vims | # 1 | 2007-11-28, 09:28 | Report

Nokia Germany conntacted me that the n810 is allready shipping here.



So I looked arround in the shops a bit:
The only shop I've found the n810 so far is amazon.de:

429,00 € thats f*ckin 630$ !!!



am I wrong or didn't I read about the n810 costing 400 to 430 $ in the us?!

Does anybody know about other european country-prices for the n810 ?

ragnar | # 2 | 2007-11-28, 09:36 | Report

Yes, it's slightly even more expensive in Finland (~€450). But I'm not sure if that's really news. Virtually all tech. items cost the same in € as they do in $ - take any Apple product for instance. Of course on some terms it gets more absurd the weaker the dollar is getting in comparison to the euro...

peterjb31 | # 3 | 2007-11-28, 09:39 | Report

Its always more expensive in Europe due to taxation and other bunk though companies always seem to go for a higher rice as well.

maxilogan | # 4 | 2007-11-28, 09:39 | Report

Yes. Once the Euro will be weaker than the dollar we'll get price converted as the actual rate. Now we have parity Euro/dollar parity drives me mad.

gbuergisser | # 5 | 2007-11-28, 10:00 | Report

There was a short note about the N810 in a Swiss magazine two weeks ago. They wrote it would be available for about 750 Swiss francs, which is about 460 Euros (which is about 680 US$)!

I'm also thinking about buying the N810 in the US by a friend who will come to Switzerland for Christmas.

fpp | # 6 | 2007-11-28, 10:08 | Report

At launch the 770 was 349€, the N800 399€, now the N810 is 4x9€... it's marketing logic at work here, not currency rates. Europeans will pay this, Americans will pay that.

The only notable, recent exception is Asus with its EEE PC, which is 399$ in the US and 299€ in Europe.

ragnar | # 7 | 2007-11-28, 11:46 | Report

You can also think about it in a way that the total costs of making the device haven't gone down, the American dollar has just gotten a lot weaker in the last year. Since even the current price in dollars is sensitively high, you cannot really increase the price in dollars.

fpp | # 8 | 2007-11-28, 14:09 | Report

By this you mean that European buyers are effectively subsidising American ones ? :-)

ragnar | # 9 | 2007-11-28, 14:35 | Report

... Well, yes. But in this case it's not really Nokia specific. For instance iPod classic is 249$ whilst being 268€ in Finland. I'm pretty sure the market mechanics are actually pretty complicated in this issue. What is the value of money etc. ... Your soul.

fpp | # 10 | 2007-11-28, 14:48 | Report

My soul ? Not to worry, I sold that loooong ago :-)