Vertu V makes no concessions: $730 BT headset, $490 card reader, and $330 ballpoint pen
By Ross Miller 
posted December 11th 2009 1:53AM
posted December 11th 2009 1:53AM
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These had better be made out of platinum for that price.
Vertu should change its name to Monster.
@mianmian
Then they'd get sued
just obnoxious.
Fuck NO!
Why not just buy the 'average' versions of said products and use the remaining money to throw at people? It has the same effect.
@JohnPheng You'd make more friends, too.
@JohnPheng Goldplating yourself might do the trick.
DO NOT WANT
If that bluetooth headset doesn't beam me to the person i'm calling in some way then i'm not buying!
Ah, I ought to run to the Nokia Store and pick one up ..... oh, wait
you have to admit, the BT headset is pretty darn sexy.
@xKNGx I was just logging in to post the same thing. Looks like a fine articulated mechanism.
@xKNGx
device looks pretty cool
Pretty sexy? For that price i could get a BT headset for each ear of each person in my family and afford to pay some sexy women to dance for me wherever i want. And that would be a fair bit sexier than that headset
@justind
Very true, but you can't take the sexy women home....
@ah2049
Says who?
@justind
people how purchase Vertu already have naked modelS waiting for them at home. and Vertu BT + latest cell phone + accessories for them is like buying a gum for you.
I can only make a comparative analysis of this company and all its products to that of shit on a stick fried and battered.
To all the Suckaz who purchase this fried shite ENJOY !!!
In this thread: poor people.
Articles regarding expensive products which point out that they're expensive, whether the price is warranted for the functionality or not, are so tired; their comments moreso. They're expensive. We get it.
In the case of say, the $22,000+ Hasselblad D3 digital SLR, it's expensive because it delivers quality and performance that most can't comprehend looking at specs alone and at a level that even most pros will never need. There's also the quality of design and the inverted economies of scale which make it automatically more expensive than a Canon or Nikon. In the case of something like this, build quality and components, possibly a more exclusive designer/team, and sure, a good dose of "because we can and it'll up the perceived value of it".
The headset is cool until somebody tries ripping it off your ear.
I can understand why someone would want high-dollar items like Ferrari cars and Rolex watches because when people see these items they understand that they are expensive.
As far as Vertu goes, if I showed the average non-tech-savvy person any number of there items they would never guess that it had as high of a price tag as what Vertu places on these.
I know the Vertu phone comes with more than just the phone, but most people don't and wouldn't understand the 4 figure price tag.
Its a nice looking BT, but i'm probably getting the same call quality with my Plantronics Voyager Pro as this Vertu, and i'm not questioned for spending $99 on it.
Waiting for a YouTube video that shows me how to wear these... :-)