Vertu does it again, crafts second Ferrari phone for $25K

See, here's the thing about Vertu phones: anyone who's wealthy enough to afford one probably wants (and can afford) more than one, probably doesn't care about newfangled goodies like 3G or a large, high resolution display, and probably keeps a Ferrari or two in the garage. On that note we give you the "Ascent Ferrari 60," the Nokia division's second Ferrari-themed handset. Unlike the first -- which happened to also be an Ascent -- the Ferrari 60 features a shift gate on its posterior instead of a brake pedal, which clearly makes it worth the €18,000 (about $25,370) asking price. Of course, that hefty cost of admission also nets you an elaborately fashioned storage box, a Vertu Aerius headset, and an actual valve out of a Ferrari F1 car, so the 60 lucky sons of guns that grab this thing are in for a treat (if valves and outdated Bluetooth headsets are your thing). Check it out at Nokia's London, Paris, Singapore, and Hong Kong locations.

[Via Autoblog, thanks Kane]

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[NaeemTHM @ Sep 27th 2007 1:34PM]

THE iPHONE IS STILL MORE EXPENSIVE!

[Preston @ Sep 27th 2007 1:42PM]

My only question is why?

[joe23521 @ Sep 27th 2007 2:08PM]

If your money is just rotting in the bank, why not?

[ja$on @ Sep 27th 2007 3:02PM]

Why?

To let everyone know that they have a very small penis.
They can't always be driving their Ferrari around.

[Z @ Sep 27th 2007 1:42PM]

I think the brake paddle design is better, since you would need to STOP your ferrari to take a call on your ferrari phone, unless you want to test your ferrari's getaway ability of course.

[mikekorpi @ Sep 27th 2007 1:45PM]

The only people that bother me more than the people who come up with this idea are the people who buy them.

When there is so much more good one can do with their money, why do people waste their time with this crap? It's just rich people handing their money to other rich people. A$$H0LE$.

[SyKoTiC @ Sep 27th 2007 1:55PM]

Took the words out of my mouth.

[F430SPIDER2 @ Dec 19th 2007 9:39AM]

HEY MIKEY,SISSY MARY CRY BABIES LIKE YOURSELF IS WHAT KEEPS THE EARTH ROTATING.SO DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND E1 ELSE TOO,WHEN YOUR JEALOUS ABOUT SOMETHING THAT YOU CANNOT AFFORD,KEEP YOUR PITY-PARTY COMMENTS TO YOURSELF.TRUST ME,PEOPLE WILL ACUALLY THINK YOU HAVE A HIGHER I.Q.THAT COULD BE ABOVE ROOM TEMPERATURE. FYI,BUT REALLY,ITS ONLY HALF THAT.IF YOU HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE TALKIN ABOUT ITS BEST LEFT ALONE.IT JUST SHOWS YOUR LACK OF MENTAL CAPABILITIES. RED HORSE 4-EVER!

[deniz @ Sep 27th 2007 1:57PM]

looks kinda lame for a 25k phone

[F. BOTI @ Sep 27th 2007 1:59PM]

ummmm...........nervermind.

[hp540 @ Sep 27th 2007 2:00PM]

There's a Vertu shop in Times Square, Hong Kong.
It's empty 99.999% of the time. I wonder how they pay the rent.

[chris @ Sep 27th 2007 2:04PM]

by the price of that thing, the 0.001% people who go there probably buy a couple of phones and thats enough sales for the year :P

[Joe @ Sep 27th 2007 2:06PM]

Sweet! More proof that life is all about perception and our hopes of others perceiving that we are unique and shallow, just like everyone else.

[Joe @ Sep 27th 2007 2:10PM]

Now if they only made a 1.5 mil Spider with a 4 cylinder, we'd be set.

[Juaquin @ Sep 27th 2007 2:29PM]

For that kind of money you had better get unlimited data and talk for the lifetime of the phone, especially considering the lack of any real features.

[BPM (FDF - Hypno-Toad) @ Sep 27th 2007 2:56PM]

Wow. That phone looks... horrible. I'm willing to bet that 90% of the pricetag is pure profit...

[h8rain @ Sep 27th 2007 3:12PM]

Considering the phone has nothing that is that expensive, I would venture a guess that the phone costs less than $500 to make. So it would be more like 95% profit :)

[ja$on @ Sep 27th 2007 3:15PM]

I'm gonna have to disagree with you on that. I'm willing to be that 99% of the price is pure profit.

[ja$on @ Sep 27th 2007 3:15PM]

I'm gonna have to disagree with you on that. I'm willing to bet that 99% of the price is pure profit.

[teej @ Sep 27th 2007 4:00PM]

Engineering costs plus Ferrari brand name costs make up a good portion of the price. They will sell a very limited # of phones, and they have to split these costs amongst this low number, thus, jacking up the price. Also, they're doing limited production runs (unlike other Nokia phones, see thousands), which drives up each unit's material cost.

[teej @ Sep 27th 2007 4:05PM]

BUT, in all honesty, it looks like a POS. i'd rather have a baller gold phone (http://www.intomobile.com/2007/08/23/lg-ke850-prada-phone-plated-in-24-karat-gold.html) for less.

[3rdsun @ Sep 27th 2007 3:27PM]

Only one sale would put us in the green

[Kurtis @ Sep 27th 2007 3:40PM]

no.

[Nathan Soliz @ Sep 27th 2007 3:55PM]

for 25k it should be inlaid with a diamond, platinum screws, engraved Ferrari items all over, and a far better stitching job than what I see there.

In reality it is worth $400.00

[Spencer Smith @ Sep 27th 2007 4:07PM]

How dumb...

[Harbinger @ Sep 27th 2007 4:25PM]

This post has it in reverse. I actually bought my Ferrari to go with my new Vertu phone.

[T.W.G @ Sep 27th 2007 5:15PM]

You guys should see a vertu ascent phone in real life: Very descent and stylish! A beautiful one with high quality manufacturing.

They showed on TV (here in Germany) how the boss of Vertu took his phone, layed it down on the street, drove over the phone with this Porsche and then took the phone back to resume his call.

Great!

[Zak @ Sep 27th 2007 5:59PM]

Just thinking of all the times I have driven over my phone........Hmmm

Nope can't think of one!

Seeing as my phone cost me 100 Dollars I can go out into the real world safe in the knowledge that if I drive over 250 of my phones them damn! I should have bought this phone in the first place.

[Johannes @ Sep 27th 2007 5:15PM]

Peasants. The whole lot of you. If you can't afford this, which of course you can't, fine. But what annoys me the most are ppl whose social envy drives them to commit to opinions, which, with a different account balance, the wouldn't endorse. Which makes them about as worthy of an opinion, or even a reply to their post for that matter, as any brainwashed monkey.

Some ppl can afford this, they want it exactly because other people cannot have it, and therefore buy exclusivity. What's wrong with that?

[Wonderboy @ Sep 28th 2007 4:27PM]

The fact that you are so pretentious to assume the lot of "peasants" you are referring to cannot afford this phone makes your post asinine. Not to mention, the fact you are assuming the opinions posted in this forum are directly affected by the amount of money [said peasant] has in their bank account at the time of post, makes this incoherent thought you fingerwhip onto this forum offensive and ignorant. Unless you are being sarcastic, in which case......funny post.

[zian5 @ Sep 28th 2007 11:52AM]

What's wrong is that they you're probably working your behind for them so they can lay you off when bonus is not big enough and spend yours to-be money on that phone :-)

[jamesc @ Sep 27th 2007 5:25PM]

People who buy this thing deserve to lose 25,000$ of their money.
But seriously what is this, some kind of ultimate-stupidity test?
How shallow do you have to be to buy this?!

[telepheedian @ Sep 27th 2007 6:21PM]

If you want an idea of how low end the internals are, go to Vertu's website, click on "for owners", then click on "use your Vertu".

Looks like Nokia needed to burn off some ancient chipsets, I'm frankly surprised that there is even bluetooth in the internals of that beast.

[Rowan @ Sep 27th 2007 6:26PM]

I want to become rich. And I'm pretty sure that I'll get there (someday).

However, if one of you guys ever sees me with a Vertu phone, please do me a favour and slap me hard across the face.

Has anybody given thought to what happens if you actually lose the phone?

And yes, with 1000 dollars, you can feed the whole of Ethopia for one year.
With 25 gran, I guess we could turn Addis Ababa into Tokyo :P

[emjoi @ Sep 27th 2007 6:49PM]

Even as a vanity, prestige object it fails.
You'll pull it out at a meeting, hoping to look impressive, and the other guys will be sending emails, browsing the web, videoconferencing etc... they'll have expensive phones that actually do things.

But at least yours has a nifty leather jacket.

[Keying @ Sep 27th 2007 7:03PM]

I would love to key this thing.

[Tuxy79 @ Sep 27th 2007 7:11PM]

Friggen Gorgeous, stupidly expensive, I'd take this over an iPhone.

[nick gonzalez @ Sep 27th 2007 8:54PM]

It's a Blackberry Perl wearing a leather jacket.

[parme @ Sep 28th 2007 8:24AM]

Looks like a tacky design from about 1985.

[Wonderboy @ Sep 28th 2007 4:26PM]

Anyone who would be willing to buy this phone for $25k with as little functionality it has, is a pawn plain and simple. This just proves that any highend manufacturer can sell anything with an outrageous, undeserved price tag and the sheep will flock. Makes you realize that the people with the means to do great things are just compliant fools.

Proves I can take a lump of shit, stamp Gucci on it, and laugh as the suckers bite and scratch to be the first to have it.