The luxury device has been priced in other markets only a few weeks ago

Feb 19, 2013 00:41 GMT  ·  By

Luxury phone brand VERTU is expected to bring its newly launched Android-based VERTU Ti to shelves in India next month, the latest reports on the matter suggest.

Featuring a 3.7-inch sapphire crystal screen that should be virtually scratch-proof, the handset also comes with a titanium case, and should easily prove around 5 times stronger than other smartphones out there.

On the inside, the device features a 1.7 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor and 1GB RAM, while also packing an 8-megapixel photo snapper on the back, and a front camera for making video calls. The handset runs under Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system.

The phone arrives on shelves in four flavors: Titanium Black Leather, at $9,600 (around €7,200), Titanium Pure Black, at $11,500 (around €8,600), Titanium Black Alligator, at $12,800 (around €9,600), and Black PVD Titanium Red Gold Mixed Metals, priced at $19,900 (around €14,900).