Originally Posted by marxian

I have a friend, Harry Caul, who can do that. He passed the audio through several filters and got a good result. He would not provide me with the filtered audio track, but did give me a transcript. For security reasons I refer to the two individuals as Bill and Ben.

Bill: "Hi, my name's Bill. I work in strategy. What's your name? I haven't seen you before."

Ben: "My name's Ben. I work in marketing. What's the latest news on this Meltemi thing?"

Bill: "It's a Linux OS for low end devices. It's just a minor thing. It was only supposed to be on a million phones, but some clown misheard and the slogan became 'the next billion'. Ballmer hit the fvckin' roof. Chairs flying everywhere. He doesn't like all this talk of a billion phones running Linux, even the heavily gimped, locked-down type."

Ben: "It's going to be tough selling a billion of anything, given that we've been screwing our customers for the last few years. I think the N9 will be a hit, though."

Bill: "Nah. We've only produced 92,000 of the things. The boss is making sure that it will be buried. We've got some WP devices that will be announced soon. That should do it."

Ben: "I see. What about this Tizen thingy? Do you see that as being a threat to WP?"

Bill: "We're pretty sure that it will fail, although with Samsung involved, there is a slight chance of success. Had we been on the inside, we could have been certain of failure. Now we'll just have to rely on Intel and The Linux Foundation to fvck it up."

Ben: "That might not be enough to guarantee the success of WP though. Sales haven't been to great."

Bill: "Ballmer's going to see to that one. He's meeting the execs from the big carriers later. In the conference room, there's at least 50 chairs, but there are only 15 people attending. I heard Ballmer insisted on extra chairs. No idea what he wants with them."

Bill: "Hey! What's that under your shirt? Are you wearing a wire. Motherfvcker!"

*gunshot*

Originally Posted by jotoco

With taxes (60% AFTER Shipping) this is going to be higher than what I will pay here, if I manage to get my hands on one. And I will lose any warranty (not that Nokia gives support or warranty around here, anyway).

I expect to pay about BRL1600,00 on a 16gb model here. It seems no 64gb will make it here, so 16gb will be the only option.

1 BRL = 19,43BAHT
1 BRL = 0,38 EURO
1 BRL = 0,58 USD

Originally Posted by Lindegaard

Pics:
http://peecee.dk/upload/view/329490 N8
http://peecee.dk/upload/view/329491 N8
http://peecee.dk/upload/view/329492 N9
http://peecee.dk/upload/view/329493 N9

Originally Posted by abill_uk

I do not understand your post because you have just quoted much more for a 16gb in your country than you will pay in Asia, what taxes are you reffering too?, the prices i gave are including vat and all you pay on top of that is delivery AND import duty if it is applicable.

Originally Posted by jotoco

Yep, import taxes are that high. And I have to pay on top of shipping, too. Shipping is taxed by the same amount as the product.

Originally Posted by jotoco

Yep, import taxes are that high. And I have to pay on top of shipping, too. Shipping is taxed by the same amount as the product.

Originally Posted by abill_uk

OUCH my heart goes out to you.

Is there any chance you can get together a few mates that want the N9 and one of you fly over to Thailand as you will be able to avoid these taxes for sure.