Vertu is a firm recognized for making terribly gaudy smartphones with outdated know-how, luxe supplies, and eye-watering costs. Now the model is right here to fulfill the AI second with its first-ever book-like folding cellphone, full with an AI agent on board.
The corporate introduced the AlphaFold smartphone on Thursday—concentrating on enterprise executives—which comes outfitted with the Hermes Agent. This agent can purportedly deal with schedules and duties on a person’s behalf and “connect with enterprise methods.” Brokers are massive within the smartphone world proper now, with firms like Google and Samsung providing methods for Gemini on Android smartphones to carry out duties similar to reserving an Uber or ordering DoorDash. Vertu is cashing in on that pattern.
However the firm has a checkered previous. Initially, Vertu was a Nokia subsidiary that made handcrafted luxurious Nokia telephones (within the UK!) within the early 2000s. Every cellphone got here with entry to a dwell concierge service. The corporate confronted headwinds with the smartphone revolution and fell behind the instances. Vertu then modified arms over a number of years, with varied acquisitions, finally shuttering its UK manufacturing unit and shedding workers.
Courtesy of Vertu
In the previous couple of years, the corporate has been churning out luxurious Android smartphones once more—it debuted a folding flip cellphone final 12 months that begins at $4,300 (with a calfskin backplate, naturally). In late 2025, it unveiled the Agent Q, which it calls the “world’s first AI agent cellphone for entrepreneurs.”
The AlphaFold has all of the markings of a high-end Android smartphone. It is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset from 2025 and is 11.8 millimeters thick when folded, 5.4 mm when unfolded. Not fairly as svelte because the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7, however not far off from opponents just like the Google Pixel 10 Professional Fold. Vertu says the hinge and display screen structure have been examined to resist 650,000 folds, which is greater than Samsung’s declare of 500,000 folds.
Inside is a 6,500-mAh silicon-anode battery, an up-and-coming battery know-how that is been making waves in Chinese language smartphones and has solely just lately made its approach into Western smartphones from the likes of Motorola. There’s 65-watt quick charging, a 120-Hz display screen refresh fee for the inside 8.05-inch display screen, and a 6.53-inch outer display screen. There is a triple-camera system with a 50-megapixel essential digicam, a 50-megapixel ultrawide, and a 5-megapixel telephoto.
