Re: How many people actually bought the n900?
 

* Wonders what thread titles are for *
I have been asking myself that question too, searched and couldn´t come up with a decent answer. I know 1 other guy who bought it because he heard from me. Being a linux user too he figured he couldn´t go wrong. With everyone else that asked me, I argued against a potential purchase.

Re: How many people actually bought the n900?
 

One way to guess N900 actual sale number is through Facebook.

Sharing photo to facebook through service used to be labeled as "from Facebook mobile". After the sharing plug-in got updated a month or two ago, it now shows "uploaded from Nokia N900." Clicking the link leads to the app page, and there the number of active monthly user is around 75k. (The native facebook app, Facebrick, only has 7k user but it's usefulness is quite limited in its current form so the 10:1 difference is understandable.)

In theory, many N900 users should be active Facebook users. Let's be generous and say only 30% N900 user share their photos on Facebook, meaning they are around 250k units being used. In any case, the sale is definitely below 1 million.

There are also a few stories about N900 sale number:
1) A couple of months ago Gartner claimed less than 100k N900 were sold in the first 5 months.
2) Nokia countered by saying it sold more than 100k in the first five week. (Of course not counting the units returned...)
3) Eldar repeatedly saying N900 sale number is disappointing, though who knows what his expectation is.....
4) N900 was launched in Asian region probably to boost sale number. But from what I heard the number of units sold are not much.

All in all, I'd say N900 sale is not too bad for such a geeky/quirky device. What's bad is how Nokia treated N900 users ...

Re: How many people actually bought the n900?
 

i bought from expansys UK for 438 pounds and iv got it at the 3rd of February.

Re: How many people actually bought the n900?
 

Many a user hate social networking. Guessing by facebook share is just as good if not worse than guessing, IMO.

Re: How many people actually bought the n900?
 

I'd guess the opposite. While the N900 does address the social networking crowd in a way (its capabilities), I think it still has a huge fanbase among those who like the idea of a phone based on free software as much as possible. I'd say that these people are more likely to avoid facebook than the average internet user. (ideological reasons, being more aware of privacy issues or keen to trying alternatives.)

Re: How many people actually bought the n900?
 

Agreed, I never post anything to facebook, in fact I don't even have the app enabled on my phone at all. I did at one point, but between facebook annoying me and it being blocked from work when I connect to the wireless network, it became a non-use item.

Besides, we all know Linux geeks don't have any friends or social skills, right? :D

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Re: How many people actually bought the n900?
 

They do if It was geeky. ASCIIBook?

Re: How many people actually bought the n900?
 

Facebook ouch stay well away from it.

I do wonder though Nokia obviously never sold enough units or they would not have messed us about like they have with slow updates and eventually dumping Maemo, so so sad a company can do this to us.

Re: How many people actually bought the n900?
 

I bet the turning point was the usb port problem, this obviously told Nokia get out of this situation... quick.

Re: How many people actually bought the n900?
 

Well I for one don't use facebook either :) It's too modern, browsers are too slow, internet has too much latency, etc...