I ordered on 26/11/09 and I have just recieved this email:

"Nokia N900 with Maemo 5 - Now available for shipping!

We’re pleased to announce that Pre-orders for Nokia N900 will start shipping to customers this Friday 4th December on a first-ordered, first-supplied basis - We expect all pre-orders already placed to be delivered within 5 working days of this date.

If you have not already pre-ordered, then please do so now at www.nokiaretail.co.uk to secure your N900 as stock is limited. The Nokia N900 will also be exclusively available from Nokia branded stores from Friday 4th December in very limited quantities.

PAC Codes - For those customers who have advised that they wish to port their mobile number from another network and have not yet supplied us with a number portability ‘PAC code’ (available from their existing network), please send us your code as instructed on our previous email or advise us if you would like a new mobile number by replying to that email with your Order No.


We are currently experiencing a very high volume of both calls and emails regarding the exciting N900. We sincerely apologise if you are finding it hard to contact us but ask that you please bear with us at this busy time."

They do say: "The Nokia N900 will also be exclusively available from Nokia branded stores from Friday 4th December in very limited quantities."

So maybe you can just pop down to a Nokia Retail store if you have one near you and get it on contract that day.

yep just got same. woohoo i ordered 29th sept...

I really really hope they stick to this within 5 working days thing.
If they do we'll all have our devices by the 9th!!

i have also recieved this email i can not wait for the phone to come though the post next week :P

Well, yeah- just thought I wouldn't take it as read.

Do MPD know about this?? LOL

I ordered 8th nov. Looks like they have conjoured up lots of stock from somewhere

See, was sending that email, too hard. Even if it did not contain a date/time it would keep us up to date and stop worrying and getting mad here in the forums.

Hope they keep to this now, if they don't I will literally "eat my own earwax and we all know how horrid that tastes, right kids?" (taken from The Young Ones)

Doubt it lol. Someone should get on web chat and say they heard this rumour from a friend of a friend thah they're gonna ship all handsets out and all orders filled by the 9th to see what bull crap story they come up with this time.

I really hope they aren't lying to us again to stop people cancelling pre-orders! My aging heart (was 25 when I pre-ordered, think my "heart age" is going on 65 now!!) can't take another disappointment like this!