A few months ago, iconic British phone manufacturer Vertu announced that it would enter liquidation after encountering financial difficulties. But now, with the company’s assets on the auction block, you can pick up a Vertu phone for a (relative) bargain. One of its Signature brand feature phones, which comes encased in 18 karat gold and black alligator leather and originally retailed for £14,700 ($19,000), currently has bids in the $1,500 range. https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017...rtus-assets-are-now-on-auction/#.tnw_MARscHxY
Soon everyone will have a 4 figure phone. It's called the iPhone8. Edit- is there any doubt MS is bidding for an "on the cheap" Vertu phone? I would bet my left nut he's trying to get one. Fake it till you make it LOL
He was trying to sell one a few years back, no idea if he had any takers: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/own-marketsurfers-personal-phone.277525/page-1
The phones went for big prices, even at liquidation, in some cases >£10,000. The wannabees can't afford them even now! I guess he was right all along...
Their pricing was too extreme for the material add-ons they were providing. They tried to turn a $99 phone with an Android OS into a $19k piece of jewelry (with no added functionality), which worked ok at first until they realized that millennials and most other people don't give a flying flip about goofy materials like Alligator skin any more.
Vertu may be dead, but it was a remarkable company The maker of deluxe handsets for the super-rich was an innovator
It might have been a remarkable hardware company, but the software was always outdated or second rate.