Keepin' it real fake, part CXXVIII: Vertu Ferrari ripoff devoid of Italian blood

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Mgates @ Aug 5th 2008 4:13PM

I've been waiting for someone to dupe one of these outrageously priced fashion phones... Think about how awesome this is for the pretenders out there... they can complete their uber look with this little gem when they pull up in their dealer loaner car ("my 599 GTB is in the shop...") and start yapping away on this thing. Unless you can see it up close and touch it, only geeks like us are going to know it's a bunk knockoff. And anyone else who cares that much deserves to be fooled!

I do understand the build quality thing. But phones are a bit different. Watches are timeless. A Rolex is actually worth the exuberant price because it will never go out of date (no pun intended). A phone however is dependent on the networks and technologies it employs, which are forever changing. In 30 years, that Rolex will still do everything it was designed to do just fine. In a scant 10 years the Vertu will be so obsolete it will be a finely handcrafted $5000 paperweight.

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