No way, just like discussed on this one?

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...ht=amazon+n900

This is apparently correct. I thought Newegg was but they are not.

Dell is it in the US.

Yeah and I ordered from newegg. Who knows when they'll ship.

I see the following offer on Amazon (USA) now:

Rebate Offer: Receive $50 from Nokia with this (in-box) mail-in rebate. Offer valid through December 31.

This is very attractive!

PLEASE USE THE SEARCH BUTTON!

Sorry for yelling. But this is the 3rd thread with more or less the exact same subject.

Thanks MountainX. I had not come here searching for rebates, so I would have never known if not for you. I appreciate the (re)posting. It's that kind of helpfulness that makes the Maemo community such a pleasure to deal with.

Threads merged, and for your own sake, please contain all future discussion of this rebate to this one thread. I'm all out of tranq darts for TA-t3.

Its a bad economy folks. As much as this device kills, the general public does not even know it exists here in the states.

Nokia is taking a viral approach. This takes users and word of mouth. Thus, needing it priced appropriately for consumers in this current market/climate.

If wholesale is truly in the $400's, then this lines up with every discount we have seen here. (Dell, Amazon, Newegg) Unfortunately, for those on the other side of the pond, Nokia has advertising costs and an Apple like allure that builds/firms up the price.

I suspect we will see deals on the N900 throughout the holidays season, then a permanent price cut shortly there after.

The n900 has to get out of the gate before you can even start selling it. Unless Nokia is intending more people to get on the pre-order rollercoaster for the Christmas holidays

Anyway though, it was interesting to see how Dell reacted to that coupon knocking the n900 into the $422 range a while back. It seems to indicate that the wholesale price is somewhere between that and $519 (the price Dell was offering before that). Or Dell is uncomfortable with making a teeny tiny profit. I can't imagine the prices being dropped off that quickly though. Maybe by April or May.

I think it is great that they are making some effort to knock the price down, but they are still talking $500+ with no available subsidy in the US, a market where a lot of the heavily advertised smart-phones can be had for $100-200 under contract. The high entry cost, lack of serious retail brick and mortar presence and no advertising to speak of pretty much consigns the n900 to the Internet Crowd. And lets face it, the Interwebs is one big echo chamber that doesn't interface with the general public to any great degree. If you don't get the N900 in significant numbers of people's hands, you aren't going to attract commercial developers.

Apple has sold 1.6+ million 3g/3gs Iphones.
Verizon sold something like 250,000 of its new Droid phones in the last couple weeks and there are a plethora of other Android offerings now available at low low prices.

Anyone want to take a guess how many n900's Nokia will sell in the US market? Worldwide?