With so many smartphones that reach our hands and the hundreds that can pass through the windows of certain commercial establishments, the only way to stand out is to offer something different, and even more so if you are not one of those Samsung, Sony, LG, Xiaomi and other cast. that we all already know. If we have seen the special editions of certain smartphones, such as Apple's own, and those luxury smartwatches from Swiss brands such as Tag Heuer Connected, surely more and more we see new bets that they try to take us through other spaces and sensations where the exclusivity of the design is what really catches the attention of the passerby and where the hardware can take a back seat.
This is what happens with Vertu Aster Yosegi, a smartphone in itself special and that it has a great wood finish that allows it to offer a noteworthy visual appearance. Vertu is one of those brands that looks more for physical appearance than the interior in a smartphone, and this time it shows again that it knows a lot about exterior beauty. Aster Yosegi is your new smartphone in which, instead of metals and gems, its wood stands out. This great design is because it takes advantage of a Japanese art called Yosegi-zaiku.
A special smartphone with a different design
Yosegi is a kind of traditional japanese art that you have surely been able to see in those wooden boxes that have a special ornamentation with all kinds of grain and wood textures that make each one of them special and unique.
It is this special and unique that Vertu has wanted to bring to this smartphone called Aster Yosegi and that brings us a special design that surely do not leave anyone indifferent when he sees it pass before him, since from the video, we can already discover what something that we are not so used to is like, due to how normal it is to find glass, plastic and metal in the rest of the smartphones that usually swarm through these pages.
Those strips of wood of different colors and laminates will shape the presence of your smartphone in a very particular way. This does not mean that we forget its technical characteristics, but we make it clear that with this mobile one does not look for the best CPU or the best camera, but it is a smartphone to teach and to be seen.
Limited units
Being almost a handicraft workSince it implies that there are six layers of lacquer that are applied by hand on the devices, Vertu plans to manufacture 50 units with the pattern that we can see in these lines. The pattern has been designed by the Japanese artist named Hiroko Imada.
On the hardware side, and the one that tends to interest us most in these parts, the smartphone has a 13 MP Hasselbald camera with a sapphire crystal lens and anti-reflective coating. The screen is 4,7 inches and is covered again in that 5,1-inch anti-reflective coated sapphire crystal. The device works under Android 5.1 and offers the possibility of accessing all Verty services to its owner.
With all that said, we are facing a unique terminal in its visual presence and not looks for more than luxury in its materials and certain details that can differentiate it, such as that of the camera. That it is on Android 5.1 is appreciated, since sometimes we see that these types of devices are not up to par with Android updates, something vital for the user so that they can be taken seriously.
To add the finishing touch, the Aster Yosegi Wood comes with a leather sheath so that it is the perfect companion and thus protects this phone that will surely attract the attention of friends and family when at some point we have it in our hand.