Originally Posted by Rocketman (Post 378719)

I think it is great that they are making some effort to knock the price down, but they are still talking $500+ with no available subsidy in the US, a market where a lot of the heavily advertised smart-phones can be had for $100-200 under contract. The high entry cost, lack of serious retail brick and mortar presence and no advertising to speak of pretty much consigns the n900 to the Internet Crowd. And lets face it, the Interwebs is one big echo chamber that doesn't interface with the general public to any great degree. If you don't get the N900 in significant numbers of people's hands, you aren't going to attract commercial developers.

Apple has sold 1.6+ million 3g/3gs Iphones.
Verizon sold something like 250,000 of its new Droid phones in the last couple weeks and there are a plethora of other Android offerings now available at low low prices.

Anyone want to take a guess how many n900's Nokia will sell in the US market? Worldwide?

Originally Posted by unkno (Post 378747)

A couple things worry me though...It says the device has to be purchased between Nov 16 and Dec 31; I'm assuming that pre-orders do not constitute as a purchase.
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