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I used to like the Vertu mobiles because of ites uniqnes “Not anymore”, its design and the luxury of combination of titanium and fine leather.

I’ve been using Vertu mobile phones for about five to six years now and used many different types, from the ascent to constellation to signature, but as they always say beauty hurts and I’ll tell you why in a second.

The mobile looks great, of course because it cost more than 40 000 Dirhams or 15 000$. There are cheaper models, not this! but does it worth this amount? hmm lets see

I have to be honest, the metal never scratched, screen looks great as always, I bought this model for two years I guess and it still shine, But . . .

The leather will look like this after a short period, depends how you take care of it, my mobile is older than my brother’s Vertu, but lets look at his

The trick is never place the Vertu on its back when you are in a restaurant or home or anywhere ! When you place it on its face, don’t worry about the screen, it will never get scratched and the leather will live longer.

You always can change the leather, but it will cost you some thousands.

When you need to remove the battery cover, you’ll need a special key that comes in a box, using key to open a battery cover is a nice touch by Vertu, but its annoying .. actually I lost all my keys lol, I use a coin or my nail sometime, but be careful, long nail can be broken easily !!

Major problem with Vertu is the battery. It is the worst I ever saw and used, it can be done with couple of hours or 30-60 mins talking and sometime less. When the battery is new, it last longer, but after couple of months, forget it. I’ve been using several vertu’s in the past 5-6 years and the problem still exist with them all. look at the battery how thin, and you’ll understand why.

I’m not sure if this problem is a major or not, but it happens with my current phone, on the picture, I actually removed the sim, but sometime I get this message even when sim is in. Annoying ..

Finally, there are millions of fake vertu’s allover the world now, and they look exactly like the original, but I still can tell the different .

• every vertu has a serial number, or if its limited it’ll have a number for example 699/1000 as mine says. the fake ones always will be 1/1000.
• the leather will feel cheap and somehow like nylon and not leather
• the menu somehow is different
• on the second picture there is a button on the left side of the phone to call the concierge service, on the fake ones it won’t work.

That’s what in my mind for now I guess there are much more, but I never cared about the fake ones only to catch my friends when they use one haha.

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