I guess there aren’t many people in the world who haven’t heard about Vertu. It’s the subsidiary brand of Nokia that manufactures luxury phones made using materials like gold, sapphire, rubies and fine leather. Almost everyone wants to have a Vertu phone, even though all these luxury devices run Symbian and can’t boast any high-end features. Maybe everyone wants and loves Vertu devices because of their price — the cheapest Vertu phone costs about $5,770, and we people love luxury things :)

Anyway, there are rumors that at least one of the features of Vertu phones will be improved – the new models will run Windows Phone instead of Symbian OS.

According to @UVStaska’s tweet, it seems like Vertu will really start using Microsoft’s WP OS, since Nokia won’t continue working with Symbian for a long time, and most likely its new cooperation with Microsoft will spread over Vertu, too.

I can’t imagine a WP-based Vertu yet, since their phones have never had touchscreen displays… But anyway, I think using WP in Vertu devices is a good idea. At least people who pay thousands of dollars for a luxury phone can look to a decent operating system instead of Symbian…

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