Evangelion Keitai Sold Out in 5 Hours!

June 5, 2009 by Toonleap
Filed under News, Oddities

20,000 preorders for the Evangelion Mobile Phone just sold out in less than 5 hours…I am an Evangelion fan…BUT!…There are 900 reasons why most of us will not buy it!

Pre-orders for the 20,000 “Eva Mobile Phones” — the phones whose design Hideaki Anno and Studio Khara supervised for their next Evangelion film — sold out on Friday in just five hours. The “Nerv-only” phone will appear in Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, the second of Anno and Khara’s four theatrical remakes of Gainax’s Neon Genesis Evangelion science-fiction television anime series. 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. By 3:00 p.m, NTT docomo had to announce that all phone pre-orders had sold out. 10,000 more phones will be sold in regular stores from the end of this month until the beginning of July.

In the fictional story, the “Type 5 information management and control device” was developed for personnel of the secretive Nerv organization, using MAGI System technology that has rarely been provided to civilian companies. 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. Users can choose from over 2,000 Evangelion-theme menu layouts, alert window animation sequences, vocal ringtones, sounds, clock displays, and standby images.

Source: Mantan Web, Keitai Watch via ANN

US$900.00 dollars for a celphone? No offense, but for that amount of money, there are better Keitai out there…or I could even buy a good laptop or any other nice gadget!

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