Ayu phone?
 

I've never heard this mentioned. I was randomly looking at Ayu CM's on YT and found this phone commercial for a limited design leopard A print pattern.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS3OO...eature=related

Of course it's an old phone, but I wonder if anyone was able to get one? :D

Highly unlikely as it is an old phone and Japan only, oh and limited! But it looks kinda cool, reminds me of Nokia 3210 with an external antenna. =P

That would have been awesome to have :luv2.

Yeah, highly unlikely people here have it :( The odds are against us at least; limited edition, Japan-only, and it's a long time ago (and good chance at that time not many people were able to buy things casually through a middleman over the internet or something)

But it would've been totally cool to have! I don't think it's ever even seen on auction sites and such...

japanese mobiles (as angelsenshi mentioned) work only inside Japan unfortunately..just to collect the item, did you check on ebay? I had a first check but it seems there's isn't

omg so pretty! maybe she'll release another one soon ...

Oh my god, I remember when this was new!! And now it's obscure!!! I FEEL SO OLD XD!!

The A MODEL does come up occasionally on Yahoo! Auctions Japan, I do see it fairly regularly. Never usually more than one up for auction at once, however, and sometimes I see the fake display version of it (basically just a non-functioning phone casing).

@Genie : you can check out sgclub/hardwarezone ah~ i do see some sellers selling lots of different model of Japanese phone.. docomo/softbank etc. hehe

Lacus - Technically, selling them above any price isn't really "right", but rarity makes something valuable. Only one per licensed tu-ka dealer, and most of them were likely thrown away once the phone wasn't being pushed anymore. There aren't many of them left, 2000 yen would be a hell of a deal for a dummy. I usually see them go for between 4000 and 10,000 yen (I personally could reasonably be expected to pay about 6,000 yen for one).

Then again, I find officially pressed promos to be extremely valuable, while most people find them worthless (I only find the laser-printed blank cassette and CD-R ones worthless since they're easy to fake, unless they're in special casing or recorded on something like DAT tapes that most normal people don't have... even then I proceed with caution :P~). There are alot of things I'd be willing to pay for that people would never touch :P

Needless to say, a complete set of the actual working A MODEL phone is worth more, since it is functional and, if it has all its pieces, is in perfect condition nearly a decade after its release. But I wouldn't pay more than $200 for the whole thing since it is unusable outside of Japan, has limited functionality compared to modern phones, and outside of big ayu fans there's no demand for it.

I saw one on ebay when it came out, but it was $300 :thud

(I still begged my mom for it)

Ironic that I totally just read the article (more like stub) about that phone on eneabba yesterday: http://eneabba.net/ayu/disco/albums/03.Duty.htm
There's a little thing with pics at the bottom of that page.