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att 2009-11-14 00:01
Re: N900 shipping delayed
 
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Originally Posted by sharper (Post 375548)
What do you think companies have logistics and operations departments for? They plan all this out. Do you honestly think Nokia throws their output onto the boat, sets it off over the horizon and then says "Well gee I hope they get somewhere soon so we can actually make money selling them"?
We don't even know for sure that it is Nokia that is managing the shipping from Korea to the distributors.

In many cases the distributors buy the products directly from the factories. It maybe up to the distributor how they get the products to its own warehouses.

dccupp 2009-11-14 00:04
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Originally Posted by jaark (Post 375561)
How would you feel if you saw your local shop being delivered a big box marked 'Nokia N900' and them refusing to sell you one?
Many people would be complaining that their local shop has stock but won't sell.
Happens all the time. Sharp eyed people take pictures and it ends up on Engadget or something. Sometimes the retailer slips up and has the item available for purchase before the official launch date, sometimes it's pictures of stock before it's on the shelves taken by employees. A recent example is the Palm Pixie showed up in display cases in Walmart before official launch but it was not yet entered in the system and thus could not yet be purchased.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/p...le-of-walmart/

att 2009-11-14 00:06
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Originally Posted by sharper (Post 375572)
Nokia's lack of worldwide warranty is just another layer of frustration on top of everything else. If you do buy your phone in the US (or from the US via ebay) it has to be sent back there for repair - even if your country has a repair service for it.

The other manufacturers do international warranty.
This might be one of the reasons why N900 costs more in EU than in USA.

yerjoshy 2009-11-14 01:16
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Hey guys i called yesterday to the nokia online store in USA and they told me that the Nokia N900 is now in the store!!!! But they can´t ship the device because the Nokia BH-703 Bluetooth headset
of the promotion with the pre-order is not compatible with the
N900!!!! what´s wrong with you Nokia? why you do this things in the North American market???? is for things like this that Nokia Is not The Lider in USA and Nokia need to do better efforts to suplie the needs of the people of the USA´s market! What do you think about it?????

PhilE 2009-11-14 01:31
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Uh-oh...just went to the MPD web site to see if there was any change in the 'exclusive availability from mid november' statement. Clicking on the N900 now redirects to www.nokiaretail.co.uk which states 'delivery during late november'

:(

hypnotik 2009-11-14 01:54
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Originally Posted by yerjoshy (Post 375628)
Hey guys i called yesterday to the nokia online store in USA and they told me that the Nokia N900 is now in the store!!!! But they can´t ship the device because the Nokia BH-703 Bluetooth headset
of the promotion with the pre-order is not compatible with the
N900!!!! what´s wrong with you Nokia? why you do this things in the North American market???? is for things like this that Nokia Is not The Lider in USA and Nokia need to do better efforts to suplie the needs of the people of the USA´s market! What do you think about it?????
Sounds like bs to me. I ordered the phone on Wednesday without said Bluetooth promotion. I wonder what will happen.

Laughing Man 2009-11-14 01:55
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Originally Posted by RevdKathy (Post 375480)
Well the delay was... a delay. No, we weren't told exactly what caused it. We were told that it was in response to feedback from the 300 loan devices. I've said before that's as much as a manufacturer dare say - if they gave details of the problem it would stoke up rumours of some non-existent problem that will be fixed by release anyway.

As for information since the devices left the factory... that was Tuesday - it's only Friday now! It may feel like a century or two since Peter's announcement, but it's only three days. When will devices arrive at retailers? Well, that actually does depend on things like tides, Somali pirates, shipping companies, road haulage, and a range of things not quite under control. If you wanted exact details, Nokia should probably have waited till all the devices were delivered safely to retailers and then said 'go'!

The imformation about who gets priority and stuff like that seems like a more reasonable grumble, but only if you want to be One Of The First. I want the device before my current phone dies, but actually, I'm not that interested in being The First to be able to come in here and dance about it. If I'm a week behind the rest of you, well, so be it. I want it because it's a good device, not so I can be the first to have a new shiney toy.

Those places where there's been a serious delay (such as Sweden) have had a formal announcement. Other delays are just rumours.
No no, I don't mean when the devices arrive. It's pointless to try to figure that out based on how many variables one has to take into account as you pointed out. I meant more as "which retailer is getting the shipments first". And things like if the exclusivity thing is true or not. It may not matter to you when you get the device, and normally it wouldn't bother me.

I was planning on waiting till next year originally but I decided that my life was to hectic with my commuting to 3-4 different places a week and not having fast access to my email until I got home or to my sister's dorm to check email. It's hard to coordinate meetings and stay up to date when your only checking email the 30 minutes before you go to bed because you have to get up at 5 AM for work just to sit in a two hour commute to work. =P And likewise to get home (ah the joys of being a Washingtonian). Though I'm happy simply for the fact I have a job that looks like it may convert me into a full time employee after I graduate with my Masters degree. And they offer a back to school program after you work with them for a while (provided you stay with them for X amount of years) so I can go back to get my PhD after I pay off my student loans.

Even with that I was still fine for waiting on the n900 (provided that it was arriving this year since if I'm paying more then 2 months of 3G access and not being able to use it then...) but the more pressing issue is that my mom is leaving for a trip to Vietnam (she hasn't been there since her family left Vietnam on a raft.. literally following the year after the Vietnam War ended) and I bought the TMobile phone I did because I can get TMobile to unlock it so she can use it while in Vietnam. I checked the bands and everything to ensure that the current phone I bought works over there. II was hoping the n900 would arrive before she left in December so I would have a phone since that's the only thing that's keeping me coordinated with calling my gf or dad for a ride when the public transportation stops (again the joys of living in an area where public transportation only serves you during rush hour), or my sister to come down and let me into the dorm. That's why things like this are irritating me and I wish Nokia would communicate more about it.

(I'm usually a pretty mellow guy).

Shaichico 2009-11-14 03:09
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Whose willing to bet the Scandinavia e.g. Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden will get it first!!!

Guffaw 2009-11-14 04:00
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Originally Posted by Shaichico (Post 375709)
Whose willing to bet the Scandinavia e.g. Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden will get it first!!!
Would be nice. My bet is 22/11 for Scandinavia.

att 2009-11-14 11:06
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Originally Posted by Shaichico (Post 375709)
Whose willing to bet the Scandinavia e.g. Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden will get it first!!!
I'm not so sure about Finland because there is possibility of Finnair's pilot strike. It could badly mess up the air traffic in Finland.

Assumming that N900s have not already arrived in Finland and that they are transported by planes.

allmine1976 2009-11-14 11:28
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Originally Posted by Shaichico (Post 375709)
Whose willing to bet the Scandinavia e.g. Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden will get it first!!!
Sweden i doubt .

juahan 2009-11-14 11:41
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Originally Posted by att (Post 375863)
I'm not so sure about Finland because there is possibility of Finnair's pilot strike. It could badly mess up the air traffic in Finland.

Assumming that N900s have not already arrived in Finland and that they are transported by planes.
I'm pretty sure that the phones wouldn't have been transported by Finnair cargo anyway and the other companies (the real cargo companies for example) still fly in and out normally.

zico 2009-11-14 14:25
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interesting..

http://www.nokiaport.de/forum/thread.php?threadid=5379

vinc17 2009-11-14 14:47
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Originally Posted by sharper (Post 375492)
It's fairly simple.

"Our product has been released and will be available to buy in the UK on November 25th, France November 27th, Poland November 30th, India December 15th" and so on.
expansys.fr says that the expected date is Saturday 28 November, so that in practice it won't be before Monday 30 November.

toratoko 2009-11-14 15:08
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It is complete bs, I called the flagship store to verify and they DO NOT have the device in stock.

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Originally Posted by hypnotik (Post 375658)
Sounds like bs to me. I ordered the phone on Wednesday without said Bluetooth promotion. I wonder what will happen.

nuknuk 2009-11-14 15:10
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Originally Posted by mklass (Post 375289)
:D:D:D

Cant wait for tomorrow to go an have a lilttle mess around with it and get a feel for the device :D
Did you go to Manchester today.:D

Shaichico 2009-11-14 17:16
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Originally Posted by Guffaw (Post 375731)
Would be nice. My bet is 22/11 for Scandinavia.
Somehow... I have a feeling it will touchdown in Scandinavia first like you said on this date and start shipping to people on week 49 onwards. But I can always be hopeful. We were the only ones e.g. Scandics /Sweden that was given a date and not by Nokia head honcho but from Nokia Sweden Klas Ström. And Considering how Swedish culture and how we/they run their business I have no reason to loose faith. Being an expat here and understanding the culture I came to the conclusion that everything just works... So taking my experience into consideration I put my faith into the Swedish system. I could be mistaken but only time will tell!!!

mklass 2009-11-14 17:25
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Originally Posted by nuknuk (Post 376031)
Did you go to Manchester today.:D
Yes indeed I did...An It made me want mine even more I didnt really have chance to play with the device much as the adviser was watchin me like a hawk..

All I can say is its AMAZING :D :D

It was a bit slow when he first switched it on but after that it was quick I opened around 6 or 7 applications to test for the speed an it was working as if I didnt even have any apps open.

I seriously cant wait to get mine !

Did you go?

suicideking 2009-11-14 17:34
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I have talked to a Nokia sale repe. via online. He told me that they have started shipping the N900 already in the "States". He assure me that if I order it now it would be ship to me as early as next week,

Viny 2009-11-14 17:38
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Nokia reps dont know a thing xD when it comes down to N900.. if i were you id wait till you see real prduction before ordering it.

Gadgety 2009-11-14 17:42
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Originally Posted by sirflyalot (Post 369457)
The undercurrent feeling that Nokia did not build enough N900s for the demand seems strange to me. I remember talking to Nokia in 2003 about minimum number of units for a "run" of a model. They were talking minimum of 1 million or it's not worth their time. Of course, the N770/800/810 had to have been quite small in number. For the amount of marketing they have been producing for this model, I would think they would have built plenty to satisfy the demand.
Well, 1.000.000 units as a minimum order sounds promising. I want this phone to be a huge success to draw a maxmimum amount of skillful programmers to the device to create fantastic future apps. And could you imagine if just 10% of those new buyers sign up here?!

ekiFinn 2009-11-14 17:54
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Originally Posted by suicideking (Post 376216)
I have talked to a Nokia sale repe. via online. He told me that they have started shipping the N900 already in the "States". He assure me that if I order it now it would be ship to me as early as next week,
That's bs. I ordered mine 4.9, where the **** is my n900?

nuknuk 2009-11-14 19:02
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Originally Posted by mklass (Post 376205)
Yes indeed I did...An It made me want mine even more I didnt really have chance to play with the device much as the adviser was watchin me like a hawk..

All I can say is its AMAZING :D :D

It was a bit slow when he first switched it on but after that it was quick I opened around 6 or 7 applications to test for the speed an it was working as if I didnt even have any apps open.

I seriously cant wait to get mine !

Did you go?
No i could not make it but might pop over there tommorow sounds like fun :D

ewagner 2009-11-15 05:52
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Nokia USA is full of crap. they told me today that they started shipping on last Tuesday to people that pre-ordered in setpember. I think we would have heard and seen proof of this already on here if it were true.

dinis_2003 2009-11-15 06:51
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Maybe those people who get their phones, just too busy playing with their n900, and they can not come here and share their happiness with us.

dinis_2003 2009-11-15 06:52
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Maybe they are not in this world anymore? They in the world of n900! :)))

kingofkingz24 2009-11-15 08:05
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i think we are getting are phones shipped on monday, you can no longer preorder on the amazon site.

toshinden5 2009-11-15 08:23
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Originally Posted by kingofkingz24 (Post 376766)
i think we are getting are phones shipped on monday, you can no longer preorder on the amazon site.
USA site ?

Sreenivas 2009-11-15 09:19
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I can still see the preorder option in Amazon - USA!!!

tehsu 2009-11-15 09:36
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I hate nokia atleast if they are going to announce shipping they should follow up with any information instead of just leading us on, I understand it takes time to get from the factory to distributor to warehouse and all the things that take getting from A to B but it's not that hard to update the website and providing information. I have yet to see anyone confirm shipment from NokiaUSA, but NokiaUSA say they started shipping on Tuesday.

draco.bdn 2009-11-15 09:52
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All Nokia pages are kinda weird for the last two days.
If you visit the Nokia EU page you'll see the press release and after that you'll have some messed up pages.
German site: At phones section you have "It is avaible" - page later it is preorder - same on UK, US and the other pages - maybe Nokia is ready to ship the N900 but world is not?

range 2009-11-15 10:12
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Originally Posted by tehsu (Post 376808)
I hate nokia atleast if they are going to announce shipping they should follow up with any information instead of just leading us on, I understand it takes time to get from the factory to distributor to warehouse and all the things that take getting from A to B but it's not that hard to update the website and providing information. I have yet to see anyone confirm shipment from NokiaUSA, but NokiaUSA say they started shipping on Tuesday.
If you take 2 seconds to think over that last sentence from you: Nokia started shipping from the factory on Tuesday, so how would Nokia USA be able to ship to people on the same day?

draco.bdn 2009-11-15 10:21
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Originally Posted by range (Post 376822)
If you take 2 seconds to think over that last sentence from you: Nokia started shipping from the factory on Tuesday, so how would Nokia USA be able to ship to people on the same day?
They used super-fast-flying korean supermen. :rolleyes:

It's too funny to see men who maybe running a company or have a familiy they need to take care of, behave like childrens.

Remembers me at the time the 9500 was released.

tehsu 2009-11-15 10:31
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Originally Posted by range (Post 376822)
If you take 2 seconds to think over that last sentence from you: Nokia started shipping from the factory on Tuesday, so how would Nokia USA be able to ship to people on the same day?
Exactly they started shipping from factory, so why is NokiaUSA stating that they started shipping to customers, and yet no one has been charged nor has received any tracking information.

The_Solutor 2009-11-15 10:37
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Originally Posted by range (Post 376822)
If you take 2 seconds to think over that last sentence from you: Nokia started shipping from the factory on Tuesday, so how would Nokia USA be able to ship to people on the same day?


In a normal world when a company, that sells to end user, speaks about "shipping", refers to shipping to end user and to sales point, and not about a plane (or a boat) in korea.

I'm afraid that next week we learn that nokia has a plant on the pluto planet and the n900s are built in that plant, and we have to be patient a bit more...:)

sharper 2009-11-15 11:45
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Originally Posted by range (Post 376822)
If you take 2 seconds to think over that last sentence from you: Nokia started shipping from the factory on Tuesday, so how would Nokia USA be able to ship to people on the same day?
Maybe because people can't believe an organisation of Nokia's size and experience would announce something as banal as when their products are shipping from a factory in Korea yet give exactly zero information about when people can expect to see it at retail :)

range 2009-11-15 13:27
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Originally Posted by tehsu (Post 376837)
Exactly they started shipping from factory, so why is NokiaUSA stating that they started shipping to customers, and yet no one has been charged nor has received any tracking information.
That was more a hint for you to think about who to believe and who not to believe.

I'd chose Nokia USA in this case.

Aphex 2009-11-15 13:36
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I'm looking so forward to have this device in my hands. :)

Anwarboy11 2009-11-15 13:53
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http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=34526
check my thread out on emu's whilst we're all waiting for tomorrow to get our n900's!

toratoko 2009-11-15 14:05
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First we hassle for Nokia to give us information, then when they let us know that the product is released and on its way to the public, we still want more. Seriously, they didn't have to announce its release until their factories and flagship stores had the item. Nokia was doing all of us a favor by letting us know that they fixed the bugs they were concerned about and there was no more reason for a delay. Does anyone read the official releases anymore? Does anyone realize that they are not a major stockholder for Nokia? Get over yourselves people, you are NOT the center of the world to them, nor to any other corporation for that matter.


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