Vertu Constellation Ayxta gets unboxed and admired
By Vlad Savov 
posted April 6th 2010 12:21AM
posted April 6th 2010 12:21AM
posted April 6th 2010 12:21AM
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sure worth 7k
@ericlin
I am a Physician, not a millionaire, to spend on dumb phones like this, love my Nexus One
@ericlin
That is by far the Sexiest Vertu I have ever seen!
If I had $3247593286598324 to spend on a phone, I'd spend it on that baby right there.
@ericlin
I think that concierge service alone is worth that 7 G's.
@Beatnik
I paid 6K dollars for my Honda Accord 1999 model, Cant believe this is more expensive than my car.
@ericlin an income of 300 000 and above then you can justify buying this phone
Kinda reminds me of Jessica Simpson. She's pretty but not too smart.
@ericlin
Hope this helps to consolate the people who bought the iPad, imagine the 64GB + 3G (monthly payment) + Apps + eBooks, not that far.
@Beatnik
Well, your car is pretty crap. Be honest now.
@tytania8 When I was driving home from my local Mac retailer on Saturday afternoon with a $599 32 GB iPad I had a similar revelation. I drive a 92 escort bought for $500 cash.
@tytania8
I have an income of over 300,000 dollars and I couldn't justify buying that phone. Nice as it may be, it is just a dumbphone.
@RLBurkes
THATS MY SHIT!!!
@Gregorian
No, I love it
@tytania8
Just because someone makes a lot of money, does not mean that they can justify wasting it on something as ridiculous as a phone.
@Beatnik
'99 Accord coupe with the V6? That is a great car and much nicer than a diamond stu RAZR kirf
'99 Accord coupe with the V6?
Great car and much nicer than some KIRFed RAZR
@ericlin
World's Most Expensive Mouse HERE: $26,730
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2010/04/worlds_most_expensive_mouse_doesnt_look_classy.html
@good grief
My car is an Honda Accord 99, sedan, not V6, with leather seats, this is my first car, I bought it from my uncle wife 2 years ago, it is like new and I LOVE IT.
I don't see how even if you made more than $300K a year you could justify buying this thing where there are far more capable smartphones for 1/10th of the price. If you really just want concierge service there's other alternatives anyway that wouldn't require buying a phone you don't otherwise want.
Does it come with a limo driver?
@nullifie
$7500 sure would buy plenty of hookers and blow....
@formetopoopon
If someones getting this to feel unique as being the only person with one -you could always Pre.
$7500!!! I wish I had money to throw away.
@pur Even if I had the money, no matter how rich, I wouldn't buy it. It's like selling someone a comb and saying, "Ya I designed it and I'm some famous guy that does famous stuff, not pay 50,000% times the units cost. "
Maybe it I was a billionaire, I'd buy it just to break it in front on the company's CEO. Then buy out his company to just bulldoze the property to build a park in there my name. Maybe add a plaque that saying, "From n0ne, Destroyer of Bull Shit Gadgets."
Yea... I can see it now.......
@pur
you guys all miss the point of a vertu. these phones are sold to people who have thier butler dial the number for them, all the person does is hold it to their ear. its the FEEL of the phone they pay for, not what it does. example:
you go to your private dinner party your holding at the Ritz. your chauffeur has driven so you dont need GPS. your at a dinner party, why would you need WIFI? you need something that sits lightly in your tailored suits' jacket pocket, and that when you pull it out it matches everything you own. if your dressed in $100,000 you dont want to pull out a $500 dollar plastic phone housing a small computer, people would stare. you want something beautiful that complements everything else you wear.
@n0ne
It's not a gadget. That's the whole point.
Seems cheap. Make one out of diamond and put the price point at about 100,000 and only then will I consider this phone. Style over substance any day.
@scots79
I appreciate your sarcasm, but do understand that for a billionaire 7,500$ is that same for you as a 7.5$ usb.
Do these phones run Symbian (any version) or a different os
@Xoy
They aren't smartphones, they probably use nokia's feature phone OS.
@Goc Which is still Symbian and the reason I asked.
@Xoy It's S40. Which isn't Symbian. It's Nokia OS as found on Nokia's "Feature Phones" as @Goc mentioned. S60 is Symbian.
Is it just me, or is there a bit of Transformers vibe in this phone?
@Zaeed
exactly what i tought when i saw the phone
@Zaeed Which now explains the price tag..it's more than meets the eye.
i saw the picture on this post, read nothing, and thought to myself... why the hell would motorola re-hash the RAZR aFRIGGENgain!
and then after a quick scan... i thought... Vertu? How are they still around?
maybe tomorrow i'll get around to actually reading this article...
Needs more stickers and I'll pay the 7,500
Hope they won't give Steve Jobs any ideas or you'll end up with the "MacBook Bling" with a starting price of $15000.
@MikeZ
Magic Macbook, with a case carved out of a solid block of pixie dust
@yulebellow
Unibody FTW!
Has anyone noticed that it's a flip phone? Has anyone noticed that it's not 2002?
Yea, I have this same phone! It came out forever ago. It's called a RAZR. If anybody would like it, you can HAVE my old one.
Looks like a ugly RAZR v8, only that the moto has over 8 hours of talk time. And even old v3 can have preloaded gps maps. I dont get it... Why? and Why that much!? ehhh... guess they dont care cuz it will sell
@NeatOman
Can you imagine the amount of tears a person owning one of these would shed if you mistook it for a plebeian RAZR? *sniff* its not like I own one. I'm not gonna crAAAA-
2005 called... They want their Razr back
@crazy
Tell it to bring 7.5K and we've got business.
@derX Does it come in pink ?
Most likely it comes with: Web OS, Android, and iPhone OS. You get all that for 7k......lol
Terrible.
This thing is an absolute piece of sh~t.
Whoever approved the idea for this phone should be ashamed of themselves and fired.
Looks like a RAZR knockoff.