Vertu Signature Touch with flagship specs incoming

Vertu has already ventured into the luxury Android business with the Constellation - an exquisite phone on the outside with mid-range specs on the inside. The ever-vigilant AnTuTu team has spotted what could be a far more interesting flagship Vertu smartphone, though, called the Signature Touch (RM-980V).

The Signature line is fairly old (the original came out in 2003) and featured an iconic chevron design with a wide choice of premium materials. The Vertu Signature Touch is clearly ready to abandon its keypad roots and move to a high quality touchscreen.

The AnTuTu benchmark registered a 1080p screen but unfortunately there's no reading on screen size. The Vertu Signature Touch also boasts a 13MP main camera and a 2MP front-facer, plus 16GB of storage.

The phone ran a current Android 4.4.2 on a powerful Snapdragon 800 chipset with 2GB RAM. Not quite on par with mainstream flagships but still large leap from the Snapdragon S4 Pro with dual-core processor that powers the Constellation.

It even got a very good score, placing it a bit lower than a Sony Xperia Z2 but well above a Nexus 5.

AnTuTu 4

Higher is better

• HTC One (M8)
  
  37009


• Galaxy S5 (Snapdragon 801)
  
  36018


• Sony Xperia Z2
  
  33182


• Vertu Signature Touch
  
  31509


• LG Nexus 5
  
  25097

What AnTuTu wasn’t designed to measure is the raison d'etre of the Vertu Signature Touch – the exclusivity of the materials and the craftsmanship of the hand-built chassis. Guess we'll have to wait for the star-studded official announcement to find that out.

Source (in Chinese) | Via

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