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I think the Dell calls are only going to people who had a mismatch between their billing address and shipping address. On top of that, I had just moved, so there was some confusion apparently about the billing address. I doubt you are being left out if you haven't been called.
 
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Originally Posted by Rushmore View Post
It IS gone...... This might not be good. We should not be surprised if we get cancellation notices. Not a good sign when Dell pulls a new product from web sales. I see two probable scenarios opposed to us getting our "good deals".

1. They cancel the order
2. They let the orders hang until we cancel ourselves.

They can claim they decided not to carry the N900- at least until this situation dies down.

Dell plays BOTH of these games. They are losing too much money already. If they accepted 1,000 preorders, counting free shipping, they are eating about $30,000. Will probably not happen. Dell would rather stop a delivery of product and let the "bad orders" purge themselves.

Might want to keep Newegg N900 link handy
OUCH!!! I have acquired many deals from Dell, but I was never this involved... I hope you are wrong... No offense buddy... lol
 
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Originally Posted by bocaJ View Post
I think the Dell calls are only going to people who had a mismatch between their billing address and shipping address. On top of that, I had just moved, so there was some confusion apparently about the billing address. I doubt you are being left out if you haven't been called.

Pulling the product from their web site may be an issue for all of us that got "the deal".

I used to work for the company that makes their printers and I was involved with their marketing group for a while (supply and web channel planning).

I unfortunately know how they operate, but will be happy if completely and utterly wrong here

Now, where is that Newegg link....
 
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Originally Posted by bocaJ View Post
I think the Dell calls are only going to people who had a mismatch between their billing address and shipping address. On top of that, I had just moved, so there was some confusion apparently about the billing address. I doubt you are being left out if you haven't been called.
That's what I like to hear. False/vague hope is much better than the blatant awful truth at this point...
 
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Originally Posted by bkmgtpe3 View Post
They haven't called me yet either... Also, N900 is no where to be seen on Dell's website anymore... Hmm...
I think they're trying to update the description of the phone cuz when I ordered yesterday, I noticed that the frequency doesn't include 1700 and it also says that it has MMS. Just like what happened with Amazon when they first posted the phone.
 
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Originally Posted by SubCore View Post
from the slashgear review:

"Those gestures – and that decent lick of speed – is shared by the browser, aided by the fact that HTC have continued to shun Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer Mobile (which we found struggled to render pages correctly) and instead make Opera Mobile the default."

considering that opera mobile uses opera's server to cache images and prepare websites, it's actually a quite pathetic result for the HD2
That is Opera Mini, Opera Mobile is just a normal browser no proxying or pre-rendered pages by default.

Originally Posted by w00t View Post
*headdesk*

what part of "Nokia UK are saying shipping starts on the 9th, consistently, for the past 3 weeks" have you missed?
What part of "The devices will not magically appear, Nokia will issue an official press release as soon as they ship." did YOU not understand? Nokia will tell us when they ship to the resellers, as that has not happened how can those resellers possibly know when THEY are shipping to the individual shops?

Originally Posted by dreadnought View Post
I thought they were the same thing. Don't MPD run Nokia retail? How is this different from Nokia UK? I'm pretty sure that they claimed somewhere on their website that they would be the first to get N900s in the country and to dispatch (I can't damn well find the webpage, but they definitely said it).
Nokia UK is direct I believe, mail order only. Nokia stores are Retail, MPD are only saying they will be the first "retail" stores to get the N900. Meaning they will get it before Carphone Warhouse, Phones4U, etc but not necessarily before Nokia themselves.
 

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Originally Posted by Alex Atkin UK View Post
What part of "The devices will not magically appear, Nokia will issue an official press release as soon as they ship." did YOU not understand? Nokia will tell us when they ship to the resellers, as that has not happened how can those resellers possibly know when THEY are shipping to the individual shops?
That's all fine and good, but, in the face of no press release sitting around anywhere, I'm going to believe a date that nokia.co.uk have given me - and many other people - every single time we've asked about it for a long time now. And that amounts up to a lot of times. Personally, I've spoken with at least 6-7 different people now. They're all saying the same date, without fail. That doesn't just come from invention or some other made up crap.

If you don't want to believe that, that's fine, and I'm not saying that it will happen - but I have no evidence to the contrary, and a lot of coincidental evidence pointing to it being correct.

I'm personally not bothered either way.
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I jumped on this deal and canceled an Amazon preorder for it like many others... but if it doesn't go through, I think I will be happy with my N810 after all. I've been having serious second thoughts almost since I preordered anyhow.

I really hope it comes through, though. For everyone (who ordered)'s sake.
 
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Hallellujah, you're twisting my melon man!

Cometh the Monday cometh the phone!
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When I spoke with someone from the Nokia Online Shop last week, to recreate my order, he said something about "when it's released next week" twice in the conversation.

But then I asked "oh, is the release date next week?", he said no there isn't one yet.

So tantalising!
 

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