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2010-01-22
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Originally Posted by ZackMorris
Retail price or bulk price? (i.e. is Nokia getting more money or just the retailers?)
I'd say sales are fairly brisk and yes the price has gone up, probably because of demand.
And if Nokia has already increased production, they'd better increase it a hell of a lot more before Easy Debian gets out of testing and starts generating publicity. I've been monitoring my local large retailer, and they haven't had a single shipment that's actually made it to the shelves. For two months.
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2010-01-22
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It seems that here in France, the local version of the N900 is very hard to lay hands on. The Phone House, which had a few month's exclusivity, is fed a pitiful trickle of 30 to 70 units per batch, and is permanently sold out. Mainstream carriers are only just adding it to their catalogues, and the few second-hand devices up for sale on forums are generally snapped up in less than a day, sometimes less than an hour.
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2010-01-22
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Originally Posted by colnago
Or young John Connor could hack into the ATM with one instead of the Atari Portfolio in T2.
Nah...since Hollywood is remaking "every movie ever made" (Karate Kid, Robocop, Red Dawn...WTF?), when they get around to "Hackers" (scene where they were checking out Jolie's laptop), they could throw a 900 in there.
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2010-01-22
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Originally Posted by Reflektorfalke
Almost a "captive" audience. Too many games on the iPhone, not a lot of games on the N900.
Here is another "hint" for the success of the N900:
"In the first week that Angry Birds has been on the Ovi Store, it has been downloaded almost as many times as the iPhone version in six weeks. Given that most N900 users have not even used Ovi Store yet, we are confident that there will be many more downloads in the months to come, and are sure that the N900 version will be very profitable."
http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/...ws.asp?c=17921
Feast over famine, basically. A good game like Angry Birds stands out on either platform, but on the iPhone it's competing against a lot other "ooh, look at me" games and most people don't ever get out of "what's hot" and the first 25.
The numbers, if made public would actually instill faith that Nokia will continue to support Maemo 5 and not let it wither on the vine like Maemo 4.1 (Diablo). They don't take advantage of that, which is still fresh in a lot of people's minds, they're risking something they could avoid.
Just my opinion.
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2010-01-22
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Originally Posted by fpp
The same in the Netherlands. I ordered one today. The seller said that it would take at least two weeks. I found out that they got a big shipment in last week, but had to send them to people who already ordered them in november.
It seems that here in France, the local version of the N900 is very hard to lay hands on.
So it can mean three things:
1. The phone is way more popular than Nokia expected
2. They are having problems sourcing the parts
3. there is a very big pile of n900's they forgot about, sitting in a warehouse.
I hope it's option three, but I guess it's one or two.
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2010-01-22
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Originally Posted by gerbick
I totally agree!!!
Almost a "captive" audience. Too many games on the iPhone, not a lot of games on the N900.
Feast over famine, basically. A good game like Angry Birds stands out on either platform, but on the iPhone it's competing against a lot other "ooh, look at me" games and most people don't ever get out of "what's hot" and the first 25.
The numbers, if made public would actually instill faith that Nokia will continue to support Maemo 5 and not let it wither on the vine like Maemo 4.1 (Diablo). They don't take advantage of that, which is still fresh in a lot of people's minds, they're risking something they could avoid.
Just my opinion.
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2010-01-23
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you can source Arete Research for those figures. it's an investment research boutique based in london. they are very close to nokia, and they gave me those figures.
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2010-01-23
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Another nice indicator was twittered by keesj:
#maemo http://www.flickr.com/cameras/nokia/ see the amount of uploads per device N900 is ranked 8, the N95 1 but usage is going down.
#maemo http://www.flickr.com/cameras/nokia/ see the amount of uploads per device N900 is ranked 8, the N95 1 but usage is going down.
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"In the first week that Angry Birds has been on the Ovi Store, it has been downloaded almost as many times as the iPhone version in six weeks. Given that most N900 users have not even used Ovi Store yet, we are confident that there will be many more downloads in the months to come, and are sure that the N900 version will be very profitable."
http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/...ws.asp?c=17921