N800 On Street availability
 

I went into Frys today to pick up a N800. Apparently they no longer sell them (they had 1 770 for $299). They claimed to have sold all the N800 on clearance.

Given that CompUSA has closed all stores in the Atlanta area.

Is their anywhere on the Street I can still get a N800. I never like buying from the internet for that sort off money (return etc if it is broken is to much of a pain)

I am prolly going to have to go Amazon.com

But for curiosity do you folks think the lack of street availability is going to damage take up of the product.

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walmart, you can buy on-line and return at the store if there is a problem. they don't sell them in the stores though but do ship to many stores for free when you buy a product online. http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...uct_id=5673671

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Wonderful Thanks.

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Note that returns with Amazon are very easy and free, for defective units at least. I bought an N800 through them, and it had a bad screen (useless quality control from Nokia... :(). Filled in a web form and they sent UPS to pick it up. No cost to me.

You still have to wait for shipping, obviously, so the store has that benefit. I don't like supporting the evil Walmart, but then again, where is there that's truly non-evil?

I haven't bought a replacement yet. Still trying to work out if I can justify it to myself and the wife.

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This is my first post here because I am just getting into this n800 thing and don't know too much about these internet tablets except for where to get them.

You just can't buy it on the street. I tried for a whole month researching it. You can buy them from local retail stores like Circuit City, Best Buy, Walmart but you have to order them online and it will ship to either the store or you home. So whats the point?

I am getting mine from Buy.com and I wish I hadn't. Its going to take a week and I read some of the negative reviews after I bought it.

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Negative reviews about Buy.com of course. There is no such this as a "negative review for the n800". Everyone knows that silly.

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Well Walt Mossberg didn't like it much, but I chewed him out for that.

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Fry's in Houston Texas has a few of them in clereance ill be more than glad to help out others...

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Yeah its the wait though. I don't like plonking down $400 and having to wait for my toy. Then its broken and I have to do it all again. Usually anything above 100 I get local.

Amazon = One Click so nope nothing trully non evil. Heck we cant even trust the googles of this world.

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Thanks folks. Ill prolly go the walmart route. $358 + tax no shipping if I collect from the store. as opposed to no tax a little more for shipping but RMA process if I need to return.

Again thanks for all the info. Now to play with building a dev environment on my PC (Linux of course)

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Nokia's retail presence in the US is rather poor. They should really be opening stores of their own left and right. I stopped by the "Nokia Experience Center" north of Seattle at the Alderwood Mall which was indeed a really neat experience. I got to play with a bunch of very high end cell phones and chat about them with Brian, who was exceedingly well informed. I was totally sold on the N95 at that point, but you can't actually buy anything at a "Nokia Experience Center." Brian suggested Wallmart or Nokia USA's online store.

I went home and purchased a N95 through Amazon via Tigerdirect for $650. I couldn't bring myself to purchase something through Wallmart, even though it was a whole $2 cheaper. I am exceedingly happy with my N95, but I would have been much happier if I had been able to purchase mine a week earlier at a local retailer. Knowing where the buck stops (and they know where it stops too) is the ultimate reason to use a local retailer.

To my knowledge, the only two places in the US where you can walk in off the street and buy a N800 or any other random piece of Nokiage are their two flagship stores in New York and Chicago.

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Outside of the US, I don't think there is anyone selling the N800 at retail in bricks & mortar. You guys had it good for a while! :)

The only way to obtain the N800 in the UK is via online retailers (Amazon, Expansys, Nokia UK) - there is zero high street presence. Not good. :(

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Makes me ashamed to be a britt. Joking of course but it is sorta nice to know we aint entirely perfect back home.

Just to confirm I am an expat been in the US for 7 years. Planning to go home in 3 or so.

But back on subject. I think while Nokia continues to avoid a store presence this device will remain in the hands of geeks and tinkerers. An unfortunatly small market.

If we had access to Exchange Server and Office apps (read a pocket OO.o) we might get some of the execs but it will never be a mainstream every body wants one device without the ability to see it in bricks and morter stores.

And I hate to say it but how much effort is Nokia going to invest in something they see as a toy for a small crowd of geeks.

My guess only while they see input from the OOS community developing apps/UI that may help them in other mainstream devices.

I personally would love Pocket Evolution and Pocket OO.o. And it would give the Linux Handheld OS a huge boost. Even if this device is not designed to compete in that market.

Ok all that for 2c I think I have over provided my services ;o)

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They are available in PC World. It is the first time I knew there was such a thing when I saw it in there.

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In the UK, besides PC World, there are in Dixons Tax Free. And I've seen them in Selfridges, Oxford St.

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In Singapore they're selling the N800 at Nokia retail shops\booths, and some mobile phone shops also carry them. MSRP is S$630 (US$420), street price is around S$580 (US$385) before bargaining ;)

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circuitcity seem to have them, you might want to ask the store to reserve stock.
I am wondering if they are keeping stock low in case of an early release of the wimax version (says me a bit hopefully!)

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Circuitcity's website actually says "not available in stores"...I've been trying to find one too