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Originally Posted by Jedibeeftrix View Post
i understand the points you and Jaylst are making, and i do recognise them, but, i just don't accept that nokia is right to be charging absolute top-flight prices for something that has mid-range specs these days.

yes, i will buy one because i am stupid enough not to care, but i think it will unduly hurt the revenue potential as they will lose more from deterred customers than they will gain from higher margins.

and if they really do have to charge £500 for an N9 to achieve a sensible margin of profitability then they are doing something very wrong!

while UK prices are not yet known the 16GB version seems to be sitting around the £500 mark, with mobilefun.co.uk sticking a £520 price tag on it.

a htc sensation from the same people currently lists at £400:

http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/sim-free-...ion-p29011.htm

a htc titan from mobilefun lists at £480:

http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/sim-free-...tan-p31765.htm

if the 16GB model actually ends up with a price tag around £400 then that will be sensible, however, if it really does end up north of £500 then nokia really did need to ditch meego/harmattan because it would appear quite obvious that they cannot produce high-end smartphones at a competitive price using that platform!

that fact that you and I will buy it regardless of the price is not the point, the point is that something is deeply deeply wrong if nokia has to charge over the odds for hardware that is underwhelming.
The pricing of the N9 is often debated here, and I take the opportunity of this post to disagree about the general ranting about the price (nothing personal against you, Jedibeeftrix )...

To my opinion, the N9 is not ridiculously overpriced when we consider all of the hardware. I mean, including the industrial design.

I don't care to have a graphics chip that is a few months old, a processor that has a mere single core and runs at only 1GHz, as long as this combination still allows the SW to run smoothly, also when multitasking heavily. And in ths department, I think that we have a winner here.

But I do care that I will have a gorgeous piece of hardware that will not fall in pieces or look ugly after 6 months.

The polycarbonate unibody construction surrounding tightly the curved gorilla glass, that is the playground of an intuitive user interface, are for me solid arguments to buy the phone. Nearly as much as the choice of the operating system running underneath the surface. I'm even glad not to have a removable battery and no SD card slot, as this allows even less dust to enter the phone and reduces the risk of mechanical failure...

I'm not a Nokia devotee* (my first and only Nokia until now was the N900), but I just have a profound respect and admiration of what Marko Ahtisaari and his team are achieving.

I'm looking forward to see what's next...

edit: (*) no, I'm not a fan of the brand with a fruit either, and I don't trust green robots that much...

Last edited by 0x4e84; 2011-10-09 at 23:22.
 

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