£6700 Phone Uses Android Instead of Windows 142
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.
only 1gb ram?? cheaper phones have 2gb (Score:4, Insightful)
only 1gb ram?? cheaper phones have 2gb
You're not supposed to use it (Score:4, Insightful)
You're supposed to be seen with it. To be honest, I'm surprised they didn't buy an Iphone and re-case it from scratch. The market is clearly brand conscious people who get all hot and bothered about overpaying for mediocre performance. How does that not scream Apple?
For $10K, don't give me a 1.5 year old OS. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Why do these phones always suck? (Score:5, Insightful)
The kind of person who would waste that kind of money on a phone merits a phone that sucks.
Re:You're not supposed to use it (Score:3, Insightful)
Because iPhones actually perform well?
Choosing Windows would have been more surprising.. (Score:3, Insightful)
Let's see...should we choose: 1) the most widely used handset OS in the world with a huge number of apps and open-source code or 2) a much less popular proprietary system with more limited functionality, a limited number of apps, and proprietary code owned by one of the most overbearing software companies that has ever existed? Decisions...decisions...
Re:You're not supposed to use it (Score:2, Insightful)
Its all about position. Apple product is just to affordable for these people. Joe public can get an iPhone if he wants one. Might not be the best use of his money but its option for him. These people want to have something you and I just can't touch, or can't touch without make other sacrifices that would make us appear foolish ( you can't roll up in your 12 year old rust bucket and look cool even if you are holding $7000 cell phone to your head ).
I was once out to lunch with my grandfather at the club he belonged too. It was just down the street from a similar institution widely regarded as somewhat more prestigious to which he had once belonged and claimed to have left for personal reasons ( I interpret that as a euphemism for being kicked out of for having opinions deemed to egalitarian). The club we were at was open to anyone who could pay the membership dues and could find a current member to vouch for you, the one he had left generally required you demonstrate you had relation to some old money. We are dining on an upper floor looking out the window, the other place had a roof top dining area. He commented "You know whats funny? here we ware looking down on them and there they are looking down on us."
The point being that arguably we were in better facilities, physically up higher, eating food that was probably of the same high quality; and he was paying less for the privilege. Yet they were very pleased with themselves simply because they belonged to something more exclusive.
Re:Why do these phones always suck? (Score:5, Insightful)
Not really. Lexus cars are always better spec'd than their Toyota counterparts. Same goes for Acura and Infiniti. The specs might not go up linearly with the price, but they are objectively better cars.
Vertu's phones on the other hand are not as good as the iPhone and a lot of Android phones.
The only thing that might justify Vertu's prices are the luxury services that come with the phone (Vertu Concierge), but forcing their customers to use such a crappy handset is a serious drawback that brands like Lexus do not have.
Re:You're not supposed to use it (Score:4, Insightful)
How exactly do you expect them to get a license to use iOS? Apple doesn't give those out, their options are Android or Windows Phone. Of course they're going to choose Android.