UK Smartphone that costs £7000

[haqking]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21387371


The Vertu Ti costs 7,900 euros (£6,994) and is made at the firm's headquarters in Church Crookham, Hampshire.
The device had a titanium frame and sapphire screen but was not 4G-enabled, said its designer Hutch Hutchison.
Until last year the company was owned by Nokia and specialised in highly priced handsets designed for the Symbian operating system.
Vertu had chosen Android over Windows as an operating system because it was more established, chief executive Perry Oosting told the BBC.


Edit: Changed title, as it sounded like spam

[QIII]

That's less than a cup of bad coffee at Starbucks.

[haqking]

That's less than a cup of bad coffee at Starbucks.

for 7 grand, I want an app that makes me coffee oooh and that Starbucks banana bread ;)

[jockyburns]

For £7000, I'd want it installed in a nice car (which came free with the phone) :D :D :D :D

[CharlesA]

Wow. I can think of better things to spend £7000 on.

[Copper Bezel]

I'm not going to claim to understand it, but I think the idea of spending £7000 on something like this is to prove that you can spend £7000 on something like this.

I am I understanding the concierge service correctly in that it's like Siri, except that it's a real person being paid to talk to you?

[lisati]

Things might have been different back in the days of the original Motorola "brick", when mobile phone technology was in a younger incarnation, but these days I have a hard time accepting the idea that you'd actually need a phone that cost more than $200.

[Elfy]

I've got half a dozen of the things kicking around in a drawer somewhere, they're rubbish - not one has a dial :|

[fdrake]

i can buy 12 galaxy SIII with the same price. overall I think the price is fair since it is not a mass production product, therefore it is expensive for the manifacturer to built(probably around 2k per unit)

[lisati]

not one has a dial
What's a dial? Is that one of those new-fangled gizmos that the phone company installed into my parents' phone in the early 1970s?

[sdowney717]

Not one of them has a dial tone, meaning they don't work.

IMO

[Bucky Ball]

That's less than a cup of bad coffee at Starbucks.

You mean they serve good coffee? Kicked out of Australia for their appalling treatment of employees, along with the fact that Australians know good coffee and that ain't it (apparently; I haven't had a coffee in over thirty years but you don't forget what a good coffee smells like). ;)


Not one of them has a dial tone, meaning they don't work.

IMO

No idea how that relates. Thought the discussion was about the dial, not the dial tone ... blah.

Any smart phone with that price tag had better be smarter than me, and probably Stephen Hawking and Einstein.

[lisati]

<anecdote>
Back in the 1960s, my family had to make do without a dial on the phone, all calls went through an operator. Then some time around 1970 or 1971, the phone company started upgrading the gear, part of which was to install dials in subscriber's phones. Our family phone ended up being a locally made copy of the illustrated British model. A couple of years later, at about age 12 or 13, I managed to see inside the shiny new automatic exchange that was about to be brought into service.
</anecdote>