The Nokiausa site is now showing the 770 backordered until 12/14/2005.

Where are you finding this announcement? Can you throw me a link?

Thanks in advance.

*** Okay, I just saw the post in the BLOG. Sorry for the distressed plea for help and thx to Eye Surgeon for their great investigative talents.

Robert,

Don't mean to make you wander all over the place here. :-)

We cover a lot of ground here, but you will probably want to subscribe to planet.maemo.org for a wider spectrum of info. And the blog entries show up there too.

No sweat at all and thanks for the instructions too. I was just all over the map today looking for tidbits of any truth to what we're all experiencing and frustrated with.

The 770 will arrive at some point and surely be worth the wait.

See the blog update for the latest good news in the good-news/bad-news pendulum: units received and shipping to pre-orders.

Ok. I've got my fingers crossed. *crossed fingers* *crossed toes*

Mel

Just a thought, but as Nokia signed a deal recently with any adsl operator to provide 770 to their customers? Because a months delay does sound like they were stacking 770s for something. Otherwise they would be making smaller deliveries every week or so.

At least wanadoo has inked the deal. So if they have ordered couple thousands 770, it will take week(?) to stack that order.

I just spoke with a rep at the 888-256-2098 number (which arrived via e-mail after I placed my order last Tuesday), and she also said that the shipment hadn't arrived yet, and orders wouldn't be filled until December.

I asked if "until December" meant "by the end of November (e.g., by December 1)" or "sometime in December" and she said it could be either.

I asked if they were getting a lot of calls about this today, and she said yes.

I asked how many orders had been placed, and she said around 800.

I was like, "You mean 800 eight hundred? Not 800,000 but just eight hundred?" and she was like, "Yeah, eight hundred."

Jeeeeez. Not enough 1000 units arrived to the U.S. yet.

I wouldn't be surprised by that. The Blog section had a link to an interesting article about the market impact of the 770:

http://www.cellnn.com/2005/11/15/nokia-770-mini-tablet/

Here are a few quotes from that article:

"“I just don’t get a good feeling about [the 770],” says Ferris Research analyst Richi Jennings, who adds that the device could appeal to some technology enthusiasts. “But geek-lust isn’t the mass market.”"

and

"okia brings the new device to market at a time when sales of hand-held devices such as Palm personal digital assistants and Pocket PCs are down 22% over last year, according to IDC. Moreover, similar devices from Sharp, Toshiba (other-otc: TOSBF - news - people ) and Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) have failed. With the holiday gift-buying season already here, the 770 is unlikely to appear on many wish lists."

delays in availability certainly don't help with the above

and

"As for the 770, Ambrosio says Nokia probably intends to ship only few hundred thousand of the $350 device, while a blockbuster cell phone might sell 10 million units. Because the 770 won’t be sold through a cell-phone carrier, Ambrosio expects sales to be weaker.

Jennings agrees: “Nokia works most successfully when they have a channel relationship with a partner. It is systemic in their organization.” "

I'm buying one and will impatiently wait until it is delivered. However, I have commented on the difficulty Nokia has in marketing a device like this. I've also mentioned what I feel to be mistakes in the product's launch which I feel could damage it's long-term success. I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see it dropped by Nokia within 12 to 18 months. I hope I'm wrong, but I could see it happening.

Jeff