Re: N9 not coming to the UK on contract - Nokia, you bunch of bell-end's!
 

I can tell you what it is not; an N9 on a subsidised contract.

The N900 was £450 sim-free when it arrived.

My contract was £110 upfront followed by eighteen payments of £20, or £470.

Tell me why i would willingly pay the RRP for a phone in britain when i can get it along with eighteen months of calls, texts and internet for £20 more?

Re: N9 not coming to the UK on contract - Nokia, you bunch of bell-end's!
 

Because of the chance that it'll be locked down?

Re: N9 not coming to the UK on contract - Nokia, you bunch of bell-end's!
 

"
catbus@catbus.stop:~$ ping swipe.nokia.fi
PING swipe.nokia.fi (188.117.37.218) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- swipe.nokia.fi ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3023ms
"

Re: N9 not coming to the UK on contract - Nokia, you bunch of bell-end's!
 

.... it doesn't even talk about N9 not getting to UK.
It's the same news yesterday with the same line.
"here in the UK there are no plans to offer the Nokia N9 at present"

They are essentially recycling yesterdays news.

Re: N9 not coming to the UK on contract - Nokia, you bunch of bell-end's!
 

I was just simply pointing out that it is available in UK but it seems I misread the thread title.. missed the "on contract" bit

Anyway, since you asked - you pay if you really want the device and don't pay if you don't want it. It's really simple as that. Personally I try to avoid contracted phones. I'm actually ready to pay extra to stay away from those.

Re: N9 not coming to the UK on contract - Nokia, you bunch of bell-end's!
 

my T-mobile n900 wasn't, and was advertised as such.

Re: N9 not coming to the UK on contract - Nokia, you bunch of bell-end's!
 

The N900 had no support for it. However, the N9 does. Too much of a risk, if you ask me.

Re: N9 not coming to the UK on contract - Nokia, you bunch of bell-end's!
 

i'm not sure what you are saying.........?

Re: N9 not coming to the UK on contract - Nokia, you bunch of bell-end's!
 

What I am saying is that the N900 had no security system capable of locking the device down. The N9, via Aegis, can be locked down very hard if the carrier wishes.

No developer mode, no develsh, nothing that made the N900 good.

Re: N9 not coming to the UK on contract - Nokia, you bunch of bell-end's!
 

If there's any chance of the N9 taking off in the UK, it needs to be in phone shops, subsidised on contract.

I don't really care that it's available full-price sim-free through the usual suspects. I'll be getting one even if it involves a weekend trip to Finland, because I'm gullible and the N950 is Bloody Great.

What I would like to see is a bit of word of mouth and people wandering into phone shops, trying it, and getting an upgrade/new contract.
I truly believe that it's the first Nokia handset post-iPhone that you can give to the (mythical) Man On The Street and it'll impress them almost immediately.
If it's only available sim-free at £500+, any potential purchase interest in non-fanboys is killed stone dead. Less adoption = Less reason for Nokia and 3rd parties to continue supporting the phone/platform/ecosystem.