Rumours: Luxury mobile brand, Vertu with Windows Phone?
Vertu is pure luxury brand of mobile phones, and is a subsidiary of Nokia. The materials and concierge service make them unreachable for many. One of my obscenely rich housemates in uni really wanted one of these, despite the platform in use not being all that exciting (it wasn’t even Symbian then) it was interesting because it was unattainable for the general public.
As @UVStaska tweeted, Vertu did begin warming up to Symbian, with a E72 version pretty much in Vertu styling (Vertu Constellation Quest). You might think of Nokia Oro as luxury Symbian but that’s part of Nokia line up (and no where near the level of Vertu class devices anyway). Not that folks with that amount of money to spend on blinged out devices would need a smartphone platform anyway (being priced in the thousands, some tens of thousands, and the most expensive in the hundres of thousands GBP).
Staska wondered what’s going to happen to Vertu with Symbian making its way out. Vlad from Engadget once mentioned before that the N9 in black was so exquisite it should be part of the Vertu line up. Rumours are suggesting Vertu might appear with Windows Phone.
Never heard of Vertu with touch. What will it do with no buttons to deck in gold? I guess Windows Phone would be a good choice to put in Vertu. Simple, stable, fast, solid core smartphone features. (No, I doubt these would be the drag and drop, connecting to a laptop for wired modem mode type people).
Have you ever seen (or gosh, owned?) a Vertu handset in real life?
By rumours, WMPU and Uswitch who both cite Eldar.
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windows phone vertu? hah.
for sure better fit that current symbian though.. we’ll see after belle.
Symbian fits nicely in vertu and it’s own service ecosystem beside they can cover security and privacy issues for rich people when they control the whole software.
never understood the desire for vertu devices… sure some of them looked okay… but wtf?
my uncle has the ferrari edition.. its nice… but as a device? eh…. no thx
sure there’s the concierge service free for 1 year? but come on….
didn’t realize they made an E72 edition… wow -_-
But if you’re going with a Niche phone a Niche OS would fit
Can you ask your uncle to send me some money please? :p
Its just one of those things – if money is not an issue in anything or just want to show off/pretend (often the latter) you are a person of unlimited means…
Yep. My brother in law has that Ferrari one too. He’s an architect and it was a gift from his dad to show off to clients.
Told him it was a monumental waste of money, buy I guess all that really means is that I’m not rich enough.
Eldork is so full of s*it!
I always that Vertu phones were to the kind of people who don’t usually interact with a PC on a regular basis. That is why they were with custom OS until the E72 and E52 based devices arrived in 2010.. Not sure if WP fits that bill yet.. Even though the 3-color home screen of WP would fit it fine..
vertu + wp7 = powa
i don believe in eldar murtzain.
Why in earth would anyone with even one braincell consider a Vertu phone, I simply don’t get it. There are a ton of phones on the market miles better than any Vertu phone ever made.
Status symbol. ’nuff said methinks?
i could say the sam ething about an iphone XD
I think there still will be a Symbian Touch Vertu before a WP7 Vertu.
I think WP7 would make sense for Vertu, for so many reasons, I think it would fit the Vertu target market well. But I hope Nokia keep Symbian for the E Series.
I don’t doubt Vertu will go WP7. But has anyone checked with Eldar about a touchscreen Symbian Vertu before Vertu goes WP7?
Meego in! Stick a piece of laser cut diamond on top of a 24 karat gold!
Kick asss!
I dont think microsoft and luxury go together. WP7 is nice for some bu u would kill the luxury line with a microsoft branding.
Microsoft doesnt have the image to put that off
I’m using Sympian Belle and it should really work as a Virtue OS , full of features yet very pretty and simple now … Even the language used in menus are now border lining the speaking to an idiot language.
Change Nokia at the back of the Black N9 to Vertu
Why people wants win 7? Nobody likes Microsoft.
Whoever likes Nokia, how can you tolerate they dealt with such a hideous company like Microsoft?
Go android!
Vertu is for ppl who love class and elegance not the typical tech savvy crowd so no windows crap plz