New Docomo phone from 3.0

SenorSquiid · Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 9:08 pm Post subject:

^^
Aka people who don't actually use the things they buy? Cause those watches don't tell me a lot, but one of the things they don't tell me is the time.

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Sgt. Griff · Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 9:41 pm Post subject:

Watching the video...

Nerrif? Mayjy?

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**Ornette** · Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 2:46 pm Post subject:

It's a novelty, it's a toy, like a realistic looking prog knife or a red school laptop, except one that you can buy that actually works. Someone who's not a hardcore fan isn't going to want one, and I myself have been noting that the UI looks completely unusable, but as a novelty item, it looks pretty amazing. I'd love to own one just to show it off, maybe I'd eventually get used to the UI but most likely I'd want to throw the phone over a cliff since I hate usability like that.

I remember way back in the 80's and early 90's when people ran Xconsoles in their window managers that were customizable and people were adding tons of status bars, xloads, buttons, printer spools, timers, memory/cpu usages, etc. Slowed everything down and looked ugly. And also when Compiz was a big fad, with the cube desktop switcher, fancy animations, etc. I'll stick with what I've been using for 20 years, 3 terminals per desktop, no window decorations, title bars, borders, scroll bars, etc and 3 desktops with browsers and other things that actually require a mouse to use. This phone is clearly falls into that Compiz category, it's flashy for the sake of flashy, with a theme that's detailed and unique based on the computer system in a fictional anime.

Also, some more videos:
Video detailing the UI, exterior and extras
A live demo of the phone, but the glare gets kind of annoying

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SenorSquiid · Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 7:18 pm Post subject:

It's like a collectible toy, but also comes with a contract.

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transcendent12 · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 9:18 pm Post subject:

Eva store has an advertisement about preorder happening at 10am 16th june

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.evastore.jp/&ei=LbPST-KiKefD0QWc2pH6Aw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CHUQ7gEwBQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Devastore%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DWpr%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26channel%3Dfflb%26prmd%3Dimvns

Google translate sucks for a lot of it and I can't read japanese. Can't tell what the deal is with contracts. Would I be correct in guessing that it costs 101540 yen? (£825 D: ) horribly expensive XD

Where's a winning lottery ticket when you need one =D

edit: already someone putting it up on ebay before they even got one(two)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Evangelion-SH-06D-NERV-/220996955652?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item337471ee04

yeah...bargain...

deeRez · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 9:42 pm Post subject:

transcendent12 wrote:

Eva store has an advertisement about preorder happening at 10am 16th june

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.evastore.jp/&ei=LbPST-KiKefD0QWc2pH6Aw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CHUQ7gEwBQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Devastore%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DWpr%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26channel%3Dfflb%26prmd%3Dimvns

Google translate sucks for a lot of it and I can't read japanese. Can't tell what the deal is with contracts. Would I be correct in guessing that it costs 101540 yen? (£825 D: ) horribly expensive XD

Where's a winning lottery ticket when you need one =D

edit: already someone putting it up on ebay before they even got one(two)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Evangelion-SH-06D-NERV-/220996955652?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item337471ee04

yeah...bargain...

That's a rip off - but as for the contract/no-contract, it seems to be contract-less ... somewhat...

First it says:
"The agreement is not accompanied by a communication line, only sold the terminal. "
The contract is not accompanied by a phone network, only selling the device.

Then it says:
"Customers are, you will be required to contract separately with NTT DoCoMo FOMA telecommunications companies other than NTT DoCoMo. "
Customers without telecom company NTT DoCoMo, will require a separate agreement with NTT DoCoMo FOMA.

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TheFriskyIan · Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 9:55 am Post subject:

SenorSquiid wrote:

^^
Aka people who don't actually use the things they buy? Cause those watches don't tell me a lot, but one of the things they don't tell me is the time.

I would never buy something I couldn't use, despite how bad ass it is. For example, I wouldn't buy Gundam Models because I can't put them together. It was challenge for me just putting Bionicles togather and now these Gundam/Evangelion Model Kits want to up the difficulty.

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transcendent12 · Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 12:36 pm Post subject:

anyways, looks like these are all selling out as expected with so low quantities produced.

SenorSquiid · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:12 pm Post subject:

TheFriskyIan wrote:

I would never buy something I couldn't use, despite how bad ass it is. For example, I wouldn't buy Gundam Models because I can't put them together. It was challenge for me just putting Bionicles togather and now these Gundam/Evangelion Model Kits want to up the difficulty.

This, except there's nothing badass about Android phone. Pop a NERV logo on my iphone and bam, better Evangelion phone than the actual Evangelion phone.

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