Despite having a target market of moneyed assholes, of which the world is in ** short supply, the UK-based company apparently struggled to find a customer base for its $46,600 polished 18-carat red gold phones.
And what brought this visionary company down? According to the BBC, that would be an accounting deficit of £128 million (aka the cost of roughly 3,555 Clous de Paris Red Gold Vertu smartphones).* Read more...