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Gresso's $1 Million Cell Phone Has Diamonds But No Apps

by Terrence O'Brien on August 13, 2010 at 02:50 PM

Gresso's Las Vegas Luxor Jackpot
The luxury feature phone market is one that we'll truly never understand. It seems to us that slapping diamonds and gold on phones still stuck in 2004 is a waste of both money and raw materials. But our smug attitude isn't enough to stop companies like Gresso from pushing these suckers, adorned with some of the rarest goods on Earth, to status-craving moneybags. The $1 million Las Vegas Luxor Jackpot may not be the world's most expensive phone, but it's not far behind, thanks to its rows of black diamonds, a polished sapphire keypad, 18k gold faceplate -- and a back plate made of 200-year-old African blackwood. (Because, apparently, plastic is for plebes.)

Only three of the Luxor Jackpots are being made. The rest of you will have to make do with the plain Jane Las Vegas Luxor handset, which ditches the black diamonds and sapphires, as well as $980,000 of the price tag. But don't worry; the pedestrian $20,000 Luxor still gets you into the exclusive club of rich idiots willing to pay insane amounts of money for a useless piece of luxury that you gave up with your brick phone of '04. [From: Gresso, via: Engadget]

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