Thursday, March 14, 2013

Vertu - The phone that runs errands

Adam Jacques gives the luxury mobile-phone company's impressive new service a test run.

This impressive meet-and-greet isn't down to me – my VIP status is zilch – but rather it's thanks to the assistance of Vertu. The luxury mobile-phone company has a rather smart trick up its sleeve: access to a global concierge phone and messaging service, available 24/7, via a dedicated button on its latest mobile-phone offering, the Vertu Ti. And I've been given four days with its new Android-powered model in an attempt to make the most of its claim to be able to arrange anything (legal) within a reasonable time frame: from granting last-minute access to a network of private-members' clubs, to arranging a shopping trip