Premium cryptocurrency smartphone Metavertu, worth up to $41,000, unexpectedly became popular - Vertu received more than 80,000 paid pre-orders

The Vertu brand announced a smartphone for NFT and cryptocurrency two weeks ago. It was called Metavertu and suddenly

has become very popular, despite the cost.

What is known

More than 200,000 clients have issued a preliminaryorder on Metavertu. Moreover, 40% of them, i.e. over 80,000 people paid in full in advance. At the same time, the standard version is the most popular. It has a carbon fiber back and costs $3,600.

There is also high demand for the option withcrocodile skin worth $5500. But there is no information about the fate of the top version with diamonds, Himalayan alligator skin and gold. But it's unlikely to be popular given the $41,000 price tag.

Technically, Metavertu is a copynubia Z40 Pro. The smartphone is equipped with a Snapdragon 8 Gen1 chip, a 64-megapixel Sony IMX787 camera and a 4600 mAh battery. The top modification of the smartphone received 18 GB of RAM and a 1 TB drive.