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£6700 Phone Uses Android Instead of Windows

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @05:22AM from the fool-money-separator dept.

judgecorp writes "Vertu, the luxury phone maker formerly owned by Nokia, has chosen Android over Windows Phone for its new £6700 Vertu Ti device. The bling brand is no longer part of Nokia, so is free to shun Windows Phone — apparently because there are not enough apps there for Vertu's rich customers." Previous Vertu handsets used Symbian. Note: £6700 is just over 10,000 USD.

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Vertitude by Empiric · 2013-02-12 05:38 · Score: 5, Funny

Apple should now officially start worrying: Android has cracked a market segment with the stratospheric level of pretentiousness and narcissism that Steve Jobs can now only haunt wistfully from his new no-margin domain.

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Re:You're not supposed to use it by Anonymous Coward · 2013-02-12 05:41 · Score: 4, Funny

[Citation needed]
Ten Grand for a Phone? by Westwood0720 · 2013-02-12 06:59 · Score: 3, Funny

I could buy 20 of my pickup trucks for that much. I must be out of touch with reality.
Re:You're not supposed to use it by greenfruitsalad · 2013-02-12 07:52 · Score: 4, Funny

Because iPhones actually perform well?