I’ve written a couple of times how in Japan seeing a wayward iPhone is rarer than it normally is elsewhere. That’s because hack-and-kracks don’t work there (their system has different requirements that the iPhone hardware does not have yet). So seeing one in Apple-crazy Japan is not too common, and the craving seems to have given rise to odd things - like this Sony Ericsson slider that someone there modified to look like an iPhone:

Gizmodo calls it the “saddest iPhone” they’ve ever seen. I agree.