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go to discover card home and search for their partner amazon is listed and buy it through there 10% cash back wippieee.[/QUOTE]

No coupons required. You need to have a live.com account, paypal (for the cashback). Search for an item from the bing.com page and if you see a "bing cashback" sort of tag, click that and just follow the instructions. That link generally appears at the top itself.

I have a Sony Play Station Card ($100 cashback if you buy worth $400 from sonystyle) from quite some time (dec 2008) but never used it. I didn't want a PS3 or a Sony product but still I applied for the card as people were reporting that, they were getting that $100 cashback inspite of wherever you purchase. I used the same card (for the first time) for my N900 order with amazon. I hope they give me that cashback! Anyone have any idea on this?

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I heard a very interesting story on NPR this week about how people are beginning to ignore voice mail. The interviewee said basically that we would much rather use texting and email over voice, and that it takes about 70 seconds to read a transcript of a 7 minute voice message.

If Nokia gets the word out, this could be as much a game changer for personal phones as the Blackberry was for work phones.

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My dream is a world where everyone has all of the IM protocols on their Internet-enabled mobile devices, and I can just IM with people and never ever have to actually talk to anyone who isn't in the room with me... :)

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I have to agree with that assessment.

On a related note, I'm very impressed with Google Voice's voice-to-text transcription service. 100% accurate for me so far. THAT opens up possibilities...

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Yeah, that one is impressive. Unfortunately it seems to fall on its face for names, though.

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Haha you have Google 411 and other Google Voice users to thank for its accuracy. More samples from all different ethnicities, and regions the more accurate it gets. Kinda scary how it's a self-feeding monster..

Though I think there's still a place for voicemail. For casual business or "hey where you at" there's SMS/IM. But for a heart endearing message I'll always take hearing "I love you" or "I'm sorry" over voice then in SMS/IM. But ideally in person would be the best.

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I'm curious about the total cost of the T-Mobile data plan plus €1, compared to the price of the N900 unlocked and the plan you need.

Personally, all things being equal, I'd prefer to just get a loan for the €1000 than commit to a contract with a carrier, so I'm wondering what the incentive is. I have heard that they make the data plan less expensive if you take a contract that includes the phone (or more expensive if you don't), but I have yet to see a direct comparison. This would be needed in order to compare the costs of the alternative (the interest on a loan, for example).

Care to give us some of your figures?

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I'm confused... why is T-Mobile the only one who can carry it?

(Are you trying to make me cry? I've been dreaming of the day I can drop T-Mobile because of how they treat the SideKick (and their customers)).

Sorry if this has been discussed... I don't even try to keep up with the discussions that run over 100 posts/day.

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From the latest Telekom Shop News flyer, the iPhone 3GS with 16 GB is 1 € with one of those plans:

- Complete L: 119.95 €/month, full phone flat for calls within Germany, data flat reduced to 64 kbit/s after 5 GB transfer

- Complete 240: 69.95 €/month, 240 free minutes for calls within Germany, then 0.29 €/min for calls within Germany, weekend phone flat (to land line and T-Mobile only), data flat reduced to 64 kbit/s after 1 GB transfer

- Complete 1200: 89.95 €/month, 1200 free minutes for calls within Germany, then 0.29 €/min for calls within Germany, weekend phone flat (to land line and T-Mobile only), data flat reduced to 64 kbit/s after 5 GB transfer

They are milking iPhone fanboys like cows. I can remember that the plans for the normal iPhone 3G were not that high, but those are obviously not available anymore.
Oh, and all plans run for at least 24 months.

And remember that the iPhone is not really 1000 €. There is only the T-Mobile locked iPhone available in Germany. What you see on Amazon.de for 1000 € are expensive imports from countries where the law prohibits phone locking.

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Because only T-Mobile uses compatible 3G frequencies in the US. With other carriers in the US you can only get 2G (and 2.5G) connection.

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ITYM trademarked :-)

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Wow... that was amazingly short-sighted on Nokia's part!
I thought it also could use 3G at least on AT&T's network.

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The deals you found seem exceptionally good, if they are still available when the device ships.

With T-mobile they are offering an 18-month contract for £29.36 per month, i.e. a total of £529 over the life of the contract. For that you get the phone, "unlimited mobile web" (which might be speed-throttled if you exceed 1GB per month), 300 SMS per month and 300 minutes per month. Maybe too good to be true.

With Vodafone they are offering a 24-month contract for £29.39 per month, i.e. a total of £706 over the life of the contract. For that you get the phone, "unlimited mobile web" (I'm not sure how unlimited Vodafone's mobile web really is), unlimited SMS and 300 minutes per month.

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I thought making a single phone that works for ~4,9 billion people(Europe, Asia, US T-Mo) compared to ~1 billion people in the Americas(AT&T frequencies) wouldn't count as "amazingly short-sighted".

That said, I'm pretty sure there will be Maemo devices with the 850 band available in the future too.

On topic: Does Amazon ever disclose sales numbers? It'd be interesting to know how many N900's have been pre-ordered, even a rough estimate. With that price in subsidised-with-contract-happy US the first/second place in unlocked is quite great.

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Today (Sep 21)
N900 is #1 on Amazon sales, surpassing the Blackberry Pearl #3 ($143) and any other unlocked phone.
The #2 place unlocked phone is Blackberry Gemini 8520 Unlocked ($329), the #5 place is Nokia 5800 ($299).



http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers...s_ldr_wireless

The price of N900 is: $582.99 (save10% from $649).

In the overall top (unlocked and with service), N900 was #1 and today is #2 after BlackBerry Curve 8900 Phone, Titanium (T-Mobile) which is FREE on T-Mobile (Price: $0.01).

To be #2 in ALL the phones sold by Amazon with and without operator is a good performance, because N900 ($582) is in front of many phones with contract that are FREE.

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>>> On !7-Sep-2009:

>>> N900 on Amazon.com sells unlocked for:

>>> Price: $588 [s]($649)[/s]

>>> http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-N900-Com.../dp/B002OB49SW

>>> Maybe this price made it attractive and a bestseller?

The price went down today (21-Sep-2009) to:

Price: $582.99

Do you think the price will go down even more?

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I would think so, but I have no way to predict or promise that ;)

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Is the N900 a bestseller also in England? Do they publish any statistics on their sites?

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Using your link, N900 is down to 10th, FWIW. Behind numerous Blackberries, the Nokia 5800, Motorola V197 (unlocked, <$50), a Samsung, and a Sony Ericsson (not in that order).

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It also depends on what page you look at. At below link they are 5th in unlocked phones category...

http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-N900-Com...3747508&sr=1-1

#5 in Cell Phones & Service > Accessories > Unlocked Phones

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No more #1 or #2 (#2 after Blackberry Pearl) ....
today N900 is down to #5 ...

And the correct link is this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers...r_cps_1_3_last

Maybe because in the last 3 days the in top 10 threads on this site are things like:
N900 will not allow USB OTG! (327)
and
well respected reviewer "eldar" throwing caution to N900 (78)
and
Closed Source packages in Maemo (102)

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Just curious why is this the wrong or not correct? I called Amazon and they told me your link is not as correct as mine....:D

So if you are looknig for the real link, then here it is
http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-N900-Com...3747508&sr=1-1

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Your link is not as good because it shows N900 on position #4 as opposed with the claim it is #5.

Anyways, 2 phones under $150, and another Blackberry (Gemini) at $320 topped N900 which is on sale for $582.

But it was #1 few days ago..., maybe it will be again #1 tomorrow, but don't throw your incorrect link again :D