I didn’t realize this, but it seems that the Media Skin prototype that was designed a while back by Tokujin Yoshioka for the “AU Design Project” is finally going into production. Link via SFTE.
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love the cell phone and let me know when it comes out
The phone has been out for about a month now.
where can i get it?
If in stock, then at any store that sells mobile phones. But it’s my understanding that they were really hard to come by as soon as it went on sale — which is not unusual with phones from the AU Design Project — and I don’t know if things got any better.
A friend of mine, who can’t comment “officially”, says that they (i.e. au) may start taking them out of the au stores sometime soon because they are running out of stock. (Reminds me of the problems you had with the Neon, Jean.)
Not surprising. I guess that’s the deal with these AU Design Project phones, they all go on sale for a very limited time (shorter sale life than even regular phones).
How may I get a media skin phone?
thanks…
Addison
Do you mean internationally? It’s not available outside of Japan.