The Gresso Regal Black is the newest option to be considered by fans of luxury and limited edition gadgets, but only if they are ready to splurge on it. Coming from the manufacturer of the Grand Premiere and Grand Monaco amongst others, the device draws inspiration from speed and marine themes.
Embedded with an 860mAh standard lithium-ion battery, the handset is expected to survive talk time of up to 5.4 hours or a standby duration of about 300 hours. It operates on the Symbian S40 mobile platform, which is widely used by Nokia for its feature phones. Prior to this, the OS was also seen in the Vertu line of luxury gadgets. The flip side of the royal-looking mobile phone shows off a 2MP camera.
While the Gresso offering has been equipped with up to 30MB internal memory, the hoarding space can be expanded by inserting a microSD card of a maximum of 2GB capacity. With dimensions measuring 121 x 46 x 12 millimeters, this one tips the scale at 130g. It offers connectivity options like GPRS, Bluetooth, EDGE, WAP and more.
Primarily made up of a single solid titanium slab, the end product carries only 9 percent of the metal that is originally used. It is then hand-polished with a black PVD surface cover, which is said to show off a rough mat metal texture. Furthermore, the buttons are composed of a kind of steel that should survive rough handling to a certain extent.
The Gresso Regal Black price tag is estimated to read $5000 (approx. Rs. 2,56,100). Only 333 such handsets are being manufactured and these will be commercially released in April 2012.
