Vertu creates $10K luxury Android phone for the wealthy and depressed

February 12, 2013 6:29 AM Ricardo Bilton
Ricardo Bilton

For roughly $10,000, wealthy and self-aggrandizing egotists will get a luxury phone along with the latest version of Android. Happiness, however, is sold separately.

Nokia to dump world’s most ridiculous luxury-phone brand, Vertu, for $265M

April 29, 2012 6:50 PM Heather Kelly
Heather Kelly

Troubled phone-maker Nokia is attempting to unload its luxury mobile-phone brand, Vertu, for a reported $265 million (€200 million), the Financial Times is reporting. Nokia is being advised by Goldman Sachs on the deal and is currently in talks to …