The world record for the fastest drone is set, an artificial heart is 3D printed and luxury phone maker Vertu shuts down. All this on Crunch Report.
It’s been a long, downward slide for cellphone maker Vertu. The company, founded by Nokia in 1998, was supposed to be a luxury phone provider to the stars and, to a degree, it delivered. They so
Exiled Turkish businessman Hakan Uzan could have picked up around 10,000 averaged-priced Vertu handsets for the amount he reportedly just paid for the company. Though it’s tough to say, really, whic
Vertu, the formerly-owned-by-Nokia maker of eye-wateringly expensive, leather-clad, gem-encrusted, handmade-in-the-U.K. 'luxury' smartphones, has launched its first Android-powered device: the Vertu T
Word has <a target="_blank" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/12/nokiaoyj-vertu-idUSWEA437720121012">come through</a> that Nokia has completed its sale of luxury phone brand Vertu to EQT VI
Here's a sad, and slightly ridiculous, coda to the story of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.vertu.com">Vertu</a>, Nokia's wrong turn into making bling-tastic handsets <a target="_blank" href="http
Nokia is reportedly in talks with a private equity group called EQT in an attempt to sell off its independent subsidiary, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.vertu.com/en/default.aspx">Vertu</a>.
<a HREF="http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/04/30/uk-nokia-sale-idUKBRE83T0CE20120430">Reuters</a> is reporting that <a HREF="https://techcrunch.com/tag/Nokia">Nokia</a> is exploring selling the Vertu
As <a href="http://crunchbase.com/company/nokia">Nokia</a> struggles to establish itself as a worthy competitor to Apple and the Android bulldozer in the smartphone segment, the company is looking to
<img src="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/vertu-japan.jpg" />
That was a long sayonara: in November 2008, <a href="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/tag/nokia/">Nokia</a> decided to <
Got $310,000 to spend on a phone like the Vertu Signature Cobra? No? Hm. How about $83,000, for the Vertu Signature Diamond. Still no? Well, crap. Oh! Okay, here: how about somewhere between $4,000 an
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/vertu_2-620x620.jpg" />
Nokia pulled out of Japan, one of the world's biggest mobile markets, <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/11
<img src="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/vertupink.jpg" /><a HREF="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/tag/vertu/">Vertu</a>, French for "virtue," has a pink phone <i>just in time</i>
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/vertu-v.jpg">You know the Vertu phones, right? The over-priced Nokias sold in watch stores and casinos? Well, soon there will be over-pri
<img src="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/nokia_japan.jpg" alt="nokia_japan" />
Japan is a tough market to crack for many non-Japanese cell phone makers, and even the world's l
<img src="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/vertu.jpg" />Apparently this phone is getting ready for a big Muay Thai match. It's a Vertu—“vertu” is “virture” in Frenc
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/vertu_store_tokyo.jpg" />
<a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/11/28/nokia-gives-up-japan-almost-will-possibly-focus-more-on-china-an
Ah, Russia. Home to a well-olied kleptocracy, Andrei Arshavin and, apparently, incredibly wealthy people who don’t know what to do with their money. (See: Roman Abramovich et al.) As such, we re
Nokia, the world’s leading mobile phone maker, announced it would stop selling and marketing its handsets in Japan because the market share remained flat over too many years (hovering at around 1% v
Japan has always been a tough market crack for Nokia, the world’s biggest cell phone manufacturer. While the Finnish company boasts a 40 percent share of global handset sales, this figure has be
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