in expansys for 183.95 pounds

http://www.expansys.com/p.aspx?i=144770

Add in the rather high £7 P&P and it comes to just under £191.63. Because it's an established and reliable company, this is still the best bet if you don't want to wait for PlayAroundWithDeliveryDates.com

I ordered one from Play on Friday evening for £149. We'll see when it turns up. Having a look around some of the other stores, Nokia was on backorder, and pc world was out of stock as well. Could well be a general supply issue at the minute.

BTW Pc World has dropped it's price to £199 in the last 2 weeks.

Gary

Just continuing to have a browse to see what the chatter is on other sites about Play, and found this link http://www.handtec.co.uk/section.php/159/1/nokia where an 800 is £170 + about £6 next day delivery which is fairly reasonable.

My order is still on 'Order Taken'.... getting ridiculous now...

the status has now changed again on Play to Pre-ordered. due for release on 10/12.

so we'll see. I'm not in any desperate hurry as it will be getting shipped to Santa before I get it.

I can confirm this - same in my account... one week... aye...

Like I said a long time ago in this thread, my bet is that these items will turn-up with OS2008 preinstalled on them (currently N800s come with OS2007). In other words, these are new stock units and aren't the same-old N800s as you can buy elsewhere. This accounts for the price difference -- the new stock units are intended to be retailed around the £150 mark.

This is little comfort for those of us waiting impatiently for our N800s. Bearing in mind that OS2008 is still in beta, and has seemingly been delayed, I also think that we won't be getting the N800s before Xmas. I suspect Nokia is stringing along Play.com with various dates that it isn't entirely confident it will meet.

Other theory: Expansys shows that the N810 will be released on the 10th too. Again, the Play.com N800s are a new stock unit but won't be released until the N810 is.

I would go with that too.

I hate to say I told you so but I said ages ago that Play.com are NOT covered by any UK Consumer law, including distance selling regulations as they are based in Jersey not UK. Therefore, so long as they don't take your money, I think it is unlikely you will get your N800.

I looked on handtec and it still mentions OS2007 not 2008...

As another point I ordered my 770 from Expansys and it arrived not only the next day, but also when I rang up and said there was no foreign adaptor they sent that out by courier without question the same day and it arrived the next day. That is excellent service!