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    UK Smartphone that costs £7000

    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.
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    Re: Wanna pay 7 grand for a smartphone

    That's less than a cup of bad coffee at Starbucks.
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    Re: Wanna pay 7 grand for a smartphone

    Quote Originally Posted by QIII View Post
    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
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    Re: UK Smartphone that costs £7000

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

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    Re: UK Smartphone that costs £7000

    Wow. I can think of better things to spend £7000 on.
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    Re: UK Smartphone that costs £7000

    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.

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    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.
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    Re: UK Smartphone that costs £7000

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

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    Re: UK Smartphone that costs £7000

    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)

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    Re: UK Smartphone that costs £7000

    Quote Originally Posted by Elfy View Post
    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?
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