From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6430779 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6430779 seems they did send most of the gold phones to Asia, and all sold

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6430779 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6430779 seems they did send most of the gold phones to Asia, and all sold out first day. Still may be a bizarre cultural misunderstanding, as sounds like it's crazy popular everywhere else too. Expect every smartphone maker make & push gold phones hard after today. ETA: Note "seems". That's my impression from the link, no hard data seen yet.