The Vertu Ti is an
Android mobile phone made by
Vertu
Vertu (stylised VERTU) is a manufacturer and retailer of luxury handmade mobile phones, established in 1998 and formerly owned by Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia. Previously located in the UK, ownership of the brand is now contes ...
in
England
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. It features a
titanium
Titanium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ti and atomic number 22. Found in nature only as an oxide, it can be reduced to produce a lustrous transition metal with a silver color, low density, and high strength, resistant to corrosion in ...
case with a
sapphire
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screen making it more
robust
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than most
smartphone
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s. The phone retailed at
£6700 (
€
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7900,
$10500).
It shares similar hardware and the same battery pack as
Nokia
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications industry, telecommunications, technology company, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1 ...
's
Lumia 920
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, and is also manufactured by Nokia, which formerly owned
Vertu
Vertu (stylised VERTU) is a manufacturer and retailer of luxury handmade mobile phones, established in 1998 and formerly owned by Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia. Previously located in the UK, ownership of the brand is now contes ...
.
Made of grade 5 Titanium, polished ceramic and partially covered with leather, the Vertu Ti was announced and released in February 2013. The phone sports a 1.7 GHz dual-core CPU and 1 gigabyte of RAM, 64 gigabytes of built-in storage which can be increased by up to 32 gigabytes with a removable MicroSD memory card. The display is a TFT capacitive, multitouch, scratch-resistant, sapphire crystal glass touchscreen with 16,000,000 colors, 480 x 800 pixels in resolution, and 3.7 inches in physical size thereby giving out 252 pixels per inch (PPI).
The phone is equipped with an 8-megapixel camera which captures up to 3264x2448 pixel pictures, and is featured with autofocus, geo-tagging and an LED flash. The
front-facing camera
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has a resolution of 1.3 megapixels.
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Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2013
Discontinued flagship smartphones