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Re: Orly? N9 not coming to USA

windows phone 7 market share 2Q 2011:

germany: 7.1%
US: 2.1%
Other countries <1.7%

maybe they should sell wp7 only in germany. On the other hand the germans were always loyal nokia customers so meego would probably sell good there as well.

Re: Orly? N9 not coming to USA

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Originally Posted by slaapliedje (Post 1066969)

This whole thing makes me wonder something though, how many MeeGo developers that got the N950 are located in the USA?

slaapliedje

P.S. I'm one pissed off citizen of the USA.

not very many, i looked at all the names and most sounded european... I'd estimate 10-20 tops out of the 250
(i'm including canada)

Re: Orly? N9 not coming to USA

If I see someone walking around with a piece-of-sh*t Sea Ray before I have an n9, my head might come right off my neck. But don't worry, I'll try to make sure somebody gets it on video.

Re: Orly? N9 not coming to USA

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Originally Posted by Zoxir (Post 1066910)

I swear half that some dude from Nokia opens his mouth it's bad news for the N9. Can they just STFU I don't know how many more of this I can read before I change my mind about the N9.

I have no affiliation with Nokia..... don't drag me in this mess:p:p

Re: What's wrong with the USA?

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Originally Posted by gerbick (Post 1066974)

If you use data, you'd think they'd know if you had a smartphone or not. I mean, there's feature phones with browsers, but nothing chews through bandwidth like tethering.

What does tethering have to do with having a smart phone? The Nokia 6600 had GPRS tethering over bluetooth, and virtually any Nokia feature phone still has that feature ...

Re: Orly? N9 not coming to USA

On amazon.de you can preorder the device (only 16GB black or blue) for 619 Euro, but the date of release is unknown. First they say it comes from Nokia.de, but now they've changed in "nokia.at", so it comes from the neighboring country.

So it seems be true, that it will not be officially released in Germany.

Re: Orly? N9 not coming to USA

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Originally Posted by lemmyslender (Post 1066946)

......contractual minimum amount of N9's

mmmmm. There's that word "contract" again.
Still haven't seen anyone produce evidence of this contract yet.

Or do i need to put my tin foil hat on for that?

Re: Orly? N9 not coming to USA

The "contract" says: killall

See the second link there http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=3708

Re: Orly? N9 not coming to USA

If Alien Dalvik can be made available for the N9 that should help overcome any lingering buyer reticence with regard to "Gr[ea]y market" imports into the US... anyone have news on Alien Dalvik, or is it just vapourware?

Re: What's wrong with the USA?

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Originally Posted by Crashdamage (Post 1066971)

The N9 is clearly supposed to fail. They'll build a minimal number released in limited areas with minimal promotion and support. Then Elop and his honchos can use it's pre-ordained failure as more justification for sellling out to MS and WP7. I can hear him now..."Well, we built a really nice MeeGo phone but it failed miserably to generate buzz and sales. Obviously no one cares about MeeGo."

IOW Elop is only releasing the N9 to build justificatiion to abandon MeeGo entirely. An intentional fail inspite of nice hardware and a great OS. Because MeeGo - aka Linux - is a mortal enemy to Elop, Ballmer, M$ - and of course WP7.

The N9 is released in all parts of the world where Nokia is large. You know that it's only a couple of months since Symbian was the largest smartphone OS, by far. Still they were nowhere to be seen in the US. The world hasnt really changed all that much since then, only Android becoming popular world wide, thanks to Samsung.

People like you make me glad the N9 wont be seen in the US.