I'm wondering how the release will be like. I'd almost bet things would be like with the N900 release: No specific dates other than "Sometimes around Qx 2010", hotliners who give out different informations everytime you call and stores who know nothing at all. Wish Nokia would finally manage to pin down international release dates instead of all around random shipping of new devices.

Also most retailers got the N900 really late, local Nokia shops recieved their first N900s sometime in january this year. The online hardware shop where I order most of my stuff couldn't tell me last year when they would get their first charge: "November maybe... december, but it might be as late until january. Sorry we can't tell, Nokia doesn't get any information out." and that was at a time where you could almost get it on Nokias online store. That is not how a good release looks like and I can only hope for Nokia that the N8's release will look better.