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2010-05-04 , 16:50
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#101
Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
i wonder if they're having high return rates (like they had with the n800) or if consumers read the specs before and knew what they bought.

if the return rates are reasonably low, this is most probably not quite what nokia expected.
I was thinking about this as well...considering the number of forum posters who keep proclaiming that they are returning their '900s I am surprised at the apparent sales growth, as mentioned in this thread.
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You'll know a product like the N900 is selling well when a significant third-party accessory ecosystem builds up around it.
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#103
Originally Posted by Enyibinakata View Post
too many yanks on the web ?
I know there are plenty of instances that the (usually us-based) media over-estimates the US' role in the world.

But in this case I think you're underestimating them...
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#104
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Yo'll know a product like the N900 is selling well when a significant third-party accessory ecosystem builds up around it.
seems to be the case. this is the first maemo-device they offer accessories for at all in "my local internet" (=popular sites/shops from central europe like amazon.de)

screen protectors, pouches, car mounts, chargers...
it'll be difficult to offer other things (like headphones/usb accessories/...) for the N900 as long as nokia keeps this annoying habit of using standard connectors
 

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#105
Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
seems to be the case. this is the first maemo-device they offer accessories for at all in "my local internet" (=popular sites/shops from central europe like amazon.de)

screen protectors, pouches, car mounts, chargers...
it'll be difficult to offer other things (like headphones/usb accessories/...) for the N900 as long as nokia keeps this annoying habit of using standard connectors
Docking stations are to me the best indicator of industry acceptance for mobile devices. They're all over for iProducts.

Of course, some car mounts for the N900 have them, so that's a good sign.
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Originally Posted by zombiegavins View Post
how is the 5800 so high on that list? I had one before I got my n900 and the camera was crap!
true, so thats why now its stay at home and become battery charger for n900

On the side note: 5800 is better than nuron for the camera.
 
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#107
This will not be of much use in calculating the total number of N900s in the wild, but I have made the same app (orrery) available for the Openmoko and Maemo 5 platforms. Two months after the Maemo 5 version was available in Extras it had three times as many downloads as the Openmoko version had had in two years. Of course, only about 20,000 Openmoko phones were sold.
 

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#108
Originally Posted by Ken-Young View Post
This will not be of much use in calculating the total number of N900s in the wild, but I have made the same app (orrery) available for the Openmoko and Maemo 5 platforms. Two months after the Maemo 5 version was available in Extras it had three times as many downloads as the Openmoko version had had in two years. Of course, only about 20,000 Openmoko phones were sold.
How many times was the openmoko version downloaded, two months after you made the software available back then?
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How many times was the openmoko version downloaded, two months after you made the software available back then?
I don't have those numbers, but I'm sure that the rate of Maemo 5 downloads just after release is more than two orders of magnitude larger than the number of Openmoko downloads just after release. At peak, I was getting about two downloads per minute from the Maemo Extras repository.
 

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It would be interesting to see a plot of the ratio number of n900 sold/number of iphone sold vs the month.
 
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