Those phones make me want to buy one and I love the black one.

*ring ring ring*
Misato: "Asuka and friends! We need your help!"
*cue cartoon theme song*

UGH! I hate those calls...

Me too, especially when my Giant robot has JUST broken down. >_>

sold out in 5 hours

grr i want it again

20,000 mobile phones...

I'm sure you'll be able to pick them up off a pile once the original owners have shipped out to Dubai.

Kind of OT, but since you mention it...

http://www.animenews.biz/nec-to-launch-cellphone-as-eden-of-the-east-tie-in.html

Interview of DoCoMo about the phones: http://trendy.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/pickup/20090617/1027097/

Some pictures of the announcement: http://trendy.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/pickup/20090617/1027097/04_px250.jpg

Does that say that it wasn't so much Anno designed the phone (in the movie) but that they decided on the collaboration and choose an existing phone made by Sharp and just added Nerv stuff to it and grooves?

Phone's box: http://trendy.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/pickup/20090617/1027097/12_px250.jpg

Phone's user's manual: http://trendy.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/pickup/20090617/1027097/14_px400.jpg

Dedicated carrying case (looks pretty stupid): http://trendy.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/pickup/20090617/1027097/15_px250.jpg

What's this? http://trendy.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/pickup/20090617/1027097/22_px200.jpg

review of the phone: http://www.evageeks.org/2009/07/a-first-look-at-the-sh-06-nerv-phones/

an 8mp camera on a phone is pretty impressive

^you should see all the stuff that's first made in Japan, it's been the most technologically advanced nation in the world for a while now

they invented most every portable music player in the last few decades and had things like digital cameras, flat screen HDTV's, Wi-Fi and smartphones several years before any other nation had such

Somebody sent me a link of the Unlocked version of the phone being sold on Ebay for $1,600.00!!

I wonder if anybody will actually dish out the money to buy it? They'd be one lucky SOB what with all those features, that's for sure.

...Though I'm somewhat skeptical on whether or not it COULD work in the States or anywhere else other then Japan.

While on Paris I saw a 5000 Euro phone. For a second I thought it had to do with Eva (absorbitant price), but no. It was like fashion designed. Still, you can buy a car for that cash.