Originally Posted by Venomrush

That's horrendous! Week 49 = 2 weeks before Christmas!

I guess that's why there are different product codes, they're planning to ship it out at different time for each country? Hence there is no universal Euro product code.

Originally Posted by rcs1000

Brightpoint / Dangaard (Europe's largest mobile phone distributor) recieved its first N900s today.

I don't know when they will ship to retailers, but I can't believe they'll arrive any later than Friday. So, maybe we'll see the first shipments to customers on Saturday... Pre-orders arriving Monday?

Fingers crossed.

Originally Posted by lostsoul67

This is a locally taken decision by Nokia Sweden. The reason is "that we want to make sure that the customers gets a good user experience from the start" according to Product Manager Klas Strom, Nokia Sweden. So while the rest of the world gets their N900's, Sweden will have to wait to week 49 or even longer for a simple software issue that affects a minority of the customers.

Originally Posted by cake

And this is for a device which has, since its inception, been geared toward tech-savvy customers, who would guessingly be able to figure out how to update the goddamn thing. Also, note that it's not even marketed as a phone - it's an internet tablet with a phone application as far as I've heard. I'm finding the decision increasingly hard to understand.
The launch-through-release part of the marketing of the N900 has been an absolute farce.