If those numbers are really true, which i find hard to believe (not questioning you, the whole thing just makes no sense to me), I'll be doing something that i haven't contemplated since i got my first cell phone about 16 years ago.
Buying a phone that is not branded nokia.

If the finland allotment of 64gigs is already spoken for, it really is no great feat if the whole planet is only getting 92k.

If it's only 1500 to brasil, why even bother putting on the website?

Nokia, i hope this rumor is really not true.

Eldar is right more often than not, and the guy didn't really have a reason to lie, since they don't really take pre orders. Only put names on a list. I left my name anyway but don't know if i will really buy it.

Is what i have been saying all along and everyone hates me for it but the truth is the truth and you lot are in for a nasty shock about this N9.

Bull$hit. One retailer in Finland is getting 5000 units from the first batch. That's just one. If the 92k was right, no devices would go out of Finland. Will you just forget about Eldar and stop spreading FUD?

Well, he did say the same thing a while ago about the n950.
So right more often or not may be an overstatement.
Unless of course the dev device to n9 ratio is 1:1, but somehow i don't think there are 92,000 n950's out there.
The way i see it, he's no better than 50/50 at the moment.

Eldar works for Samsung, so don't believe him. 92k is maybe right number of N950's but not for N9.

I visited in Nokia flagship store in Helsinki and more 64Gb model will be made later (in November). Nokia is now making basic model. Many stores are still taking pre-orders for 64Gb version, it's sold out only from Nokia flagship store.

Well, yes he does. It gets people talking about him, raises the 'Eldar' brand above the noise level. He doesn't have to be correct, just quoted (as he has been here).

I am a developer who has had the N950 since the first wave were released to developers back in July.

Some things I can say after months of constantly using and developing for the phone:

* The combination of C++ and QML has allowed me to develop an app that not only interfaces to a large existing code base (LinuxMCE), but also gives us a next generation UI that we are crossing over to on-screen displays, tablets, and handsets across Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Fremantle, Harmattan, MeeGo, and Android, currently.

* The pre-release software has some bugs, yes. But they did not impact my day to day use of the phone, nor did they impede my ability to write applications. I have hit the power button a grand total of 4 times in the months since I first got the N950, 3 of those were to deal with the dialer UI disappearing (was not able to hang up a call), 1 was to deal with a race condition in my app that was causing hell. I call this very stable for development hardware, the most stable I've ever used.

* This _is_ the best operating system Nokia has ever built, period. It suffers from none of the scalability problems and restrictions of Symbian, and it is fast and responsive.

* The usability, performance, and feature issues I had with Fremantle, were not only dealt with in Harmattan, but were vastly surpassed.

* Remember guys, this phone could very well have become vapourware, but it isn't. The phone hardware exists, is being mass produced, and can be bought. Yes, it is the last one of the line, but I applaud that the entire Nokia Internet Tablet experiment HAPPENED, and that PRODUCTION units were made of not one, but SIX different units (I do count the N950 in this list, because the N950 IS production tooled.)

I _am_ depressed about the fact that I am developing software for a phone that very few people will see, but with my combination of ANSI STL based C++, Qt based C++, and QML, my code is both reasonably portable (it does run just fine as a JNI under the Android NDK, and faster than the equivalent Dalvik app!), and performs very well, and will continue to do so, as I move it to other platforms. (C/C++ will always have to be an option because of commercial game developers who _INSIST_ on having the OPTION to write native code!)

While I do understand the long term frustrations of many on the various threads throughout the years on T.M.O. ... it really could have been worse. I've witnessed far worse happening to superior platforms over the last 25 some odd years...

We need to understand that ultimately, most victories are small, they move progress in tiny steps. Maemo, Moblin, and MeeGo, and even Android have set precedent for an open operating system environment (please, no pedantism! A little open, is better than completely closed, because being open is very much like a crack in the dam, eventually more water gets through, and the dam collapses.), we need to stop acting like little children who want our cake "now", and be both productive and patient, working towards a future where as time goes on, more and more of what is created by both the community, and companies with community interests are open.

-Thom Cherryhomes
Core Developer - LinuxMCE
http://www.linuxmce.org/

Wrong thread as this is the N9 thread but as you posted it anyhow i would like to know where you can buy the N950 as you have stated it can be bought.

More often than not? Riiiiight.....

I'll be chuckling in 3mth when the N9's sold more than 92k units worldwide, there's no sign of a sudden stop to batch allocations, & eldar's shown to be lying, once again.

Maybe then people will finally stop seeing him as a credible human being.