n900 withdrawn from Nokia flagship stores?

[dwould]

Yesterday I went to London and visited the Nokia flagship store on regent street. They told me that they had no N900, and what's more it had been removed from ALL the flagship stores.
It was indicated the reason for this was not wanting to give a bad impression to people base on some problems with pre-GA code base.

However,the person I spoke to also said he'd not seen an N900 at all which implied to me that the London store maybe never had one.

Anyone know if they've really been withdrawn at all stores? I guess it would fit with the nokia uk site showing a tentative November relase now :-(

[tenoclock]

I just found out amazon replaced the pre-order page with email notification..kinda confirmed what you found out...jeez..

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002OB49SW/ref=ox_ya_os_product

[NvyUs]

amazon have been changing the status between stuff ever since they started taking orders..
btw N900 as not been delayed theres been confirmation by Peter@maemo marketing its still going to be released October in select markets as originally stated by Nokia
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=332749#post332749

[benny1967]

btw N900 as not been delayed theres been confirmation by Peter@maemo marketing its still going to be released October in select markets as originally stated by Nokia

"Select markets" could mean they ship 3 devices to Andorra. :D

(In fact, it really doesn't say anything about when it's going to be released in the US, the UK or anywhere else. IIRC, Nokia starts shipping devices to some countries earlier and other have to wait months until they get the same.)

[NvyUs]

Italy and Germany both have shipping dates already i'm sure a few other places will too soon, Its released in germany on the 12th if i remember correct

[Bulfaiter]

Yesterday I went to London and visited the Nokia flagship store on regent street. They told me that they had no N900, and what's more it had been removed from ALL the flagship stores.
It was indicated the reason for this was not wanting to give a bad impression to people base on some problems with pre-GA code base.[...]

It's me, or telling a potential customer those things about problems and all also gives a very bad impression?

[myrjola]

Well at least the Helsinki flagship store had it yesterday (saturday 26.9).
Handled it for about 10 mins.

[mece]

I call shenanigans on this rumor, since it was in the Helsinki store yesterday.
*getting me broom*

[anidel]

I'll probably walk in the Nokia Flagship store in London later today.
Curious to see if it's there..

[dwould]

I'll probably walk in the Nokia Flagship store in London later today.
Curious to see if it's there..

if you get told anything different to me I will not be happy. It was the main reason I planned to go to London yesterday and I was most dissapointed bhy it's absence.

Most interesting that it sounds like it *is* in other flagship stores, at least in helsinki.

[allnameswereout]

Bummer, I'm going to London and really would love to test N900 out there :( how about other Nokia stores in London? Can someone confirm they're not demoed there?

OTOH makes sense not to demo a prototype since it isn't the final product.

[ppriyank]

that's interesting, because i went to NY flagship store just last week to check out the N900 since i pre-ordered it from amazon, but the rep there told me that they don't have the n900 out for people to play with anymore. so she took me upstairs where they had it locked behind a glass window. So basically, i cud just see the damn thing, but didn't get to touch/feel the phone. Was really disappointed with that, because i really wanted to feel the phone and what-not...but i guess its not just at nokia usa flagship store, its internationally.

Now i don't feel all that bad :P

Priyank

[anidel]

Sorry I wasn't able to go to the store.. we arrived pretty late and got delayed by the Regent's Festival that was running in, guess, Regent Street.

I think calling before planning would be wise.

Aniello

[nMIK-3]

New York Nokia Store has now the N900 behind class only. No hands on any more.

[mece]

Too many people hacking away at it perhaps?

[ossipena]

Too many people hacking away at it perhaps?

this could be one possibility. xterm + announced method to gain root + über 1337 hacker isn't a good mix

announced method:
http://flors.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/screenshot13.png

[NOKIAFAN]

the flagship store in chicago has a facebook and they just uploaded an hour ago more pictures of the n900 which is in their store and they said it's coming soon along with n97 mini. this is killing me! can't wait to have this phone
http://i705.photobucket.com/albums/ww55/ganda0669/nokiachicago2.jpg
http://i705.photobucket.com/albums/ww55/ganda0669/nokiachicago.jpg

[lorelei]

this could be one possibility. xterm + announced method to gain root + über 1337 hacker isn't a good mix


:D daily (or hourly? or after each customer?) firmware reflash is in order ;)

[franklinn]

the flagship store in chicago has a facebook and they just uploaded an hour ago more pictures of the n900 which is in their store and they said it's coming soon along with n97 mini. this is killing me! can't wait to have this phone
http://i705.photobucket.com/albums/ww55/ganda0669/nokiachicago2.jpg
http://i705.photobucket.com/albums/ww55/ganda0669/nokiachicago.jpg

Relax its ok you'll soon have it :D. I know the feeling though - I'm looking forward to running multiple browser windows with Internet Radio running in the background. N810 does this but slows on open of multiple browser windows / flash etc.

[qole]

The nerds were getting it all sticky.

[somedude]

The nerds were getting it all sticky.

LOL. Best thing I have heard today so far.