The Vertu Ti is an Android mobile phone made by

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. It features a

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case with a

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screen making it more

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than most

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s. The phone retailed at £6700 (

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7900, $10500). It shares similar hardware and the same battery pack as

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, and is also manufactured by Nokia, which formerly owned

. Made of grade 5 Titanium, polished ceramic and partially covered with leather, the Vertu Ti was announced and released in February 2013. The phone sports a 1.7 GHz dual-core CPU and 1 gigabyte of RAM, 64 gigabytes of built-in storage which can be increased by up to 32 gigabytes with a removable MicroSD memory card. The display is a TFT capacitive, multitouch, scratch-resistant, sapphire crystal glass touchscreen with 16,000,000 colors, 480 x 800 pixels in resolution, and 3.7 inches in physical size thereby giving out 252 pixels per inch (PPI). The phone is equipped with an 8-megapixel camera which captures up to 3264x2448 pixel pictures, and is featured with autofocus, geo-tagging and an LED flash. The

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has a resolution of 1.3 megapixels.

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