming two new members to the Pocketnow team, and since then we’ve barely been able to keep news, editorials, and videos on the front page long enough to read them. This feed is on fire. From ever-strengthening rumors about the HTC M7 and Samsung Galaxy S IV, to interviews with newcomers like Jolla, to new looks at old friends with BlackBerry 10, to ...
Shouldn’t $10,000 Buy a Better Smartphone Than the Vertu Ti?
Luxury smartphones can be real let-downs. Sure, there’s the occasional model like the Porsche Design P’9981 BlackBerry, which while it costs $2000, is still essentially a Bold 9900, probably the best BlackBerry around when the P’9981 launched. On the other hand, there seem to be far too many of these boutique phones that, when you get down to brass tacks, just aren’t that impressive as smartphones, with surprisingly lower-end specs. That’s the vibe we’re ...