More than a year after the company officially declared bankruptcy, Vertu has risen from the dead to announce their very latest luxury smartphone with a $5,000 price tag.
This shouldn’t come as any surprise, but following reports of trouble last month, it’s today been confirmed that luxury Android smartphone maker Vertu is closing up shop, leaving the world’s richest smartphone buyers to look elsewhere.
The beauty of Android is its versatility. You can spend hundreds on a smartphone and get something beautiful, fast, and up to anything you throw its way. Or, you can spend $100 and get something that gets the job done and nothing more. At the same time, you can also spend $20,000 on a phone if you want, but it seems hardly anyone has…
In the early days of cellular telephones, phone carriers rampantly took smartphones from OEMs and branded them with logos and their own names. In 2016, British car company Bentley slapped a “3D logo” on an expensive Vertu smartphone, added a little bit of exclusive content, and called it a day…