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Does you want a cell phone that makes a statement? Consider Vertu. But don't call it a cell phone. The web site insists on 'Instrument'! And why not? It has sapphire-hinged keys! A sapphire crystal face! All time readouts are in analog format! The case is available in combinations of steel, leather, gold, and platinum! A button on the side give you instant access to a Concierge, who will help you find other ways to spend your money! And the best model costs a mere 24,000 euros (a little over US$21,000)!
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  • First: it's an example of conspicous consumption! Second: it's a cell phone!
    Third: it's a cell phone that plays music and does other annoying things!

    Woopie, I'm just dying to get my hands on one! >:(
  • Verto's site is Crap...notice the capital c.
    The attempt at an upscale image just comes of looking stupid and artificial. I could not stick around long enough to wade the the flash crap to even see the product...
    • You must have a slow connection. If you can't afford DSL, how can you afford a $20,000 cell? It's not a bug, it's a feature!
      • on a T1, was not loading speed, was the useless flash crap that made me turn away. As to paying for a 20K cell phone you are correct. Hell I won't pay for the one I am forced to carry as part of work.
      • I completely agree. Just the fact that a site requires me to go get flash (which I fscking despise) before I can even enter turns me away. I went to the site, saw "Flash 5 required", and hit the back button. Here I am again.

  • Wow. (Score:1)

    by Penis ( 301334 )
    Now that is one pretentious piece of hardware.
    (And, as an added bonus, the site had one of the most annoying designs I've seen in a long time!)
  • Uh, WHY is the analog clock just an LCD?

    Oh big whoop they have an analog clock displayed ON AN LCD. Like THAT has never been done before. . . .

    If I am paying over 20k for a cell phone with an 'analog clock' in it it had better have a REAL analog clock, perferably by some famous swiss guy who's name I could never ever hope to pronounce.

    Highly over priced. What are the contacts on the button made of? Are they of the same quality as those old IBM keyboards? Those things rocked.

    Is it f*cking bullet proof? More to the point, is it stainless steel reinforced? No? Too bad.

    (not that I could ever afford a 20k+ phone anyways! LOL)
  • The site is cheap in specifications.. and think.. how useful is the phone when you got no reception? Just plainly overpriced

    My dream cellular would support:

    1. Extensive filtering - Will allow various filtering according to the current profile setting. Like, a mode where only friends can call me.. a mode which rejects unidentified callers or demands them to give the password. Such features might be more useful if they are implemented at the server side.
    2. Profiles - like in the Nokia phones. Such a useful feature. You can put your phone in "one ring", "silent" or "friends only" profile.
    3. Verbosity on technical details - I want to know what's the reception, when is the phone is receiving a ping request from the server, etc.
    4. Big memory for contacts and SMS messages - Nokia phones usually limits you and it's so annoying.. epsecially the 20 SMSs limit.
    5. Easy ringtone editing - SK phones are good in that, allowing you to import polyphony MIDI files into the phone as ringtones. However, they have no profiles which is a big drawback. (I can't find SK's site. Screw them for choosing such a short name..)
    6. Unlimited groups - In my Nokia, I can specify 5 groups of people which will generate different ringtones. I want more!
    7. Email - less important, though. I could send emails through excell.to, but they seem to be down.
    8. Meddling with the operating system or upload my own programs - Seems that Nextel [nextel.com] (or Amigo in Israel) phones support Java programs. However, I don't know how much control over the phone those Java programs can have.
    Is that enough? I might have more wishes but I forgot them.
    • Meddling with the operating system or upload my own programs - Seems that Nextel (or Amigo in Israel) phones support Java programs. However, I don't know how much control over the phone those Java programs can have.
      Lots of cells support Java apps. But this sexy beast [nokia.com] is full-fledged Symbian system that supports native code apps. I actually have the SDK (Nokia sends it to anybody who registers on their developer site), but you also need Visual C++. I don't currently have the SDK installed, so I can't talk about API specifics -- but I can tell you the API is huge. And the SDK includes an emulator to test your apps on.

      But here's the big news: Nokia wants an alternative to Visual C++. So they've contracted [infoworld.com] with my employer (Borland) to do a Symbian-targeted version of our existing C++ IDE [borland.com]. I'm totally biased, of course, but I happen to we have the best C++ development environment on the planet.

      Note that the Nokia phone I linked to doesn't work in the US, but a model that does will be available some time this year.

      • Well, the Nokia Communicator fulfills almost all of my wishes (except of the filtering maybe, but it might be solved too).

        BUT, it's too big.. way too big to carry in my pocket. It also may look awkward to walk in the street and talk into a thing like that. They should make a smaller model of this phone.

        Btw: My ex-boss had a similar phone (the older greyscale model), and while it was lovely, the sync program was bad and missed a lot of Outlook Express records.

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