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Re: Where is Nokia - no announcement no product - still in hibernation

Seriously though, has there been an official "this is the day" announcement for availability? If not, it might suggest they have not boxed any units for shipment yet. How hard would it be to review status and give a date?

Perhaps it is still work in progress and that is why no firm date and still "guesstimates".

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Originally Posted by Rushmore (Post 361048)

Seriously though, has there been an official "this is the day" announcement for availability? If not, it might suggest they have not boxed any units for shipment yet.

Boxing typically occurs the day of shipping, which is just a few days prior to sale availability.

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Originally Posted by flux41 (Post 360911)

I wonder if Nokia is timing the release appropriately. Think about it; if they released the n900 when they were suppose to, the hype over the Droid could have overpowered the promotion for the n900 resulting in Nokia taking a serious hit in potential target markets. By waiting a few more weeks, it gives Nokia some more time to work on the product and allows for the hype and excitement about Droid to fall back to earth. If I had to make the call, I would rather make the people who preordered (like me) a little pissed than to release at the wrong time and get run over by the hype of a competing product.

The only problem with your argument is that if they had released the N900 in mid-October when they originally were supposed to, it would have hit the streets a month before the Droid became available. As it stands, the N900 announcement has been forgotten in the wake of the Droid announcement and the unavailability of the N900. The actual shipment of the N900 will come just as people are starting to blog about their new Droids (assuming they ship on time in early November).

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Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 360985)

Why - do I get the feeling - frank.wagner - is

actually

william.shatner?

The truth - remains - the longest. :rolleyes:

Re: Where is Nokia - no announcement no product - still in hibernation

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Originally Posted by allnameswereout (Post 361381)

The comma is used in many contexts and languages, principally for separating things.

Just in case this works, best be prepared : you should keep similar memos handy for, say, sentences starting with a capital letter and ending with a full stop :-)

Re: Where is Nokia - no announcement no product - still in hibernation

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Re: Where is Nokia - no announcement no product - still in hibernation

unfortunately - and it will be even less -
IPAD is available - Dell 5" with Android and iPhone 4 will be available soon - Nokia probably still sleeping

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28.05.2010 10:01
Nokia top model N900 sales below 100,000-Gartner

By Tarmo Virki, European Technology Correspondent

LONDON, May 28 (Reuters) - Nokia sold less than 100,000 top-of-the-range N900 smartphones in its first five months on the market, researcher Gartner said, indicating it has yet to mount a serious challenge to the iPhone and Blackberry.

The chunky computer-like handset -- with slide-out keyboard and a touch screen -- has found support among hard-core technology specialists but failed to attract a wider audience.

A spokesman for Nokia, the world's top cellphone maker, declined to comment on the sales number, saying the company was pleased with sales, but an executive was more bullish.

'Sales have substantially exceeded expectations,' Alberto Torres, head of Nokia's solutions business, told the Open Mobile Summit trade conference in London this week.

Nokia has been unable to mount a serious challenge to Apple three years after the iPhone's launch. Its last hit smartphone model, the N95, was unveiled in 2006.

The sales of less than 100,000 N900s compares with sales of 8.75 million iPhones in January-March alone.

The N900, which went on sale last November, is Nokia's first phone running the Linux Maemo operating system, which analysts see as a key for Nokia to regain ground in the coming years.

In February this year Nokia unveiled a plan to merge Maemo with Intel's Moblin operating system.

Nokia sold 50,000 N900s in the last quarter of 2009, and quarterly sales fell in January-March, Gartner statistics showed. Gartner does not track phone sales per model, but as the N900 is the only phone using Maemo, the statistics for operating systems show sales for the model.

Apple - sells over 1 Mio. iPads in one week :) - "time to market and a very good customer focus" :):)

Re: Where is Nokia - no announcement no product - still in hibernation

- It was 100 000 in first five weeks
- N900 has been quite big hit for Nokia
- It was meant to be used by only early adopters
- Sadly they marketed it quite aggressively in some places for example in UK
- Looks like early majority has also bought it and that basically is reason why we are seeing quite a mount of noise here :|

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Originally Posted by slender (Post 690086)

when I was tracking prices on ebay it was clear there was a lot of demand for the n900 as prices weren't much lower than the off-contract new pricing. It was clear qt a few people bought them and were overwhelmed.

I speculate Nokia's stance that it was a very successful product is a bit of a left-handed complement in that they didn't want to admit how important it was as a potential replacement for S60. I suspect the S60 political faction inside Nokia were told to shape up and come out with something new and interesting or they'd be replaced with maemo!

Whilst speculating, I think that if Nokia were really *really* adamant they were betting everything on maemo we'd have seen a whole menagerie of devices like there are for S60. Either the S60 product group did manage to shape up, or they judge maemo/meego to be not ready for prime time (yet), and hopefully have a bunch of devices ready for launch when they deem it ready. We know from the n900 launch that Nokia don't release products that are only half baked, they need to be 97%+ baked!!