I ordered last week and mine is still "In Production." Today is the magical December 2nd date some have said Dell will ship. Then there's December 4th as well.

I think Nokia is purposely holding them back. I've read countless posts from people stating they canceled their order with Buy.com/Amazon, and ordered direct from NokiaUSA...and their device was shipped immediately and received in a few days.

It's the Kindle / Nintendo Wii approach....make the product in high demand by having limited stock, and delays in shipping. Always claim it's backordered and sold out, and POOF, instant product success like the Wii and Kindle.

Hm, there might be something to this. I had 2 day shipping and the cs rep I am corresponding through email with incorrectly stated my shipping was 3-5 days, I had to correct him.

There hasn't been alot of activity in this thread because calling them is frustrating and pointless, they just read off the screen and have zero information to provide thats meaningful. I really think Nokia is screwing with us, there is no shortage I mean they have stock and are able to sell it at a discounted price, they are just withholding stock and making preorders unneccasarily wait.

At this point I hope it never ships...I just want my 3 orders bing cash back to mature so I can cash my chips and wait for the n910!!!

My guess is this is not intentional but simply because supply chains don't run backwards. There was an allocation to various distributors and the one that distributes the nokiausa online orders simply isn't exhausted yet and there is no mechanism for that stock to be pushed backwards up the supply chain so that it can come back down to the other distributors (for dell, buy.com, whoever).

Perhaps the reason there is available stock for nokiausa.com at all is because its allocation was based on # of original nokiausa preorders, and we all know how many of those were lost due to all of their problems (them switching to new system, invalidating orders with bluetooth headsets, valid credit cards getting declined, their fraud system screwing lots of people over, their pricing not being competitive, etc.. )

Is it possible that there was just one original batch that came by air freight and that the second wave is waiting on shipment by sea? And anyone who currently has stock simply hasn't yet sold their allotment from the original batch for whatever reason...

found this on howardforums. Not advertising just trying to provide info.

Well we managed to get our back order on Nokia N900 today and it will arrive tommorrow. Let us know if you are interested. Some guys in this post are right abt nokia holding the stock and is not letting dealers sell it . Only nokia Flagships got exclusive.
We have a very limited qty for that reason.
you can view it here.
http://www.sntradersonline.com/phon...duct_id=snp1185

I was actually told by one of the many Dell Reps I spoke to on basis on not getting mad or reporting him that the reason my order did not ship compared to an order shipped after me was that My price was too cheap and the other order was full price.

I was dumbfounded....

On the other hand amazon gave me a price difference for two items that were not even the same:

regular ps3 game and collectors edition of the same game...

I dont know what to make of it?

Honestly, at a certain point, Dell will just tell you what you want to hear so you stop tieing up their order support lines.

there's like a 10 minute wait when i first heard the message i thought it was the work of everybody here

This is the response I got from my dell rep im corresponding with;

I am actually tracking your order since yesterday.



Based from the information that was emailed to me last time by the expedite department, the estimated ship delivery will be on 12/04.



But now, the estimated delivery that is showing in our records indicates that the estimated delivery date will be on 12/09.



I am trying to get in touch to the other department who handles expedite.



I will give you feedback within the day..


I will post again when I get feedback.