I don't understand this.

Nokia is trying to prepare things for the launch today and make it possible to use the distribution channel to handle shipping to developers (who have to pay for their devices, so they're using a site that handles money and arranges shipping).

And you're trying to game the system and order early, and this confuses the system and the people handling it. And Nokia knows it has few devices available -- I got word last week that Nokia was trying to be "conscious not to drive people to country sites before they can actually place an order, to manage customer expectations effectively".

So maybe they only had a few hundred devices manufactured, and maybe that's a ridiculous rumor. I don't know. I know that I and others pressed Nokia to release what they could as soon as they could.

So why is it justified to tell the "big guns" that this is a bust when the only thing you know is that the order system doesn't know how to allow some pre-orders and not others? This is an engineered cockup, not "mismangement of launch supplies."

This is bogus as far as I'm concerned.