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Luxury Phone Brand Vertu Launches Its First Android-Powered Smartphone– For Those With $ 10,000 + To Spend
Author: Jon Daniels
Vertu, the formerly-owned-by-Nokia maker of eye-wateringly costly, leather-clad, gem-encrusted, handmade-in-the-U.K. ‘ luxury ’ smartphones, has launched an Android-powered gadget: the Vertu Ti. After leaving the Nokia fold, back in October, it was rumored that Vertu planned to do what many a Nokia fan still wishes that business would do: ditch Symbian and adopt Android. Today Vertu revealed its
first Android-powered phone, in addition to a new slogan: “ Handmade in England. Powered by Android ”. The Vertu Ti runs Android 4.0, skinned with a dedicated Vertu UI. The smartphone expenses from a whopping EUR7,900 — approaching $ 11,000 — for which you also get a 3.7 inch “ virtually scratchproof sapphire crystal screen ”; a grade 5 titanium strong-but-lightweight casing; a dual-core 1.7 GHz processor and 1GB of RAM; an 8 megapixel rear camera with 1080p video capture plus a 1.3 megapixel front-facing lens; 64GB of internal memory; and ‘ Bang & Olufsen tuned ’ sound. What you wear ’ t get: 4G. Speaking to the BBC, Vertu CEO Perry Oosting described why
the company decided to embrace Android, as opposed to follow Nokia ’ s lead and choose Microsoft ’ s Windows Phone platform. “ You have to be part of an environment, ” he stated. ” Your gadget will need to incorporate with other devices. I think the Windows phone will have success but it is still a relatively small market share. At the moment it doesn ’ t have the international reach of Android — which is about 60 per cent of the market. ” Oosting didn ’ t mention Android ’ s openness to being personalized however Microsoft ’ s rejection to allow mobile makers to
skin Windows Phone with their very own UIs might well rule out any luxury brand tie-ins, because Windows Phone currently offers restricted scope for branding — beyond being able to show a top quality homescreen Live Tile. In spite of (lastly) reaching the conclusion that ecosystems are king, Vertu still certainly sells to a very special club of buyers — with big amounts of cash to invest on a phone. There are simply 326,000 Vertu smartphone owners worldwide after 10 years in the market, according to the BBC. China is stated to be Vertu ’ s biggest market.
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No Comments »Do Or Die, Santa: $2.4 Million 5-Person Luxury Sub ‘Limo’
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This is the U-boat Worx ‘C Explorer 5′ (U for underwater, C for sea, 5 for five passenger). It’s a $ 2.5 million luxury submarine WITH AIR CONDITIONING AND LEATHER SEATS. And for you cheapskates trying to save a buck, no, pleather isn’t an option. It’s being billed as the first submarine limo even though that’s ridiculous and it doesn’t even have wheels.
The $ 2.4 million C-Explorer 5 is being advertised as the “world’s first subsea limousine.” It holds five people, has an air conditioning system, can dive down to 1,000 feet, and sports a full 360-degree acrylic pressure hull. Cruising speed is 3 knots underwater.
If the standard features aren’t enough, you can add to the price tag with options like an iPod sound system, bow-mounted LED lights, a sampling arm, an HD video camera system, imaging sonars, or an underwater modem. Make your next scientific adventure a luxurious one.
Come on, there isn’t even a mini-bar option? That makes for one CRAPPY limo if you ask me. I don’t care if you can go on underwater mermaid viewing tours, I want to be drunk while I’m doing it. “Just bring a flask.” Fine — FINE.
Three hours later…
*banging on glass* SHOW US YOUR BOOBS.
Hit the jump for shots from all around and one of the interior.
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Sony coats Xperia P in 24-carat gold, keeps up tradition of so-so phones in luxury shells
Author: Christen Arquette
Outside of custom projects, the primary guideline for draping phones in exotic materials is that they must never ever, ever before be really high end devices: at finest, they ought to involve mid-tier equipment that could possibly be eclipsed by a garden-variety smartphone at a fraction of the price. Sony’s maintaining that all too time-honored heritage by producing a gold-coated, 24-carat variation of … the Xperia P. Yes, instead of fix up a crown jewel like the James Bond-approved Xperia T, Sony has actually instead provided the privilege treatment to a smartphone with a strictly middling 4-inch display and dual-core 1GHz processor. In fairness, the business sees this as an experiment rather than a Vertu-like professional design, with the intent strictly to emphasize the unibody design. A maximum 15 have actually been constructed as an outcome– and rather than count on impulse purchases from oligarchs, Sony hints that it’s providing a minimum of some of its gold Xperia P stock to followers on Facebook. As long as there’s no pretenses of living the high life with exactly what’s truly a very common phone below, we’re satisfied.
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Luxury family Villa, 5 bedrooms near Golf, Beach and Centre – Lagos
Author: Stefanie Jenkins
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Luxury Smartphone Brand Vertu Keeps Current CEO, Names Nokia Alum Anssi Vanjoki Chairman
Author: Jenny Zhao
Nokia finally handled to offload its luxury-oriented Vertu brand name to private equity firm EQT-VI late last week, but the parties involved appeared content to keep quiet at the time. Not so anymore– Vertu has actually just issued an formal declaration on the matter, and dropped a bit of brand-new light on its executive framework going forward.
Sources informed TechCrunch late last week that Nokia alum Anssi Vanjoki would certainly take over Vertu’s CEO spot, however that no longer seems to be the instance. Instead, he has been appointed chairman of a new, non-executive board meant to support present Vertu chief Perry Oosting as he continues to run the tv show.
So just what ’ s next for the freshly transferred business unit? Vertu’s statement also points to the existence of a “strong item roadmap in development,” though there was no additional explanation on the matter. The business is most likely best known for deceiving out otherwise droll function phones with ludicrously ostentatious trim (to their credit, they never ever took the simple path and blinged up commonly-available hardware), however current equipment ventures like the Constellation line have actually underlined a shift in the business’s understanding of the mobile market. Paying a ludicrous sum of cash for a phone is one thing, but paying an unbelievable amount of money for a phone that’s technically inferior to more common gadgets does not seem to be a viewpoint Vertu will be sticking to for much longer.
To wit: current rumblings point to Vertu’s adoption of Android for use in powering its future mobile phones. It’s a savvy move, if real– it ’ s very adjustable for one (which indicates that Vertu owners might soon have a gaudy smartphone UI to go with their gadget ’ s gaudy industrial design), not to mention that the shift could finally put Vertu hardware on the very same level as additional contemporary mobile phones. Then once more, I ’ m not sure how many individuals in fact got Vertu handsets for their capability, so who knows how this will all play out.
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Uber adding low-cost hybrid cars to its luxury fleet
Author: Brandon Zimmerman
Uber, the app that lets you hire a luxury cab from your phone, is adding hybrid cars that will cost up to 35 percent less than its current fleet. The new service, called Uber X, will still be around 10 to 25 percent more expensive than a regular taxi, but far cheaper than the 40 to 100 percent premium that customers are charged for a traditional town car. Travis Kalanick, the company’s chief executive, tells The New York Times that the hybrid cars are “the first big step Uber is taking to go to the masses.” The company already offers a low-cost cab service in Chicago, but it does look as though Uber X will be a more widespread initiative.
The new hybrid options will be offered to customers in New York and San Francisco from Wednesday,…
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Tonino Lamborghini launches ‘Luxury’ phones for low-spec loving Russians with deep pockets
Author: Margo Tipton
Much like Porsche Design before it, this isn’t strictly the auto-maker (in this case it’s the son of the famous sports car mogul) releasing a phone. However, these are devices (three phones and a tablet) which bear the family name. Russian site Hi-Tech Mail got a good look at two feature phones (which look remarkably familiar,) the TL688 and TL820, sporting 2- and 2.4-inch displays, along with 3- and 5-megapixel cameras and 4GB and 1GB (expandable) storage respectively. Their main selling point evidently being the hand made gold plate and leather finish. There is a TL700 smartphone, too, which runs on not-so-sporty Android Gingerbread, with an unspecified Qualcomm processor, 3.7-inch 800 x 480 display and 5-megapixel shooter. This one ups the flash-factor some, boasting diamond processed metal and “elements” of crocodile skin.
The tablet is known as the Lamborghini L2800 and has a 9.7-inch 1024 x 768 resolution screen, 1.2GHz Qualcomm processor, 512MB of RAM, and 4GB onboard storage (expandable). How much does all this sense-defying technology cost? Well, the feature phones start at 60,000 rubles, (about $ 1,829) or you can snap up the Android for 30,000 more (about $ 2,743) and treat yourself to the L2800 tablet for a reasonable 75,000 rubles (about $ 2,286). Of course, you’ll have to drive to Russia to get your hands on them, sometime in late August, but we’re guessing if you’re in the market for one of these, that’ll barely dent the plastic anyway.
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Nokia could sell luxury Vertu brand to VC firm for $265 million
Author: Brian McKinnell
As much as it’d be interesting to see Windows Phone running on a $ 21,000 gold-plated cigar lighter, that’s probably never going to happen. According to the UK’s Financial Times, Nokia has been trying to hive off its luxury Vertu brand for months already, and has finally found a suitor with the right cash / sense ratio. Although still far from a done deal, we’re told that venture capitalist firm Permira is willing to contribute up to $ 265 million to Nokia’s needy coffers — which might sound like a lot, but is mere costume jewelry to a manufacturer that just lost $ 1.7 billion.
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