maemo.org - Talk - OPK: N900 deliveries have now started!!

Damn it, I might cancel with Amazon and go with Dell. The only problem is that I searched and searched and couldn't find the N900 on Dell's website.
Anyone care to share a link? or are they not taking any more orders?

Dell already went through their initial allocation, so pulled the N900 from their site due to the surge in orders. They had a discounted price for a few hours and they got slammed with orders.

r0eladn

2009-11-12 02:16

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hows the fried chicken over there?

here it tastes old and fabricated. But i guess where you live it must be straight from the chickenfarm?

sjgadsby

2009-11-12 02:26

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Enough with the personal attacks. Please keep it on topic and refrain from attacking others. Thank you.

RTbar

2009-11-12 02:26

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anyone else hear from amazon

tehsu

2009-11-12 02:48

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Nothing official from Amazon yet

zfarooq

2009-11-12 02:52

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does anybody remember if the N97 shipped first from NokiaUSA or AMAZON?

tehsu

2009-11-12 02:54

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NokiaUSA shipped week of June 7th and I think amazon was like June 20th

Rushmore

2009-11-12 03:24

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Originally Posted by r0eladn (Post 373156)

hows the fried chicken over there?

here it tastes old and fabricated. But i guess where you live it must be straight from the chickenfarm?

Fried chicken is same everywhere. Chicken farms are not very common here. There are KFC's all over Europe. Those and Kebab shops were our favorite places for absorbing alcohol binges when I lived there. Mainly was in England but went to many countries and places including Amsterdam. My main memories are Anne Frank's house and giant french frie boxes and a weird green sauce at McDonald's. You dutchies really like your fries. I bet they taste fresh with potato farms there. ;)

Oh yeah, and the Red Light District ;)

blackbox

2009-11-12 04:16

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Originally Posted by tehsu (Post 373169)

NokiaUSA shipped week of June 7th and I think amazon was like June 20th

I remember though there was an incident in which the Nokia 5800 was released on amazon before Nokia.com?!

Venomrush

2009-11-12 04:49

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Originally Posted by tehsu (Post 373169)

NokiaUSA shipped week of June 7th and I think amazon was like June 20th

Nokia Online Store always ship before everyone elses I believe, it's from Nokia!
Although the flagship stores seem to get them first before the online store sending out the handsets.

The fastest possible way to get your hand on the handset is to head to a flagship store. Although I wouldn't recommend it, if you wait for a few days, you can save yourself quite a lot of money :)

Imtiyaz

2009-11-12 04:53

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I reorder from nokia usa and the sales agent was so sure that n900 gone ship tomorrow and i will have it by monday... I was happy..

But here comes the sad part..

After 15 mins i get call from the same guy .. he said Nokia N900 will ship at end of November.. So nobody i guess is getting before end of this month.. nor amazon nor newegg i am not sure about others..

eikido

2009-11-12 07:17

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guys haven't you learned that NOBODY KNOWS.

only a few ppl knows. VERY FEW!

RTbar

2009-11-12 07:51

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canceled my n900 and bought a bunch of silver.... if i was investing the money tied up all this time i probably could have paid for the phone already with profits

RevdKathy

2009-11-12 08:10

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If Nokia delay supply to Third party retailers like Play and Amazon till Christmas, they may well find themselves in a nasty spot. They can afford to lose my goodwill. Not so sure they can afford to lose Amazon's.

Besides which, the original date which Nokia gave Amazon was 26th October - exactly the same as their own release. Why change policy now?

I suspect what you have heard is that the shops, places like Carphone Warehouse and such, will be getting it a bit later. From what I understand, that's pretty normal.

att	2009-11-12 08:37

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Originally Posted by RevdKathy (Post 373295)

Besides which, the original date which Nokia gave Amazon was 26th October - exactly the same as their own release. Why change policy now?

We don't know if 26th Oct came from Nokia, or for example if Amazon's wholesaler guessed.

thiswayup

2009-11-12 08:55

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Originally Posted by Kieron (Post 372795)

Which network and package did you go with? I'm thinking Voda 30+web, 300mins unl text&web. Best they got - would have preferred t-mobile :(

Kieron,

I went 600 mins, Unltd texts and web. Your plan £30 + web.

£35 a month.

shadow12

2009-11-12 09:06

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Originally Posted by RTbar (Post 373288)

canceled my n900 and bought a bunch of silver.... if i was investing the money tied up all this time i probably could have paid for the phone already with profits

Did silver really change that much? I know gold is on the up and up but silver!?! Also the payment shouldn't come out until the item is shipped, or was it different for you.

mchu6am4

2009-11-12 09:08

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I really really hope we get some good news today about shipping from Nokia UK!

hashier

2009-11-12 09:49

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Amazon US -> 550Dollar
Amazon Germany -> 900Dollar

It's an European device and we European shall pay twice as much.

Why?

shadow12

2009-11-12 09:52

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Because we have a stronger currency, silly :(
Your salary when converted to dollars should be nearly twice as high as your counterpart in the US. Whether this is actually true or not I do no know.

kkhitzat

2009-11-12 09:53

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You wouldn't like the answer... :mad:

bemymonkey

2009-11-12 10:10

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Originally Posted by shadow12 (Post 373336)

Because we have a stronger currency, silly :(
Your salary when converted to dollars should be nearly twice as high as your counterpart in the US. Whether this is actually true or not I do no know.

I wouldn't be too sure about that...

sharper

2009-11-12 10:13

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Originally Posted by hashier (Post 373334)

Amazon US -> 550Dollar
Amazon Germany -> 900Dollar

It's an European device and we European shall pay twice as much.

Why?

Amazon UK works out at €550. The only way I could buy it for the "proper" euro price was to buy it in pounds :)

fouro

2009-11-12 10:20

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It's an European device and we European shall pay twice as much.

Few reasons come into my mind quickly here:

- Different taxes
- Differences in currencies
- Different markets => different pricing (it isn't about charity, it's about profits)

There might be other reasons too affecting it, like labour price (not only salary paid, but also other mandatory costs for employer), logistics (device is shipping from South Korea, not Europe) and so on.

sharper

2009-11-12 10:43

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The German expansys site is a lot more reasonable €565 http://www.expansys.de/d.aspx?i=188856

bemymonkey

2009-11-12 10:47

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Google says: 565 Euros = 847.8955 U.S. dollars

Still a pretty big difference to $550

SubCore

2009-11-12 10:59

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this has been discussed ad nauseum already.
search around a bit, you'll find several answers for the big difference, foremost the very, very weak dollar.

sharper

2009-11-12 11:08

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Originally Posted by bemymonkey (Post 373381)

Google says: 565 Euros = 847.8955 U.S. dollars

Still a pretty big difference to $550

That's today's currency exchange rate. The last couple of years have been a bit of a rollercoaster for the dollar and product pricing doesn't follow exchange rates precisely. Nokia has to compete with other devices and has to price for the market.

benny1967

2009-11-12 11:09

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Originally Posted by Peter@Maemo Marketing (Post 371541)

Sorry, I'd have to politely decline :)

... because of me? :D

Venomrush

2009-11-12 11:39

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Originally Posted by bemymonkey (Post 373381)

Google says: 565 Euros = 847.8955 U.S. dollars

Still a pretty big difference to $550

That 565 has 17.5% tax in it that EU customers have to pay for..

bemymonkey

2009-11-12 11:42

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Good point. :)

eltinio

2009-11-12 11:46

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Holland:
around 530 euro 19% tax so 530 / 1.19 = 445 euro x 1.5 = 667.5 $

It's still more but not that extreme

mchu6am4

2009-11-12 11:50

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No offence intended, but can we please keep the topic of price in another thread as this thread is dedicated to deliveries of N900...thanks

aironeous

2009-11-12 12:55

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Originally Posted by r0eladn (Post 372910)

the boat has left korea not long ago...

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LOL holy crap

mchu6am4

2009-11-12 13:00

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Let's hope it doesn't get hijacked by Somali pirates on the way...

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...1.4b93102.html

simpsons

2009-11-12 13:46

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this branch of thread is so annoying, please just used the one that already have 2900 post on it ><

SubCore

2009-11-12 13:55

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Originally Posted by God (Post 373554)

lol what a bunch of dirty goons.

haha. funny.

if the whole world dumps their toxic and radioactive waste in front of your coast while you struggle to survive, you wouldn't be best pleased, either.

Fargus

2009-11-12 14:05

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Originally Posted by Venomrush (Post 373436)

That 565 has 17.5% tax in it that EU customers have to pay for..

UK is 15% at present.

Venomrush

2009-11-12 14:21

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Originally Posted by Fargus (Post 373587)