20,000 Evangelion Phones Sold Out
In barely 5 hours, 20,000 Evangelion mobile phones which have been put up for preorders, have all been sold out. The true power of otakus. Or more likely, otaku-must-have-exclusives?
The NTT docomo shops of telecommunications provider NTT began taking pre-orders for Sharp’s SH-06A NERV phone for 90,000 yen (about US$900) on Friday at 10:00 a.m.
A mobile phone cost 90,000 yen and 20,000 of them were sold out during preorders within 5 hours?! Omg. I don’t see this happening in Singapore at all >_>. Our “exclusive” phone designs don’t even go till $900(USD)!! Lol.
The 135-gram (4.76-ounce) phone features a 3.3-inch main display, a 10-megapixel outer camera, and a 0.4-megapixel inner camera. A Nerv logo hologram appears on the matte-coated casing, and the phone comes with an exclusive Frame Holder 01 case/stand and a Nerv 50% Be@rbrick mascot strap.
Okay the power of otakus are scary. Would you pay this much for an anime-related phone or you rather spend it on games or figurines? :P
Source: ANN
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I would not… then again the current cell phone I have was free about 4 years ago and I rarely use it xD
An Eden of the East phone… maybe… o.o
That phone looks really cool, but doesn’t even look like it has as many features as my $200 unlocked touchscreen smartphone. =/
Jesus christ, $900 for a fucking phone…otaku must be the easiest market demographic to market to.
That said, it IS a cool phone.