From CNET: If you thought Samsung's $2,000 Galaxy Z Fold 7 is cheap, ugly and only fit for use by peasants with only four or five bedrooms in their house, then luxury-phone maker Vertu has the foldable phone for you. The Alphafold, as the company's newest device is called, uses materials like calf skin, alligator skin, 24 karat gold and, sure, actual diamonds in its construction -- and it starts at a mere $6,880.
Still too cheap and nasty for you? That's fine, Vertu offers a complete customization service with pricing being "effectively uncapped." Some of the company's bespoke projects for the ultrarich have had six figure price tags attached. It sure puts the $800 Motorola Razr to shame.
So what do you get for all that money? Well, much of it goes on whatever wild materials you want Vertu to use on your phone. Each unit is made mostly to order and built by hand according to the specifications you've requested.
The Alphafold is a book-style foldable, with an 8-inch "crease free" inner display, a 6,500-mAh silicon-carbon battery and a rear camera setup consisting of a 50-megapixel main camera, 5-megapixel telephoto and 50-megapixel ultrawide. Vertu also says the device runs on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. It's not clear at the time of writing exactly which model this is, but either way, it's a step behind Qualcomm's current flagship 8 Elite Gen 5.
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