{"id":473941,"date":"2010-03-26T05:29:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T09:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=28487"},"modified":"2010-03-26T05:29:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T09:29:40","slug":"vertu-to-sell-4-golden-cell-phones-in-japan-price-215000-each","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/473941","title":{"rendered":"Vertu to sell 4 golden cell phones in Japan (price: $215,000 each)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/vertu_2-620x620.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nokia pulled out of Japan, one of the world&#8217;s biggest mobile markets, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2008\/11\/28\/nokia-gives-up-japan-almost-will-possibly-focus-more-on-china-and-india\/\">as early as November 2008<\/a>. But because this country is quite wealthy, the Finnish company decided to conquer Japan with their luxury brand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vertu.com\/jp-jp\/#jp-jp_\">Vertu<\/a> [JP], <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2008\/11\/25\/nokia-plans-to-bring-its-vertu-luxury-brand-to-japan-is-poised-to-fail\/\">starting operations<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2009\/09\/07\/nokia-starts-offering-vertu-mobile-phone-services-in-japan\/\">in September 2009<\/a>. Initially the plan was to market handsets priced between $16,000 and $50,000.<\/p>\n<p>But today Vertu Japan announced a &#8220;golden&#8221; handset with a price tag of 20 million yen (it&#8217;s made-in-Japan gold lacquerwork, to be more exact). That&#8217;s $215,000, with the price including free domestic calls. Buyers will be able to choose between four equally priced models: Kinko (pictured above), Kikusui, Nanten and Daigo (pictured below). The different designs stand for the different seasons of the year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/mc1kHdLCdPjbioVhTZdYULXbEk4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/mc1kHdLCdPjbioVhTZdYULXbEk4\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/mc1kHdLCdPjbioVhTZdYULXbEk4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/mc1kHdLCdPjbioVhTZdYULXbEk4\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=ZggErBVQ9zE:es1a0AI9Jfg:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=ZggErBVQ9zE:es1a0AI9Jfg:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=ZggErBVQ9zE:es1a0AI9Jfg:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=ZggErBVQ9zE:es1a0AI9Jfg:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=ZggErBVQ9zE:es1a0AI9Jfg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nokia pulled out of Japan, one of the world&#8217;s biggest mobile markets, as early as November 2008. But because this country is quite wealthy, the Finnish company decided to conquer Japan with their luxury brand Vertu [JP], starting operations in September 2009. Initially the plan was to market handsets priced between $16,000 and $50,000. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}