Re: Buying N810 in Canada?
 

"Thank you for e-mailing the Nokia Care Contact Centre.

The pricing on www.nokia.ca is competitive to the pricing of other retailers in Canada. Pricing may also vary between retailers.

Nokia is glad to hear that you were able to locate a Nokia N810 Internet Tablet at a more affordable price."

... do companies realize fill-in-the-blank form emails are infuriating? A $125 dollar discrepancy is *not* competitive pricing.

Sarah: I got my sister a Power Monkey, which is about half the size of a RedBull can (and a little smaller in diameter). While I don't know if it will charge the battery completely, after the PM charges via wall plug it'll keep any of her mobile devices going. Right now she's using it on her cell phone and N800 and it doesn't take up a lot of space.

My N810 rarely leaves the house, or a wall socket's within reach so I'm aces.

Re: Buying N810 in Canada?
 

While the tablets are certainly not as popular around here as say, an Ipod, I think calling them less than a rare sight in Toronto is a bit of lunacy; I can tell you right now the reason that TigerDirect.ca ran out of N800's back in the late spring was I showed mine to a buddy who worked at Cogeco down in Burlington, and that day 8 of his co-workers ordered them as well. Now they're certainly not mainstream yet, but the fact that you can walk into any tiger direct store in the area and they've usually got an N810 on display for you to play around with says a lot compared to the old 770 days. The move to OS 2008 along with the pricing phases for the tablets certainly had a large impact on acceptance levels for them around here... And with Tiger putting the N810s out at $299 Cdn it looks like another wave of adoptions might be starting up soon.

(And for the record, there might not be a brick and mortar store in the GTA selling tablet specific equipment... but if my online store is located in the GTA and specializes in unique tablet products such as OTG adapters, speaky-mikey adapters, etc doesn't that count?? ;-) )

-Rob

Re: Buying N810 in Canada?
 

How does one access such a magical place? ;) And, does/can your online store carry Boxwave stuff?

Re: Buying N810 in Canada?
 

Hedgecore you wouldn't believe the canned responses I got when I quested Nokia Canada about buying a n810 before they reopened this webstore.

They told me things like if I wanted to buy a cell phone I should contact Bell Mobility.

I must have filled out 20 or so of their "Customer Service Satisfaction" surveys. Everyone I told them the copy and paste attitude they have to customer support is horrible.

Re: Buying N810 in Canada?
 

Sorry should have included the link!
http://www.electronicproductonline.c...hp?cPath=35_67

I actually just started talking to Boxwave yesterday about bringing in some screen protectors, though I'm waiting to hear back as the pricing they offer resellers doesn't seem to be very competitive compared to what they offer end users... (I'm not going to bring in a whole batch of them just to find that nobody wants to take them since they're not any cheaper than going to boxwave direct)

Re: Buying N810 in Canada?
 

Rob,

Oh, I know they're selling... but what I meant is I've rarely seen them in the wild. Before I started working from home I'd seen two tablets on the subway and a 770 being used as an mp3 player by someone walking down the street... otherwise my sister has an N800 and a guy at work got a 770. Me thinks they live in peoples' homes more often than naught up here because of the ridiculous tethered data fees we enjoy. Seriously, if they capped at 6GB for iPhones at 30 bucks, why not give me tethered data at the same rate?

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I believe that the 6GB for $30/mo plan can be used for tethering, along with some of the other new plans they came out with recently. Check out Howard Forums.

Eg:
http://www.howardforums.com/showpost...&postcount=755

That particular plan requires a 3 year lock-in though.

Rogers have their 'unlimited on-device browsing' plans that can't be used for tethering, and for a short while, those were the only plans they talked about. They've introduced more with the introduction of the iphone.

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I signed up for this plan and I am using it for tethering over bluetooth with my Nokia phone. It works quite well.

On the other hand, it is only in the last couple of months that Rogers has offered data plans that aren't ridiculous. I guess this has resulted in tons of new usage - so the speed and reliability of their 3G network has gone way down.

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I'm now waiting for our provincial CDMA provider (MTS) to catch up on pricing. Right now they charge $20 for 2mb/mo(yes, that's mb, *NOT* gb). :mad: