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If you think Samsung is $2000 Galaxy Z Fold 7 A cheap, ugly phone that’s only fit for use by peasants with only four or five bedrooms in their house, so luxury phone maker Vertu has you covered. The Alphafold, as the company’s latest device is called, uses materials like calfskin, alligator skin, 24-karat gold, and, of course, Actual diamonds In its construction – and on it It starts Priced at only $6880.
Still too cheap and bad for you? That’s okay, Vertu offers a full customization service at “virtually uncapped” prices. Some of the company’s projects for the ultra-rich had six-figure price tags attached to them. Sure enough, he puts in $800 Motorola Razr For shame.
Crocodile skin and real gold? No problem here!
So what do you get for all that money? Well, a lot of it has to do with what wild textures you want Vertu to use on your phone. Each unit is mostly custom made and handcrafted to the specifications you order.
The Alphafold is a book-shaped foldable device, with an 8-inch “wrinkle-free” internal display, a 6,500 mAh silicon-carbon battery and a rear camera setup consisting of a 50-megapixel main camera, a 5-megapixel telephoto camera and a 50-megapixel ultra-wide camera. Vertu also says that the device runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. It’s not clear at the time of writing what exactly the model is, but either way, it’s a step behind Qualcomm’s current flagship. 8 Elite Gen 5.
Disappointed that the specs are kinda…meh? Yes, me too, but perhaps Vertu rightly assumes that its wealthy customers will be too busy managing their vast empires to want to spend a lot of time taking artistic photos of whatever landscapes they drive through or achieving the best frame rates when playing Genshin Impact.
The camera specs may not be the best out there, but they’re probably more than enough for any aircraft industry executive.
And to help these underappreciated CEOs achieve their decidedly well-intentioned goals, Alphafold is packed with Amnesty International agent tools. Vertu claims that these tools will not only do things like analyze your company’s data, but they can also make strategic recommendations.
Unsurprisingly, Vertu is keen to make clear that AI will not operate entirely on its own, stating that it “must act as a trusted implementation partner for decision makers, not as an untethered, autonomous system.” So, you don’t have to worry about your phone deciding to sell your company when its stock hits an all-time high or choosing to vote you off the executive board because you trust your phone to make the decision.
There are a ton of other business-focused things and AI tricks out there, but as someone whose income is somewhat below the threshold of any Vertu customer, my interest started to wane once I was done looking at pictures of the fancy device – just like I used to read in school.
The large internal screen is the best place to see your company’s spreadsheets or whatever business people are doing.
However, I’m really keen to see this thing in action and would jump at the chance to see what it’s like to use such an elite phone in real life. Then I guess I’ll have to come back to earth with a bump when I have to go back to my disgustingly cheap price iPhone 17 Pro As if I were in a Dickensian slum. total.
