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- Published on Mar 4, 2026
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MKBHD Let me borrow his $5000 dollar smartphone
They said there was "REAL GOLD" inside this Luxury Smartphone...
Welp. I don't know what I expected 😅
Goat
Yeap thats dead brother
Frame it 😂
Yee 3rd reply
We all come here for the same thing @mkbhd , you know exactly what to expect
This is like a huge professional scam.
Hmmm... I have the faintest belief that if anyone has enough dough to drop on a phone like nothing and they got scammed, money -or scamming people - is not too much of a worry to them. The "Do not redeem" meme comes to mind... at least for the management of such a call center.
Those who complain about this clearly don't remember the iAmRich app
nokia vertu has existed since the 2000s and has never been worth it
Much like luxury items are in general
Rich people want to feel special, they want to have what others can’t, that’s pretty much the selling point.
2:36 "Exploiting younglings is something billionaires just can't get enough of"🤣🤣
Release the-
Oh wait they did
@SalzmanSoftware still mostly redacted and not fully, still like 20% left to be released
@SalzmanSoftwarewow now are we supposed to worship them and thank them for releasing it ? this is our rights they didn’t do any favours . what’s even your point
The way my jaw dropped when i heard that hahahhahahha
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5000 is a superb price for a phone that can do advanced mental diagnostics. If you buy it, you're immediately diagnosed as not bright.
😂😂😂😂
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Best comment of 2026
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10:06 😂 busted
REDMAGIC for the common W.
Hi redii !!! give me a 11 pro pls 😢
nice
Yooooo never thought goat is also watching this
Hahahaha nice 1. Been using red magic ever since... Pretty solid gaming phone.
Jerry RIP's Everything
rest in pieces 🤣
Haha
Lol😅😂
Wt about the Chinese phones? I would like to see him doing it for the vivo x300 pro
😂😂😂😂
nice to see Zack supporting small creators
Are you kidding me, MKBHD is at the top of the food chain
@Wackyzany2that's the joke
@Wackyzany2If He was he wouldn't release a paid wallpaper App 😂😂😂😂
@Wackyzany2true man he is on top ... jerry and mkbhd are 2 on top
People don’t know what a joke is I guess.🙄
"Marcus you wont believe what just happend"
wait what ? what happened ?
@simplymarcuss No not you Marcus, Marcus
Marques*
2:40 the Epstein jokes😂😂😂
Jerry saying "you cant lose what you never had" before valentine is crazy
Zack: do you want it back?
MKBHD: YES
Zack: in how many pieces??
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Stuff like this should automatically create a lawsuit since it's clearly a scam.
I mean I'd say it goes far enough into false advertisement
The US will never have proper consumer protection laws 😢
If you are dumb enough to believe it, you should be out the money.
Rich people will pay this amount just to say that they did I think it's vapid
Like out of thin air?
2:36 "Exploiting younglings is something billionaires just can't get enough of"
LOL
EPIC🤣
I was like damnnnnn!!!
Mr Beast be like: 😬
bot points out the obvious to garner likes
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0:30 the voice went 8d
Getting scammed in a professional way.
I bet Jerry was itching to begin destruction of this borrowed phone!
Zack 😉
Don't forget the company
hey don't use the D word, it's called deep component analysis for educational purposes*
2:57 yeah, he won’t notice… probably
A little tape and wally!
.....Then proceeds to scratch the sides
I shouldn't have found that piece falling off like that really funny, but here we are
Not a great time stamp took me 6 attempts to find you were talking about 2:56
Dude that VPN connected to Greenland was nice move 😂
It's actually quite impressive that they have a node there.
Zooms in on Africa
@klaxxon__ Some poor Raspberry Pi is getting supercooled in ice to handle the load of the two people connected there every day
And what he was searching while connected.
He's not in America... yet.
For a 5k smartphone having the basic android icons is Wild
And the fact that it's a rebranded ZTE phone says it all!
I like that they managed to have a scam within a scam. Like even with the gold plating pictured, it would be a scam, but they don't even include what they advertise, so you get double scammed.
With $5000 you can buy a phone, gaming laptop, a still left with 3500
you can buy an actual gaming pc
@dacianatrif490a rlly good one
Without RAM memory :))
@RotaruCosminLeonard thats what the 3500 is for
Only if you only need 4gb of DDR3 RAM.
0:50 the voices inside my head lol 😂
Scratches at level 6 with deeper grooves at level 7
Zack invented 6 7 meme before it became cool
The ads for this on tiktok would be hilarious if they weren't trying to scam people with them
it looks like an old phone design
Bro at his villain arc
Zack dude your subtle commentary absolutely kills me I always about spite out a drink or choke
Maybe he is trying to kill you
8:54 it says ZTE on the battery 😅
Nice catch… 20 buck replacement battery for a 5k phone 😂
@MooDengFan02the whole phone internals are ZTE
@fhwolthuisDIY phone…
Mrwhosetheboss also looked into this phone and found that apparently vertu seems to have ZTE as the manufacturer for some parts or maybe even the entire phone.
BBK wouldn't do this
Markus: "Keep it!"
Luckily you’ve made this vid, so I can skip the purchase on this phone! 😂
Now you can give it back to him.
In pieces. 😁
Just as expected. Just a regular phone. 😂
"Borrow" should in quotation marks
1:31 Maybe I need to clean my screen. I don’t see the scratches. Does anyone else?
Same lol
Same
Same😂
I do
Hard to see but you can if you slow the video down and zoom in a little
Ok, the Greenland joke had me laughing so hard.
ive seen greed before but this takes the cake this entire exercise in pure unfiltered greed and vanity
3:05 "so you look like a psychopath charging your phone"
😂😂😂
"Marcus it fell out my pockets"
9:20 Gold isnt super conductive. It is actually less conductive than other commonly used metals and alloys. The only reason why it is found on connectors is the corrosion resistance.
It’s the third most conductive metal, so still very conductive. You’re right that it’s chosen for corrosion resistance though.
Ah yes, the "ultra premium" chinese iSlop phone.
British company btw
@lebogangmogano3276just like Nothing with their rebranded BBK slop
I can feel the Rich laughing behind the screen 🤣 0:19
1:16 MKBHD be like: Hello Chase bank... Here to report a fraudulent transaction....
He would use proper English.
@Kato-2026 👍
love how it takes itself apart by just looking at it
@02:32
"But exploiting younglings is something billionairs just can't get enough of"
The Greenland joke was hilarious Zack!
I was almost 100% sure the phone was not worth it
someone should take legal action on them for full of fake advertisement
0:45 the amount of skill added in this video with sterio and mono sound for the convo part
That is some insane markup...
"Maybe Marques won't notice"
imagine having a 1 in 8 billion chance of failure and still failing 😭
are u lucky or unlucky
4:32 let’s be honest here, you didn’t wanna break it in half
Nice Phone Call
Anyone else watch one JRE video when researching for a new phone but then just stayed for the teardowns?
When Jerry borrows someting you know what is going to happen😶
Vive La France. With there love of falling metal blades.
Phone with anti scam ,and it turns out the phone itself is a scam
hahaaha GOLD SCAM, even RedMagic got real gold inside compare expensive ones that $5k 🥇 😂 LOLL
Been subscribed to this channel for almost 8 years and this is the first video I was able to watch to the end, my heart just couldn't handle the other phones being torn apart 😂
Great work! 🙌
7:55 I think you meant 1 in 8 billion chance of SOMEONE finding out.
Ha. Had to chuckle. Great little teardown.
"A fool and his money are easily parted."
Vertu has always been a 100% scam product…
If Tesla had a cellphone it would be exactly like this one
Tesla phone, the ringtone would be children crying on the island
If Americans could spend 10 minutes a day not pushing it their political issues into every fricking thing that exist in the UK this world ?
@Matt-bp5vy what?
@Matt-bp5vy since when is tesla a political party?
@bananabread2137since trump's america /s
This is the first time where i don't feel bad about zack ruining an expensive phone like this cause for $5000, this is terrible.
This is the perfect phone to be a hit in UAE.
@SmOgER10 no, they pay 5k for a real 24k gold iPhone
That start up song screams Temu phone.
5:24 that's a good one 😂
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In search of gold, JRE found metal, plastic and leather. 😂
sounds like a minecraft adventure.
You forgot ruby
The voice over moving from ear to ear when you were making a conversation with yourself is a good touch👍
3:09 😂 😂 😂... so you can look like a psychopath while charging your phone
It unclips like a little lego
I mean why even add 6:55 lab grown rubby 😅😅
Special effect😅
“You can’t lose what you never had”
Damn, I felt that one
Deep
That startup chime sounds so cheap, I wouldn't expect the rest of the phone to be more premium than that.
dude, the bot stole your comment
@ios6userWhat?
Where is s26 ultra durability test??
first half of the video all i was thinking was that those things were on your desk or on my screen
Bro just killed that company 😂😢😅😂
As he should have......... 😊
Certainly not Marque's first time, he just wanted to share the fun with Jerry! 😂😂😂
5:15 "speaking of multiple layers of protection, you might have thought that i was at home making this video, which indeed i am, but the government thinks i am currently in Greenland which might explain somethings." 😂😂😂
Did you want it back? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
that's true friendship right there.
It only took a few minutes for me to realize I would never let you borrow anything.
Vertu is still exist???
oh- a long time go, aight
Made by zte now..
Same question
Their current social media account has some very cringe content.
@Jr.tnx-x2woh
0:30 “since I like to destro…. I mean make phone calls, you hate phone calls. Yeah you’re right I do hate phone calls.” 😂😂😂
“Be honest.”
“I just… wanna see what it’s made of..?”
“I said, be honest!”
“I just wanna see what it’s made of, on the inside.”
“Thank you.”
Brotha uhh!😂
4:34 dang I was expecting a $5,000 phone to do way better! I think it's interesting how a $300 phone can be almost perfectly sturdy and this 5,000 phone cracks right at the antenna line! Plus in the video it is discovered that there is no more gold than you would find in a iPhone for example an iPhones are priced at a much cheaper price! I might have to make an expose video on vertu in the future assuming people find more evidence that their significantly overpricing their phones
It’s bad because it’s a scam essentially. Marques went in depth about it in his video.
*cough cough* my iPhone 11 Pro Max works fine *cough cough*
1:30 me trying to see the scratches on his phone through my smashed S23 screen. Lol
Great job on the video Zack! Thanks for making it.
Marquez will definetly be happy seeing this
10:46 What do you mean Zack you borrowed it😂 not bought it so yeah he does want it back. Buttt he didn't specify if he want it in one piece or pieces so i guess you can just ship it back to him like that😂😂😂
Haha so funny 🤣 I can't control my laugh lol 😆
Bros a yt shorts enjoyer🥀💔
He can put it back together in the condition he got it and then return it, or buy Marques a new one. His choice.
please never post a comment again
@Gonzalo-zu1di Oh okay I accidentally posted this one🤦🏽♂️
3:52 when that phone slipped I saw a chair on the white part of desk and For a second I was zack you hiding something from us?? huhhh!!👀 when the wiped my screen and It was mine😶 I think I'm about to join your club
I love the sarcasm. It's very important during times like these.
Marques probably was glad he got the phone away from him
The pain i get when i see you destroying expensive mobile phones when am still using a sumsung A3 core😅 life is not fair 5:37
6:36 what is the qr code?
Probably a serial number of the component, it says: 6608040590153159A1000093NP2X
I used to work for Vertu back when they still manufacturered their phones in the UK and the build quality was excellent. Every piece was handmade with the craftsman signature on the phone. Also the red button on the side was an actual Ruby.
They had u tricked. Nobody is hand building cpus and mother boards. 95 percent of the thing is built by machines. All yall did was put a ridiculous permanent phone case on it
@w.e.s. A phone isn't just about CPU and battery, or other parts. It's about what is outside as well and that was pricey. Staff actually putting the device together piece by piece isn't easy.
Just do the xiaomi 15 ultra rn jerry
I'm drinking water more than watching Zach do anything
2:35 bro really on to something
4:03 Visca barca 💙❤️
Forca Barca💙❤️
@khalidjoarder wrong order br it's blaugrana- blue and garnet
@chosendragon85ohh my bad
6:28 ad end
I didn't even notice an ad. Anyone not using SponsorBlock is doing it wrong lol
Nordvpn sponsor trash in 2026. why?
just a shout out for the stripes movie quote.
as soon as I saw gold on the outer part of the disassembly I knew there wouldn't be any on the inside
To be fair the phone does look premium.... IF IT WAS 2005 HOLYYYYY THATS SOME STINKY DOG WATER 😂
Even Huawei's Porsche phones were made of higher quality, than this 250 dollar scam brick sold for 20 times it's worth 😅
Fool. Money. Separate. Easy.