Gresso's Las Vegas Jackpot phone costs a million dollars, seriously

When you make it your business to deliver outlandish new looks for mobile telephony, it can sometimes be a challenge to just outdo your last effort. So Gresso's decided the only way forward is to collect all the fine materials it had lying around -- black diamonds, pure gold, diamond-cut sapphire crystals, and 200-year old African Blackwood -- sprinkle them atop an otherwise nondescript featurephone, and slap on the spectacular price tag of $1,000,000. Only three Jackpots are being made, while there'll be a Las Vegas handset without the black diamonds and sapphires for the more mundanely rich among us, priced at $20,000. Oh Gresso, just one tip: next time, try to align your earpiece to your fancy designs, we hear wealthy folks appreciate some attention to detail.

[senorproducer Posted Aug 13th 2010 8:35AM]

Ahhh Jason Vorhees makes a nice Friday the 13th appearance.

[orangearrows Posted Aug 13th 2010 8:15AM]

Only if it ran froyo .....

[Concept Artist Posted Aug 13th 2010 5:46PM]

@orangearrows

You forgot, triple Boot with iOS and WP7 for that price :D

[XChrisX Posted Aug 13th 2010 8:22AM]

Surely even those who could actually afford this phone would opt for something much better.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 13th 2010 8:40AM]

There is definitely a market for luxury phones but I find it as lame market!

Almost all the luxury phones are just about bling but when it comes to features it's like using an old model of Nokia phone. I would love if the luxury phones had high end smartphone features, the buyer would not really mind to pay extra for it as he pays such a huge amount.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 13th 2010 8:40AM]

There is definitely a market for luxury phones but I find it as lame market!

Almost all the luxury phones are just about bling but when it comes to features it's like using an old model of Nokia phone. I would love if the luxury phones had high end smartphone features, the buyer would not really mind to pay extra for it as he pays such a huge amount.

[Beamo Posted Aug 13th 2010 8:43AM]

it must weight about 5 kilos.

[YanivC Posted Aug 13th 2010 8:46AM]

No wonder Jason is eyeballing that thing... the looks only an 80s horror movie icon could love :)

[Rod Posted Aug 13th 2010 8:51AM]

So we rape The Earth of it's precious materials to make this P.O.S. Generating a load of pollution in the process...and the end result is land-fill for billionaires. That's progress!

[gcims Posted Aug 13th 2010 1:09PM]

@Rod
All right tree hugger. Move along. Getting off topic into flame territory.

[slipdisc Posted Aug 13th 2010 9:01AM]

So I could buy a home, a car, a truck, a harley, a pro level home recording studio and one of every phone currently marketing in the US and still have money left over?

Yeah this sounds like a great deal

/s

[gt2mad Posted Aug 13th 2010 9:16AM]

Can I just say I think your pictures are wrong. You're showing the 'cheap' phone only. The true million dollar phone is this one :

http://st.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/10/08/jackpot/gsmarena_003.jpg

This is based on the fact the one you're showing has no diamonds!

[kevout Posted Aug 13th 2010 9:21AM]

I love Friday the 13th on this site. Keep the pics coming!

[DoctarPeppar Posted Aug 13th 2010 9:25AM]

Seriously? Who the fuck designs this shit?

[sc0rch3d Posted Aug 13th 2010 9:52AM]

@DoctarPeppar

The people that know idiots will buy them. :)

[thinkindependent Posted Aug 13th 2010 9:50AM]

Does anyone else wonder if its even worth a million dollars? I don't mean in being useful or remotely practical (which of course it's not), but in the actual value of the materials that are used to produce this sin against the tech gods. Do all the diamonds and what not add up to a million? I think I would be even more pissed if the material cost was like only 800k.

[jacques Posted Aug 13th 2010 9:51AM]

Sorry, but this thing is ugly as hell.

[dhadd Posted Aug 13th 2010 9:55AM]

I will sell you my iPhone with candy bars aroundthe outside. That way there it will alleviate the signal problem and you can have a snack.

[Bubba Gump Posted Aug 13th 2010 10:06AM]

I'll wait for the BOGO offer.

[wallerus Posted Aug 13th 2010 10:13AM]

I know someone else already mentioned, but seriously, the dude in the ski mask? Classic!

[ss hole Posted Aug 13th 2010 10:14AM]

I saw where a prince in the ME had Audi make an S4 (I think) with a silver body. If you build it, bored rich people will buy it.

[orangearrows Posted Aug 13th 2010 10:16AM]

Hope it's termite resistant .

[DoomLight Posted Aug 13th 2010 10:19AM]

That phone looks like a cheap ass Trac Phone covered in gold. FAILLLLLL. At least have the decency to use a real nice phone to cover ingold and old wood besides some run of the mill Motorola looking trac phone.

[jdeath Posted Aug 13th 2010 11:33AM]

@Bhima You may be confused; it's not capitalism when monarchs/shieks/dictators use their government powers to profit from a countries resources. That would be a government monopoly, which, as it turns out, is the opposite of capitalism.

[gcims Posted Aug 13th 2010 1:10PM]

@jdeath
Move along. Getting off topic into flame territory.

[ThisHero Posted Aug 13th 2010 11:39AM]

It's ugly, it isn't a modern design. This might be the biggest F U purchase in the history of the world.

[GetYOID Posted Aug 13th 2010 12:31PM]

Its a http://www.driodx.com

[liveag Posted Aug 13th 2010 12:32PM]

If Gresso was to build a car, it would have diamond headlights but no ABS...
Oh, and it would run on 400 year old blackwood only.

[Tizzle93 Posted Aug 13th 2010 12:48PM]

so it cost a million dollars...but does it have the wifis?

[boodiespost Posted Aug 13th 2010 1:06PM]

I'm really rich but there is no way in hell i'm getting this phone over my galaxy s

[derricob Posted Aug 13th 2010 1:14PM]

Million dollars for this pimped out Nokia look alike? Even if I had 1 billion dollars, I wouldn't get this. Even the 20k version is a rip off. Might as well buy 100 real phones

[gigastraps Posted Aug 13th 2010 1:18PM]

I like how Jason is hanging out in the bg. hah

[avalanche33 Posted Aug 13th 2010 1:29PM]

so does jason get a CUT of the profits on this phone.

[TPAYNE87 Posted Aug 13th 2010 2:15PM]

This was too easy, you can find Jason to easy.

[Samurai1984 Posted Aug 13th 2010 2:36PM]

Not bad...How much for a cover? Oh and can you wave the activation fee?

[kjsin1994 Posted Aug 13th 2010 2:38PM]

phones like this are expensive trash the only idiots would buy.

[Gandalf20000 Posted Aug 13th 2010 3:07PM]

I'm sure that if I had $1 million to spend on a cell phone, I'd be expecting a feature-filled device with excellent reception, build quality, and actually looks nice. It makes sense to call it the Las Vegas Jackpot phone: that thing is so tacky it'd be funny except for the very real $1 million price tag.

[Rosco911 Posted Aug 13th 2010 5:18PM]

YEAH JASON!!! kill this ugly shit....

[Gyalis Posted Aug 13th 2010 5:54PM]

What's the street price of this? The retail price is always a little over inflated...

[amandajuli Posted Aug 13th 2010 5:59PM]

Wow...it's so ugly even Jason Voorhies has to hide from it behind a roulette table...

[Dannyp32 Posted Aug 14th 2010 2:16AM]

I hope i find one of these laying around in a bar...

[cbanks7 Posted Aug 14th 2010 2:50AM]

Creepy right =D!!!

[mkhpalm Posted Aug 14th 2010 1:30PM]

What a pile of shit