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2009-11-14
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Originally Posted by jaark
Happens all the time. Sharp eyed people take pictures and it ends up on Engadget or something. Sometimes the retailer slips up and has the item available for purchase before the official launch date, sometimes it's pictures of stock before it's on the shelves taken by employees. A recent example is the Palm Pixie showed up in display cases in Walmart before official launch but it was not yet entered in the system and thus could not yet be purchased.
How would you feel if you saw your local shop being delivered a big box marked 'Nokia N900' and them refusing to sell you one?
Many people would be complaining that their local shop has stock but won't sell.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/p...le-of-walmart/
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2009-11-14
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@ Finland
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Originally Posted by sharper
This might be one of the reasons why N900 costs more in EU than in USA.
Nokia's lack of worldwide warranty is just another layer of frustration on top of everything else. If you do buy your phone in the US (or from the US via ebay) it has to be sent back there for repair - even if your country has a repair service for it.
The other manufacturers do international warranty.
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2009-11-14
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@ Venezuela
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Hey guys i called yesterday to the nokia online store in USA and they told me that the Nokia N900 is now in the store!!!! But they canīt ship the device because the Nokia BH-703 Bluetooth headset
of the promotion with the pre-order is not compatible with the
N900!!!! whatīs wrong with you Nokia? why you do this things in the North American market???? is for things like this that Nokia Is not The Lider in USA and Nokia need to do better efforts to suplie the needs of the people of the USAīs market! What do you think about it?????
Last edited by yerjoshy; 2009-11-14 at 01:22.
of the promotion with the pre-order is not compatible with the
N900!!!! whatīs wrong with you Nokia? why you do this things in the North American market???? is for things like this that Nokia Is not The Lider in USA and Nokia need to do better efforts to suplie the needs of the people of the USAīs market! What do you think about it?????
Last edited by yerjoshy; 2009-11-14 at 01:22.
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2009-11-14
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@ Brighton, UK
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Uh-oh...just went to the MPD web site to see if there was any change in the 'exclusive availability from mid november' statement. Clicking on the N900 now redirects to www.nokiaretail.co.uk which states 'delivery during late november'
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2009-11-14
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@ New York City
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Originally Posted by yerjoshy
Sounds like bs to me. I ordered the phone on Wednesday without said Bluetooth promotion. I wonder what will happen.
Hey guys i called yesterday to the nokia online store in USA and they told me that the Nokia N900 is now in the store!!!! But they canīt ship the device because the Nokia BH-703 Bluetooth headset
of the promotion with the pre-order is not compatible with the
N900!!!! whatīs wrong with you Nokia? why you do this things in the North American market???? is for things like this that Nokia Is not The Lider in USA and Nokia need to do better efforts to suplie the needs of the people of the USAīs market! What do you think about it?????
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2009-11-14
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Originally Posted by RevdKathy
No no, I don't mean when the devices arrive. It's pointless to try to figure that out based on how many variables one has to take into account as you pointed out. I meant more as "which retailer is getting the shipments first". And things like if the exclusivity thing is true or not. It may not matter to you when you get the device, and normally it wouldn't bother me.
Well the delay was... a delay. No, we weren't told exactly what caused it. We were told that it was in response to feedback from the 300 loan devices. I've said before that's as much as a manufacturer dare say - if they gave details of the problem it would stoke up rumours of some non-existent problem that will be fixed by release anyway.
As for information since the devices left the factory... that was Tuesday - it's only Friday now! It may feel like a century or two since Peter's announcement, but it's only three days. When will devices arrive at retailers? Well, that actually does depend on things like tides, Somali pirates, shipping companies, road haulage, and a range of things not quite under control. If you wanted exact details, Nokia should probably have waited till all the devices were delivered safely to retailers and then said 'go'!
The imformation about who gets priority and stuff like that seems like a more reasonable grumble, but only if you want to be One Of The First. I want the device before my current phone dies, but actually, I'm not that interested in being The First to be able to come in here and dance about it. If I'm a week behind the rest of you, well, so be it. I want it because it's a good device, not so I can be the first to have a new shiney toy.
Those places where there's been a serious delay (such as Sweden) have had a formal announcement. Other delays are just rumours.
I was planning on waiting till next year originally but I decided that my life was to hectic with my commuting to 3-4 different places a week and not having fast access to my email until I got home or to my sister's dorm to check email. It's hard to coordinate meetings and stay up to date when your only checking email the 30 minutes before you go to bed because you have to get up at 5 AM for work just to sit in a two hour commute to work. =P And likewise to get home (ah the joys of being a Washingtonian). Though I'm happy simply for the fact I have a job that looks like it may convert me into a full time employee after I graduate with my Masters degree. And they offer a back to school program after you work with them for a while (provided you stay with them for X amount of years) so I can go back to get my PhD after I pay off my student loans.
Even with that I was still fine for waiting on the n900 (provided that it was arriving this year since if I'm paying more then 2 months of 3G access and not being able to use it then...) but the more pressing issue is that my mom is leaving for a trip to Vietnam (she hasn't been there since her family left Vietnam on a raft.. literally following the year after the Vietnam War ended) and I bought the TMobile phone I did because I can get TMobile to unlock it so she can use it while in Vietnam. I checked the bands and everything to ensure that the current phone I bought works over there. II was hoping the n900 would arrive before she left in December so I would have a phone since that's the only thing that's keeping me coordinated with calling my gf or dad for a ride when the public transportation stops (again the joys of living in an area where public transportation only serves you during rush hour), or my sister to come down and let me into the dorm. That's why things like this are irritating me and I wish Nokia would communicate more about it.
(I'm usually a pretty mellow guy).
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They're maemo and MeeGo...
"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...
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2009-11-14
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Whose willing to bet the Scandinavia e.g. Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden will get it first!!!
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2009-11-14
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Originally Posted by Shaichico
Would be nice. My bet is 22/11 for Scandinavia.
Whose willing to bet the Scandinavia e.g. Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden will get it first!!!
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2009-11-14
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Originally Posted by Shaichico
I'm not so sure about Finland because there is possibility of Finnair's pilot strike. It could badly mess up the air traffic in Finland.
Whose willing to bet the Scandinavia e.g. Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden will get it first!!!
Assumming that N900s have not already arrived in Finland and that they are transported by planes.
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In many cases the distributors buy the products directly from the factories. It maybe up to the distributor how they get the products to its own warehouses.