Vertu Agent Q is official but quite hard to buy

As expected, Vertu has made the Agent Q smartphone official today at Harrods in London. The phone comes with 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” higher-bin version), 16GB of RAM, 512GB/1TB of storage, and a 5,565 mAh battery with 65W wired charging support.

There’s a 50 MP main camera with OIS, which has a 35mm focal length and uses Sony’s IMX906 sensor with variable f/1.59-4.0 aperture, a 50 MP ultrawide using OmniVision’s 1/2.88″ OV50D sensor with 2.5cm Super Macro capability and 122-degree field of view, and a 64 MP telephoto camera with 2x optical zoom and OIS, using OmniVision’s OV64B sensor. For selfies you get a 32 MP 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 buy one. The Ruby Key is reborn as Ruby Talk, with a single press engaging “the AIGS network, a distributed network of over 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 So basically Vertu’s human concierge service has been replaced by AI “agents”, but thankfully you can revert to a human concierge 24/7 when the AI fails you.

The Agent Q is “sheathed in immaculate crocodile leather, adorned with a falcon-wing SIM chamber, and perfected through a Swiss hinge, 320 hand-assembled components, U-shaped seamless forming, thick gold plating, and a ceramic pillow”, whatever any of that means. In case you were wondering, “this is not design”, “this is ceremony”.

Pricing hasn’t been announced. You can only buy an Agent Q from Harrods in London, which represents “a return to Vertu’s spiritual home – the pinnacle of luxury, now paired with groundbreaking innovation”.