The question is not if nokia's lying to amazon, rather is amazon lying to its customers? I think they will play around with the price a bit pretty soon, so they try to get alot of preorders for the current preorder price. How to do that? Easy, tell the impatient customers it will arrive very soon and they will preorder it ASAP, before it could be too late.(Or that's at least what they are thinking ) I'm still not sure whether to preorder it for 498€ at alternate or wait up to 2-3 months after it has been released, where a 2nd pricedrop should already happen.