Vertu Aster Yosegi Wood


Famous brand Vertu, which has recently been owned by a Hong Kong company Godin Holdings, has released an exclusive version of its smartphone Aster, presented last year. Vertu Aster Yosegi Wood became the embodiment of combining English and Japanese arts. In addition, it is the first device from Vertu with a body made not of leather or precious metals, and wood. But the tree is not common as in devices from Motorola, and the implementation of an ancient Japanese technique of carving Yosegi-zaiku, which appeared during the Edo and previously used to decorate household objects in thought upon the traditions of Japanese families.

Vertu Aster Yosegi Wood became the first unit of the company in the wooden case. Technique Yosegi-zaiku is stained planks of lime in different colors and thorough varnishing in several layers. A large number of these bars are combined into a large wooden blocks called geometric mosaic, which are then cut into the thinnest of sheets and are used for decor items. The surface of these sheets manually varnish to six times, and then ground and polished to achieve a protective glossy surface. Often, this technique is used for decoration of furniture, boxes and other household items.


On the technical side Vertu Aster Yosegi Wood is no different from the original Aster. The device is a 4.7-inch display with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels, quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor with a clock frequency of 2.3 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 64 GB of internal memory, 13-megapixel main and a 2-megapixel front camera, and battery capacity of 2275 mAh. It works machine running an operating system Android 5.1 Lollipop.

Vertu will release only 50 copies of the smartphone. All of them will be shipped with covers from calf leather in black or beige suede lining inside.