Bank of Japan Gov. Toshihiko Fukui on Tuesday voiced delight at having to wait two weeks to get his hands on the latest cell phone model.

"Demand was that strong," Fukui told a regular news conference. "If companies work hard to provide new services and demand-generating products, customer demand will follow."

A self-proclaimed aficionado of the latest cell phone products, Fukui later confided to The Japan Times that he had bought a NTT DoCoMo 505i phone, which features a digital camera, speedy access to traffic news and an option that allows users to program their video recorders to record television shows.