What’s there really to know here? Small luxury phone manufacturer goes insane, slaps a pair of hugemongous diamonds, two emeralds and 439 rubies on to an absolutely garish cobra, glues it to a lame-ass phone and sells the setup for $310,000? Pretty much.
We can only take solace in the fact that only 8 of […]

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When you think about it, Vertus and Ferraris have a lot in common: just as Ferraris give a select few the opportunity to spend an insane amount of cash on an object that provides little more value than a, say, $1,000 used car, Vertu offers a product with little additional value (and in some cases, […]

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Frankly, we’re not sure who’s still buying the Vertu Ascent. Contrary to what Vertu might think, its handsets aren’t timeless — as technology plods ever forward, so must the world’s phones. Alas, the company is seeing fit to roll out yet another batch of special editions of its most “mainstream” (we use that term very […]

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