Evangelion Phone
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: May 20, 2009 17:01 JST
- Tags: Anime Goods, Cosplay, Evangelion, Keitai, Marketing, Movies, NTT
In another entirely unsurprising announcement of yet more Evangelion merchandising, NTT Docomo has announced that they will release an actual phone as a tie-in with next month’s Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance film.
According to the phone’s site, the “SH-06A NERV” special edition phone will be designed by director Hideaki Anno and also Studio Khara, with the handset made by Sharp.
The package will include themed accessories and packaging, and the phone itself make an appearance in the movie as well. This will presumably make the item a cunningly essential purchase for cosplayers from here on.
Numbers are limited to 30,000, so pre-ordering is advised. Needless to say, the phone will not be appearing on non-Japanese networks.
Via Gigazine.
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Looks hella spiffy. I could see myself getting that.
Yes, i want one ^^
but i dont think they sold this in german
Yeah they wont sell this in our Deutschland.
=/
Quite the amount of Deutsche hier. I feel even more at home now :3
Unless that phone supports UMTS we wouldn't be able to use it here anyway, so it's not that big of a loss.
Deutschland: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
Asuka approves.
i want one!!
how much??
HOLY SHIT! I hate cell phones but this looks frikkin sweet. Must have!
This
is
EVANGELION!
SPARTA!!!!
C-C-Combo Breaker!!
Fail
I haven't even seen this series and I want this
won't be much use to me unless i can get the language set to english and get it activated by Verizon. looks neat though
it's language is english when I saw the official site...dunno if it's the default or not...
God this thing looks good. I'd buy one for the sake of having one regardless of whether I could even call anyone with it.
Very awesome design.
Fake, but primordially awesome.
Fake?
Are you fucking retarded or something?
Yes, I'm retarded.
Point proven, anon?
Yep.
wait! I'm not done chewing that old bone!
But can it kill the iphone?
iphone>>>this
I am sticking with my iphone. This looks sleek but doesn't seem to have the versatility of iphone. In fact I will take a Blackberry Storm or Google G1 over this.
your iPhone won't make most of the otaku community goes "doki doki" when you whip it out to answer a call
That
..im going with my blackberry..
I want the Eden of the East phone...
me too...we can get 10 billion yen to spend and a secretary as a bonus...
but this phone's cool!!! can people outside japan PO this cellphone??
And then you can get killed after you: a) spend all the money, or b) don't accomplish anything
T.T
I wouldn't mind the Be@r brick...
LOL! BEAR BRICK MINI FTW!!!!
omg after looking online i found out that japan has the phones where you tap it on the thing like in eden to the east but they dont look as cool its called osaifu keitai i think
Japan gets the best promo cellphones. Do want this one as well.
First thing I thought of when I saw article.
Yup Eden of the East phone is much cooler.
yeah but Eden of the East sucks
Blasphemy.
I want a Gurren Lagaan phone!
"It is your phone that will pierce the Heavens!"
and your heart!
'Juiz, get me a some Selecao phones, not this fugly shit.'
+1
be careful what you wish for......in EotE website NEC do have the phone prototype though...
here's the link:-
http://www.nec-dp.co.jp/information/20090409.html
Holy shit!! Awesome!! Now thats a WIN in my book. I want this! Fuck EVAN phone!
Why do I want this so much?
I want it T.T
It reminds me far too much of those grey 80's cell phones that are 3 inches thick and have those ugly green and red buttons. If that's what they're going for, then cool, but I'm failing to see the aesthetics here.
It's designed by Anno. That's your explanation.
I still prefere the Zaku phone with the red head as charging base :D
Is there like a petition or something to get stateside phone companies to bring this over? Because this just made the "must-have" list! Everything about it screams awesomeness!!!
Sweeeet, I want! I want!!!
but can you make calls on it?
or here's a better question, how can I preorder the Rei themed one?
Evangelion aside, the design are indeed astonishing. Too bad very few cell designers in the industry know the concept of 'original' or 'attractive'
Rumor has it Sony is gonna roll out a PSP phone this Christmas. That's gonna be a much better buy than this.
ITS PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME
for lubricating your butt you mean? You don't use phones for that. That's what dildoes are for.
It looks nice but imma stick with my iphone, but the be@rbrick medicomXeva key chain/phone strap is a must cop I need that lol
Looks neat. but what i REALLY want is a working Dennou Coil glasses phone.
Better than the phones we get here. Love those Japanese phones..
DO WANT~!
Shi-
I need one ;_;
Hmm, then later on we'll be having the phones as seen as in Higashi no Eden at a limited stock of 12 (maybe?). I'm voting for the Selecao phones but this one is not bad too xD
me prefer eden of the east's phone
This one does look nice... too bad it doesn't work on US lul.
Hmmm, the price wasn't mentioned... Guess it's of the same "calibre" as the other stuff. :\
I bet it will be even more pricy than EVA watch.
Maybe more the those stupid EVA sneakers!
You forgot about Doritos :p
Never have I wanted a new phone this badly... *drools at Eva phone*
Very nice. I love how the phone looks so simple. Me want new phone.
But I still don't like flip phones that much, if it was slide, it will be even better.
Still looking for my Higashi no Eden licensed phone. Apparently I Am [Not] Alone.
Third, upper middle pic: touch the boobie for settings~
omg cool as ice this is~
i want!
Why is this shitty franchise popular again?
with the WATCH + SNEAKER + PHONE + ? = COMPLETE...
What's lack now would be the SUIT...may be undies will come b4 that...
Not going anywhere without the Evangeion headphones. I don't mean the generic cheap earbud ones announced a couple weeks ago either. I mean the giant ugly A.T.EVA1 ones made by Audio Technica. They aren't Jecklin Float ugly, but they're bad enough.
weird..and no its not the phone its me...
i dont own one yet because i would barely use it and just lose it somewhere sooner or later..
and then this just gave me a no reason to buy one...
Argh! I want this bad! Is there anyway to preorder this? Link me!!!
Man that looks soooo cool. i would love to have one. But its an only Japan thing. Man i wish i was living there then i would not have to miss out on all the games and stuff like that.
Wow... not bad.
Sharp's phones are awesome.
I also have a japanese Cellphone from Sharp.
I want one T_T This phone would look bad ass when I flip it open during the end of the world, haha..o_O!
I'm in the market for a new cell phone. Definitely'd consider this one.
You gotta be kidding me.
They don't say how much it is!
DO WANT!!! 8D
So they're finally going to have consumer technology that belongs in 2015?
Guess Shinji's gonna have to throw out that walkman.
That EvaPhone looks just as badass as the display of the Eva Watch. Makes me want to buy one as well.
What next are they gonna come up with? Red Evangelion laptops that looked like the ones shown in the anime? Angel-shaped USB flash drives?
Theres already Rei flash drives
I can't help but lol when I see the picture accompanying this article. The phones in the original Eva series were so huge and clunky. They seem enthralled with the idea of HOLY SHIT PHONES THAT FLIP CLOSED AND BECOME SMALL. Gotta love Tokyo-3's selective technological advancement.
I don't like the color and that phone seems like a toy.
Gray with red and letters and numbers in green is an inharmonious and awful color combination.
I will keep my Blackberry.
Heeeh.
A long, LONG, way away from the noblesse oblige, but I'll take it.
the phone goes berserk,self-dials to SEELE and launches a full-scale attack;all hope was lost.Spear of Longinus not included.
Probably one of the most serious thing they're selling but i think i'll stay with my own N95, this one doesn't really attracts me even if the design is quite nice...
DO FUCKING WANT
found it in my forum,,some Higashi no Eden's cellphone being made:
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/3734/1242959971139.jpg
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/8703/1242960121190.jpg
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/1051/1242960284296.jpg
Are all of the displays on that phone in LCD like that? Because that is just as badass as the EvaPhone.
If I were a phone collector, I don't know which one to get first! How much do both cost??
...Happy Rei chattering on the phone like a normal Japanese teenage girl?
DOES NOT COMPUTE
Its fine. she needs to be somewhat normal for A lucky guy to marry her.
Oh man, if Telcel or Movistar sold these things...
YEAP
Side effects of over use may include:
Mental Breakdowns
Constant Screaming
Hallucinations
Mood swings
Ability to produce AT-Fields
Ability to destroy the world
Use With caution.
Wow costs almost 10k yen... that's bout 1k USD!