Was to be expected, not an american so I don't give a ****, as long as they push meego in other regions, europe, india, china, middle east etc. Those are the places where nokia should NOT use wp7.

You've just described a different plan.

I pay $15 a month for 2gb of data per month, $5 for 200 text messages (all receive, I use Google Voice to send) and I pay a monthly subscription fee for my phones (I have two on my account).

What do you pay for monthly voice? And in what amount?

Good question. I pay 10 cents a minute, and don't make many calls. Since I am often home, I am not calling people from my cell phone then. Text messages are unlimited, btw. I'm of course not paying any additional fees for my phone.

Tmobile doesn't seem to be interested in whether I am using a smartphone.

That's interesting gerbick. You have to pay for receiving messages, and for having phones 'attached' (kinda 'registered'?) to your plan? Please elaborate.

Ah, it's always good to get home from a hard day of work and get kicked in the testicles.

You know, I had already made up my mind that I didn't give a crap if the N9 was released in the US. I was going to import it anyhow.

Most of the electronic devices I have ever liked have always hit it much bigger in Europe than in the USA. I don't know what it is about Americans, whether they just always go for the cheap, or they are just so used to being screwed over by greedy politicians and corporations that they just accept whatever steaming nuggets that are sold to us.

For example, back in the day, the Atari ST and Amiga were both far superior to the Apple Mac and IBM PCs. Yet where is Atari and Amiga now?

Oh speaking of that, when I read that they'd be moving all of their crap to Sunnyvale, I instantly got a flash back of Atari and their rise... and absolute fall there.

It's like the battle of VHS vs Betamax. As many have attested, MeeGo is superior to WP7.

Also notice, it's another ex-Microsoft anus face that is head of the USA market. Are they seriously so brainwashed by MS that they believe that the WP7 platform will miraculously sell a crapload because Microsoft is a company based in the USA?

I don't even know a single person that has a Nokia phone, besides myself. I even try to spot them in stores here and there never are any. Everyone who wants a smartphone pretty much already have either an iPhone or an Android. Not to mention they already have some money sunk into whatever apps, or at least are used to the free ones that are ad supported.

I've personally seen one WP7, and it really looked horrible with it's big square tiles. Ugh, didn't actually use it, have no real desire to.

This whole thing makes me wonder something though, how many MeeGo developers that got the N950 are located in the USA?

slaapliedje

P.S. I'm one pissed off citizen of the USA.

The N9 is clearly supposed to fail. They'll build a minimal number released in limited areas with minimal promotion and support. Then Elop and his honchos can use it's pre-ordained failure as more justification for sellling out to MS and WP7. I can hear him now..."Well, we built a really nice MeeGo phone but it failed miserably to generate buzz and sales. Obviously no one cares about MeeGo."

IOW Elop is only releasing the N9 to build justificatiion to abandon MeeGo entirely. An intentional fail inspite of nice hardware and a great OS. Because MeeGo - aka Linux - is a mortal enemy to Elop, Ballmer, M$ - and of course WP7.

I travel way too often. I need way more minutes for business than what you describe. Your needs and mine are way opposite it seems.

If you use data, you'd think they'd know if you had a smartphone or not. I mean, there's feature phones with browsers, but nothing chews through bandwidth like tethering. Let's see how data insensitive they are then...

Now that would be a curious project.

Btw, it's already on ./ ... http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/...-North-America

@slaapliedje: regarding ST and Amiga, it was the lack of marketing. The Americans rely on marketing. If there's no or no substantial marketing, only geeks go out of their comfort zone in hunt of something they might be interested in, or what is deemed to be needed.

@slaapliedje

Excellent post. We must have been separated at birth.

P.S. I have an n950 and I'm in the U.S.

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I think Nokia is trying to follow Apple's footstep by setting the number of supplies less than the market demand, so that their unit prices raise sky high and the things get mass-imported to china's grey market by mules like the iPhones do.

or not.