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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[Now, on to making a tasteful phone ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Walrus]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 4:38PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[ha, i actually didn't laugh at that...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[i love vinay patel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 5:16PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[I think that's hilarious. Especially considering their crazy dragon/snake phone. What a POS- especially considering the brilliant N97 & E71 designs.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Anthony]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 11:11PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[if u look hard enough u can see masage parlor sign inside.,says "free happy ending"]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[shugg]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 22nd 2009 12:53AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[Why does that building look like a PC case?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[OneLove]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 22nd 2009 9:54AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[first!!!!!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mercentleyCLGT]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 4:41PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[Ooooo, ouch ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Walrus]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 4:46PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[don't they have 2 vegas stores?<br>if not ... i was reeeeeeeeeeeeeealy drunk]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 4:42PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA["real commitment to VALUE for your hard-earned dollar " ... seriously, "VALUE" ?? That's like saying Ferrari is committed to offering value for your dollar. I don't think value is anywhere on their corporate agenda. Luxury item for a niche market - sure. But when you say 'value' it makes me want to say ' lay off the crack pipe'.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[siddharth s]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 4:57PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[Your post makes me want to say sarcasm sar⋅casm<br> <br> /ˈsɑrkæzəm/ [sahr-kaz-uhm] <br>–noun<br>1. 	harsh or bitter derision or irony.<br>2. 	a sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Loonie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 5:03PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA["'lay off the crack pipe."<br><br>...exactly :]]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Anthony]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 9:12PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[i'm normally a very nice person, but wow you're so dumb.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[maveric101]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 11:10PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[Looks like a contemporary bar.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[fieldcar]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 4:59PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[F the phones I would love to throw a big party with many happy endings in that building.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brandon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 23rd 2009 8:53PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'm sure they'll get lots of business.....]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[zephxiii]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 5:02PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[Y'know, Nokia made that building, they just covered it in titanium and valued it at ten times the price.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ethan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 5:03PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[I see what you did there. The internets, you win them]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jarhead2012]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 5:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'll have to stop in for a laugh when I'm there in April since my hotel is walking distance from there...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 5:05PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[Am I going to have to point out the dragon abomination again? I think so haha<br><br><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/24/vertu-signature-dragon-handset-puts-the-ugh-in-luxury/" rel="nofollow">http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/24/vertu-signature-dragon-handset-puts-the-ugh-in-luxury/</a><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ch4s3r]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 5:08PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[My cousin has one of these and I played with it for 2 days and I gotta say.. not impressed?  Maybe I dont appreciate the fact that its hand built but to me it kind of seemed less useful than my Motorola v600 from a couple years back...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Name Baller]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 5:11PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[Pics or it didn't happen...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Oscarv77]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 5:47PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[great phones, but prefer the iPhone.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cybergypsy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 5:16PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[Same here....<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jash Sayani]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 6:30PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[Needs more Nokia and less Vertu.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[UnixSystemsEngineer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 8:12PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA["...we're still kicking ourselves for being too busy to check out the company's store in Las Vegas during CES..."<br><br>I went to it while I was in Vegas during CES and went to the Wynn/Encore.  The store....nothing special.  The phones...bleh.  I actually laughed at the one with the dragon abomination.  The sales guy didn't seem pleased by my reaction.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 5:25PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[There must be no less skilled job than salesman at a high-end boutique like this.  They must know the phones aren't worth anything except as a status symbol, and their customers probably aren't looking to be sold on anything features-wise.  You'd just spend all day shooing out the cheap riffraff like myself, dealing with snide questions regarding the true value of the overpriced junk, then waiting for people with more money than taste to walk in and buy.<br><br>Basically it's like a bouncer who knows how to run a cash register.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[UnixSystemsEngineer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 8:15PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[VERTU --- Very Expensive Rare Thing, u know.<br><br>J/K<br><br>Very nice design building.<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Benzodiazepine]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 10:00PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[Good luck Nokia (Vertu) with selling an overpriced phone for people with no taste in one of the most advanced AND refined luxury markets of the world which is also one of the most advanced markets for mobile phone technology. <br><br>Early last year I was already concerned about this move by Nokia<br><a href="http://blog.cyber-media.co.jp/en.php?s=luxury&submit=Go" rel="nofollow">http://blog.cyber-media.co.jp/en.php?s=luxury&submit=Go</a><br>but given the current economic situation even in Japan I wonder it this will not be a pure suicide...<br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cybermobilistas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 21st 2009 10:21PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[They've also got a couple of stoes in Doha, Qatar and Bahrain]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kei]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 22nd 2009 12:19AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[Yay world economy :D]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[superhobo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 22nd 2009 2:15AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[You can get a service with Vertu, where you make a call and can ask for anything from a private jet to a 16 yo virgin (where legal).]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[goggggggo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 22nd 2009 4:23AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[Engadget has a history of dissing Vertu, either this post is complete sarcasm, or a marketing technique.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ilya]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 22nd 2009 3:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vertu opens tasteful, refined retail location in Japan]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/vertu-opens-tasteful-refined-retail-store-in-japan/</guid><description><![CDATA[In Japan it will sell BECAUSE it's expensive. This is a place where people will go out of their way to shop at a more expensive supermarket to show off the shopping bags they'll throw away. Where schoolgirls will sell their virginity for a hideous handbag with LVLVLVLV spammed over it.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mustaine]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 23rd 2009 8:33AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
