How many n900 have been sold?
 

I love my n900. Even though it is not my main phone I have the E73 mode for that. I mostly use mine to surf the web check emails and draw pictures with Mypaint (best app ever created for mobile device)to post on facebook. My question is does anyone actually know how many people bought it?

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I did.. and it was expensive too.

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You aint lying I paid 500 for mine in Feb. What I meant was how many did nokia sell?

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guys... i bought in january 4th or soemthing... for 3,000 riyals from axiom (saudi arabia) !!! and im a bit advanced user... so i love this phone.. the best customizable device !!! D:

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1 usd = 3.75 riyals !

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What kinda question is this? No I didn't buy it, santa gifted me. <__<

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No, tyrone means is it possible to find out how many N900's have actually been sold ?

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I tried a WomWorld trial a couple months ago and liked it, but too parallel to my N97 in major specs and features I needed (touchscreen/qwerty, 32GB, etc). The Dell $350 coupon was too good for me to pass up, so bit the bullet last week and definitely enjoying it more on PR 1.2. Still hoping for PR 1.3 to bring in full MMS and a half decent version of Ovi Maps so I can finally stop swapping the SIM with my N97.

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i got it for 1 money

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It's not been announced. You might be interested in the thread "Indications on how well the N900 is selling" though.

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I bought it! I use it all the time as a main phone and a computer!
It's a great mini computer and saves me pulling out my Mac!

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A difficult question to answer. Nokia, unlike Apple, don't like to talk about sales figures. I have two thoughts on this:

When I called Vodafone a month ago to order a N900 for a new employee I was told they no longer supply them at the sales centre and I might have more luck buying direct on their website. However, Tesco Mobile have only just started stocking the phone in the past month.

I don't know of a single other person who has the N900.

That said, there has been over 20 million app downloads from this site, so globally there must be tens of thousands of users.

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I bought it for $650. Pre-Order.

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i bought it at the end of the LAST YEAR. and i just love it, it's the best phone i've ever had :D

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If Wikipedia doesn't know then no one else know other than Nokia.

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bought mine after having a trial from womworld and i loved it, sold my n97 for 260, part exchanged my n95 for 70, ended up about a hundred quid i had to pay outa my pocket :)

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I got mine as a phone upgrade from Carphone Warehouse on my O2 contract.. and got in before they reworked their Unlimited Data deals.

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Bought it in may(I think) for $525 CAD. Right now, rate is almost equal CAD to USD.

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I bought it in jan or feb for 2170Dhs in Dubai = USD 594. My boss visiting last month liked it so much and bought for Just USD 435. I was not happy with the phone with lack of stuff on it but now with nitdroid on one partition and maemo on the other one and cpu clocked to 1GHz its one hell of a mini pc.

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Cheap. 600E. (~800USD). December 1 or so, when it was only launched in the first 6 countries.

ETA: I wonder if IMEI is sequential enough to get something from there. Isn't that by model?

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* 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.

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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 ...

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

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

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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.)

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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

slaapliedje

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They do if It was geeky. ASCIIBook?

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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.

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

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

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I do have 4 jabber accounts though, so my roaster is full and i see myself going online multiple times when i switch on my laptop; that would count as 'friends', wouldn't it?

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i did .............

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I bought it a couple of months ago, from mobiles.co.uk for £250. Glad I didn't spend £500 too (sorry).

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Yep. But this figure is only about PR 1.2, and it also has a great deal of assumptions.

You actually didn't assume that 30% of N900 owners are facebook users, but that 30% of the N900 owners are facebook owners and they regularly upload pictures and they do it with the facebook app. This is a pretty tough assumption. (I, for one, don't use facebook.)

Perhaps the Extras download number could give us a better estimate, but then again, not everyone uses Extras (I have -testing and -devel also enabled), and some people have more than one downloads from Extras.
Also, people still on PR 1.0 who don't have Extras enabled don't count in there.

Add to that the fact that people from Nokia repeatedly say how a success the N900 was for them. Which means that it actually sold above their expectations.

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I'd guess so. Anybody with a very new N900 from a large shop in here? Please check your IMEI and tell us the result - but NOT in detail! (We don't want to know YOUR exact IMEI :-)

- Ignore the first eight numbers
- Ignore the last number (checksum)
- Round the remaining number to the next 1000

Gives me 56000 for mine.

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74000

I think the assumptio with 30% on facebook is a good guess. but just an opinion.

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I am the only one who has one in the world. This forum is fictitious and messages are posted by Nokia employees in an attempt to delude me into thinking that there are other N900s out in the wild.

I have never seen one though so there can't be any out there can there? Although I once saw a dummy in a mobile store in Surrey a few weeks back.

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Haha!
What a ridiculous attempt!

I _know_ that I own the only one... and your message is also part of the delusion!

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Clearly, mine is the only one. Get out of my head!

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I had purchased 5 phones in the month of Febuary, earlier this year. One phone personal for myself and, 4 others for corporate.

Corporate Phones were given to,

Oracle Apps DBA
Application Manager
Cheif Information Officer
Cheif Executive Officer

Overall, the Officer Level Users are Bored to death with this phone. I dont blame them, why would they love this when they arent the curious types wanting to unleash its potential? I mean, they want something simple, straight forward and this phone isnt like the old N95 aged stuff anymore. All they say is, its confusing, this screen emails and calendar, this screen for calling blah blah, ranting and crying over it.

The DBA and Application Manager and Me Inclusive, we loved this phone.
My Application manager put aside his iphone 3g back into the box and gave it to his wife and says that he will never again go to the Apple's Side, says he has lost track of technology and the beauty of Open Source. I Agree with Him 100%.

My DBA, who works on Linux Systems housing the corporate's Oracle Databases, stated to me that he never thought that Nokia would do something for the Technical Groupies. He used to use Sony Ericsson which is now unseen in the office again.
As for me, There is nothing this phone isnt capable of. Personally, I believe, the phone OS is still very RAW and needs time to Mature. The moment it does, (And if there wont be another Open Source Phone by then), the N900 has a very bright future amongst the tech oriented people.