If you were Nokia, right, and you’d announced that you were scrapping Symbian, what would be the most pointless way you could give the old OS a send off? You’d stick it in a Vertu phone and charge some oil baron eleventy billion quid for it! Simples! Yep, it’s time for me to do another mini-rant about luxury phones, but this time, brilliantly, I can combine with a rant about Nokia and Symbian.
You have to take joy in the small things in life, right? Anyway, what we have here, is a phone called the Vertu Constellation T, and according to IntoMobile, it’s the Nokia N8, with the camera from the Nokia E7, stuck inside a really stupidly ostentatious, , stupidly overpriced, over the top body. Yeah, great send off, really, innit?
I’ve never made any kind of secret of the fact I don’t like these kind of luxury phones. They’re never as good as other, vastly cheaper phones on the market, and they seem to exist solely for the purpose of the letting the owner say, “I own this room. I own you.”
Yeah, that annoys me. And bonus points if you spot where that quote comes from.
These phones, like the Vertu Constellation, are not meant for us, because we are beneath them. We are the plebs, the proles of society, basically worthless because we’re not Donald Trump or Alan Sugar (still not calling him Lord). We all know worth is defined only by wealth, so we may as well accept that we’re just not as good, not as worthwhile as people, as our capitalist overlords.
Annnnnnnnnnnnd, disengage heavy, angry sarcasm mode. Also, sorry, I went all socio-political there, didn’t I?
So yeah. Overpriced, and inferior to every other smartphone on the planet. Good send off for Symbian, Nokia, well done indeed!
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