Vertu gets into luxury leather
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BornRich)
All of this touch-screen talk sometimes makes us pine for simpler times, when products were made with more tactile aesthetics in mind. We're apparently not alone, as manufacturers such as Lenovo are making such items as notebooks clad in leather.
Now Vertu, the king of luxury phones, is bringing the cowhide concept to its latest handset, identified as the "Ascent T" in FCC filings. The proposed phone has a 3-megapixel camera, a scratch-proof LCD and UMTS mobile Internet access, according to BornRich, but it's the bovine component that's most easily noticeable. It's not the first time that Vertu has incorporated leather into its designs, but this one has a natural, almost retro look that's reminiscent of the old "Brownie" cameras made by Kodak in the 1930s.
Best of all? It has actual buttons. So there.

- Vertu ascent 1
- by sjidkov July 30, 2007 12:41 PM PDT
- The first Vertu ascent also featured leather well before the colourful special
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(3 Comments)editions were released. Also somehow I dont believe that this is infact the real
Vertu Ascent T2, somehow this one seems cheaper then what a vertu should be.