It is a problem when 1) Your paying for a 3G connection you can't use 2) You were expecting the n900 to arrive sometime late October to Mid November and were planning on giving your current phone to your mother so she could have a cell phone while she was on her trip in Vietnam. The way it is now (if Newegg does even get it on the 30th) it's cutting it very close for me. If it doesn't arrive soon after the 30th I'll be going cell phone less (I recently switched from Sprint to TMobile so I don't have any other GMS phones) for a month. And given how often I commute around for graduate school, my former campus, and work, not having a cell phone to reach people is going be annoying.