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Well I guess that answers the question on whether people should cancel pre-orders.

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Just got home with my N900.. hell yeah!! Sorry for the guys waiting.. At least they have some in..

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from where hv u got ordered previously or what

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Lol better late than never.

Can I ask though did you buy outright or on a contract?

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Dont expect a quick reply, hes busy playing with his new toy. Lucky !!!!

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Sorry for the delay, was actually trying to find a camera!!

I bought the device sim-free without contract from the London flagship store ages ago..

Here's a pic of all my touch screen Nokia's 7710, 770, n800,n810, n97 and n900 (to be fair, the photo was taken on a 5800 and for that reason, couldn't appear in the shot :)

It is awesome.. I'm still irritated that anyone is left waiting from the flagship store but the happy child in me is on a gadget high!

Please excuse the terrible sheet backdrop :)

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Wow, Impressive!

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As I think I said earlier in this thread: I've written up the *whole* story (starting with my order) with NOS, including the ******** ship dates and all, and I'm going to send it as high up the food chain as I can get on Monday.

Which might just be fairly high up, if they've still got that ******** £1k hold on my account.

I don't know how much good it will do, but I live in hope that it will result in some arses getting kicked, and I advise others to do the same.

Keep posting over in the 'shop.nokia.co.uk cancelled my order' thread, too.

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Ever since I got the 7710 handset in 2004/5, I vowed never to buy another Nokia device that didn't have a touch screen.. But it is funny to see so many touch screen devices in one pile..

mic works too.. only just put sim in!

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what do you think about N810?, I am seriously considering to cancel my order.

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I like the N810, I've using one for ages.. but it's a bit of a dead fish.. The N900 is the next evolutionary step.

I wouldn't buy an N810 now because a) there's no more Nokia development and b) it's not a phone.. but it doesn't stop it being a great device!

The n900 is muuuch faster though.. the email client is fantastic (speed wise) compared to the n810.. and the browser is pretty fab too!

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I didnt know it was only internet tablet, so u r recommending to stick to N900? what other options r available? :P thanks for the quick reply.

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it really depends on what you're after. the N8XX devices weren't that everyday user friendly, but they held real hack-appeal. the N900 is definetly more main stream but it still holds this attraction. in a phone format I'm not sure there is much similar.

android might be worth a play but although the platform is open (in some ways more so than maemo) the devices aren't.

sorry this reply took longer, I've been out and now I'm replying on my device. niiiiiice

sorry everyone

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Are you saying what I'm thinking you're saying? Droid is more open than MAEMO?? WTF?

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Well I'm off to Dubai on the 15th, so if I don't get my phone before then I have to cancel the UK order.
At least then I can try in Dubai Mall.
[resisting the urge to rant again about Nokia UK shop's wonderful ordering system]

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Wouldn't recommend it.

No warranty in UK...

Also (I lived in Dubai) if you buy a phone in Dubai and it stops working in the first 28 days (even if you try it once you've paid for it & you're still in the same shop!) you don't get replacement, they'll send off for repair!

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The way things are out there at the moment, you might get it at a knockdown price!!!

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Nokia, Chief Executive, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, olli-pekka.kallasvuo@nokia.com
Is that high enough for you?:D

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I used to buy my phones in singapore nokia,they never let me down .

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Nuk Nuk,
who's there?
Hello?
Hello can u hear me?
HELLO?!?!?!

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OH!!! Thats low

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That, my friend, is very very harsh!

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Obviously you heard me ;)

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Any word on your replacement for the n900?

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Nah am sending it back next week and demanding a replacement or cashback.

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im a bit disapointed my mate got his he just back from canada, and to be honest it seems pish not happy i waited this long for a phone(internet tablet) loada crap, seriously our lives must be ****

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Guys,

Never thought it would happen but Im seriously starting to doubt my purchase. I have been watching this phone since it was announced, I have followed via Engadget and other sources drooling at every pic. I have patiently waited on my pre-order drooling over official and unofficial videos. I have sat at the lunch table watching every colleague around me playing with their iphone, smugly knowing that they had nothing compared to the device that would be arriving on my doorstep shortly.

...but recently, ever since people started recieving there device, there is a sea of negativity flowing in these forums. I have seen hardcore early adopters whimpering in the corner with their broken mic issue and draining batteries.

For me a phone with linux is the ideal gadget. I enjoy nothing more than fannying about getting things working but at the same time as a skint dad my phone is the only gadget i allow myself, and it has to have the wow factor...Im an mpd customer and potentially have another week to go but the question is knawing at me and getting louder and louder...after all this time of waiting...am I making the right choice???

Prob the whisky but thoughts and comments would be much appreciated. Mines is a 24 month contract (never committed to that length before but such was my passion for this device) Are we being blind sighted by what we want to have not to see the flaws of the n900?

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Those 2 statements are your answer really.

Broken hardware happens with every phone, you can get it replaced and it is only a small percentage..

The software will have bugs - its bleeding edge, but it has a community behind it, so fixes and functionality will come thick and fast which you won't get elsewhere
I went for a 12 month contract, I reckon if you have doubts, try to change the length of the contract to 18 months..

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Edgedemon you have been the voice of reason throughout my reading so cheers! In all honesty even if i wanted to cancel now i couldnt because I need it bad!!!

This is prob my biggest concern as the 18 month contract with my e90 seemed like forever but I have done my research and as long as I get half of what ive been promised 2 years of to quote myself of "fannying about" will be happy ones.

I guess I just wanted to give those dark thoughts in my head a voice but I will stay faithful! look forward to being a part of the community..Bring on next week.

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Well, I received mine last week.. I have had 0 problems with the device. I have an iPhone and a BlackBerry storm, this blows them both away without a doubt. I have actually turned off my iPhone and haven't turned it on since I got the N900

I need to be connected constantly, and be able to hop online at any given moment. So far the N900 has removed the need for me to even use my netbook.

One thing I can't get my head round is the number of people that just complain every instance they get which is bringing the mood down and over shadowing the positive experiences which I would say is the vast majority... You have people complaining right from the beginning "they delayed a week, typical nokia screw up", "they rushed it and xyz doesn't work, typical nokia screw up", "my bank rejected the order, typical nokia screw up", "<insert whine here>, typical nokia screw up" etc etc. It seems like nothing they do is to the satisfaction of the moaners and even things that aren't related to them, the blame gets put on them anyway... Take NukNuk for example, he has been posting at every opportunity he gets about his broken mic - we get it already your mic is broken - you're not happy.. no need to post 50 times about the same thing all over the place. If nokia is such a typical screw up then what I don;t understand is why some are so bothered about this device and paying so much for it from a company that in there eyes always screws up.. It's beyond me.. Things break, Nokia isn't the first company to have defective units. Nobody is going to die, the world isn't going to end because you're getting your phone 2 weeks later instead of right now..

For me? The phone is on the verge of perfection. Battery runs out a bit faster than I'm used to, but that's expected when I have the media player, web browser, various IM's etc. all running. It's a full blown computer. I'm just waiting for the battery to be in stock so I can order another one.

Another thing some fail to recognise is the Maemo community. Bugs being fixed rapidly, knowledgeable people ready and available to give assistance - no other phone has such a great community of people. The Maemo is a community driven project, I'm sure that's exactly what Nokia wants. The community to drive forward the innovations, the new features.. it's where the ideas are - the end users.

I haven't owned a Nokia for over 5 years. Tried LG, samsung, sony, motorola, hp, apple, RIM - none of them come close to this and I can comfortably say Nokia now have another follower.. I'll be sure to be waiting in line with each new iteration of this device that they bring out..

/rant.

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Glad to help, I too have had doubts, but when I look around, there just isn't anything to compare, so Im committed, and can't wait to get tinkering, also over a few glasses of whiskey no doubt :D

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Totally agree. while this website is full of negativity it is the same posters that keep appearing again and again on each thread. makes it hard to get a grasp on full scale of the issues and more than a few times I have wondered whether there are a few apple fanboys, employees lurking about.

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I was in London on Friday and took a detour to the flagship store. there were guys outside giving demos, friendly and somewhat knowledgable (I showed one my n800 and he was genuinely interested). He said there'd be none in the store for sale for another week, so we're talking about 4th December. They were handing out leaflets with £499 off contract, and a contract deal with vodafone - no mention of any other carrier. I was just getting into it when the three guys (I think there were three) were all called off to a meeting without the reason being stated.

I wasn't able to ascertain what release of maemo was on it, or to have a detailed poke around, I only got to play for about three minutes, sorry.

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Nope, they took delivery late Fri and people have picked up from them today, with the rest being shipped Mon - hopefully this means that MPD will get the a***s into gear..

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Yeah the NFS (I think you are referring to it?) gave the people buying outright their phones today with the contract ones being available for collection on monday.

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BREAKING NEWS?

N900 now available for collection for pre-orders.

Quote from LoveMyN900

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Speaking for myself I find the n900 fiddly and very confusing, but I am 60 after all, but the feeling of having the internet in my pocket and it being open source, warms the cockles of my heart.

Take tonight, I gave a lift to a friend somewhere and waited outside in my car, whilst they sorted a problem out.

Usually I would be fed up after short while hanging around waiting, because I would rather be at home on the 'net, doing what I normally do, most of the time, online chess usually.

Sitting in the car on the 'net felt good, I felt like my life was more free.

My n900 will let me travel and take the 'net with me where ever I go, technically speaking I could have done this with my previous phone a Samsung e900, but the screen was so small in terms of the 'net as to be virtually useless and of course being closed source the Samsung is anti public.

From a hardware point of view I have absolutely no complaints at all, the screen resolution has to be seen to be believed, this is the first HD mobile phone on the market and this is what makes the real difference, it almost makes me want to get higher power glasses.

Mic works fine, everything works fine, some of the software is a bit ropey around the edges but the fact that it is open source means it will soon receive a polish.

The worse software as far as I can see is the GPS stuff- talk about incomprehensible, get it working like Tomtom please Nokia.

Going on some of the comments on this forum it seems to me the people who have had hardware problems are very much in the minority, most people here have been praising the n900 after receiving it.

http://dollyknot.com

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It's available for outright purchase preorder today & contract pre-order from Monday.

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Sure my HTC I've owned for the past year runs 480x800px

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What model?