As expected, Vertu today made the Agent Q smartphone official at Harrods in London. The phone features a 6.02″ AMOLED screen with 1080×2340 resolution and 120Hz refresh rate, the Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC at the helm (and it’s the “Supreme” top-bin version), 16GB of RAM, 512GB/1TB of storage, and a 5,565mAh battery with 65W wired charging support.
There’s a 50MP main camera with OIS, which has a focal length of 35mm and uses Sony’s IMX906 sensor with variable aperture f/1.59-4.0, a 50MP ultrawide that uses OmniVision’s 1/2.88″ OV50D sensor with 2.5cm Super Macro capability and 122-degree field of view, and a 64MP telephoto camera with 2x optical zoom and OIS, using OmniVision’s OV64B sensor. For selfies you get a 32MP snapper.
The Agent Q boasts dual stereo speakers with DTS Ultra, a dedicated hardware encryption chip, and you get 10TB of cloud storage when you purchase one. The Ruby Key is reborn as Ruby Talk, with a single push involving “the AIGS network, a distributed network of more than 200 specialized agents ready to execute commands,” according to the official press release. So basically, Vertu’s human concierge service has been replaced by AI “agents”, but luckily you can revert to a human concierge 24/7 when the AI lets you down.
Agent Q is “clad in pristine crocodile leather, adorned with a falcon-wing SIM chamber and perfected through a Swiss hinge, 320 hand-assembled components, seamless U-shaped forming, thick gold plating, and a ceramic cushion,” whatever that means. In case you were wondering, “this is not design,” “this is ceremony.”
The price was not announced. You can only buy an Agent Q at Harrods in London, which represents “a return to Vertu’s spiritual home: the pinnacle of luxury, now paired with revolutionary innovation.”
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