I have a good friend who had one of the stainless steel versions of the first vertu (forget the name). I poked about with it and it struck me as something that one would only purchase should they want a certain subset of society who would know what the vertu was to see them. It was big, heavy and functionless. For these reasons, the friend ditched it not long after and got something with all the features and functions. I believe it gave him back rubs and vacuumed his floor at night.