The Nokia N900 should have been on general sale by now. But as usual, with all things Nokia, it’s not. Well, it is on sale. Sort of. Just in the US anyway, if today’s press release is to be believed. The N900′s were shipping over a week ago according to Nokia. Although they handily omitted who they were actually shipping the devices to. Customers? Retail Stores? The Moon?
Endless rumoured dates have come and gone.
For once, in a long time, Nokia have managed to hype a handset release with so much PR, you would have thought they would have at least paid some attention to the fact of whether the device was ready to go on sale worldwide, and not just in one (fairly small for Nokia) region.
It seems so long ago that the device was announced. In fact it was the 27th August to be exact, here is the press release. So in terms of announcement to availability, around 3 months isn’t actually that bad if you use Nokia’s Symbian department as a yardstick. But still terrible compared to other manufacturers.
Why didn’t they just say that it would be available in December, give themselves some leeway, and then if they manage to get it out the door in late November, Nokia would be hailed as the peoples hero.
Instead, customers are told a multitude of different things, by different people and end up getting irritated. I was told by my local Nokia Store that the N900 would be available on Monday 16th November. No show. Then the London Nokia Store apparently put up on it’s Twitter, that they would be on sale tommorrow (19th). That tweet has since been removed, apparently.
Now, by all accounts, the latest rumour, and I would stress that this is a rumour, it will be on sale next monday the 23rd November.
Who knows.
I wouldn’t be writing this if Nokia would have just said it will be on sale 1st December.
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