And US is kind of tapped out already with 96%. US Market is over, Nokia knows it lost, on to greener pastures.
Lost in US maybe but not in rest of world. Oh well only if they really are stupid enought to think WP7 is right in all countrys cause then they will for sure FAIL
Actually MicroNokia is PISSING on the Linux/Meego community in the US!!! This is a way to kill opensource in the US! and in the long run also european
and I think thats is ****ing most stupid thing they done so far
Still most to blame is Microsoft and possibly the carriers in the US
I hope US people fight this cause as an european I am on the openSource community in all countrys.
I actually tend to agree with you. But, Nokia has very little to do with this I think. The carriers in the US don't want the N9 - period. And if the carriers say jump, the entire population asks how high, and there is nothing Nokia can do about it. Sad but true. Only one man has the guts to face them and show them the finger, and that is Steve Jobs.
Forgot one thing. Symbian had more than 50% market share even though they had no share to speak of in the US. Besides, Amazon is sure to sell the N9 sooner rather than later. Already in Germany: http://www.amazon.de/Nokia-Smartphon...f=pd_rhf_p_t_1
This may be a somewhat arcane concern and maybe nobody cares anymore but does the VKB on the N9 have a ctrl key? Perhaps I missed it but I didn't notice it in these videos. Maybe shown elsewhere. For what its worth the N950 has one. Checked out a Droid 3 and you have to press the volume key to get a ctrl character which is a pain and rather disappointing given it's has a nice hwkb. Also the up and coming Samsung SGH I927 doesn't seem to have one on the HWKB either...
I would rant about how each and every step around the Nokia N9 has been undercut by the current board of directors and CEO. From the N9 announcement, then immediately thereafter the Sea Ray "leak".
I could talk about how delusional the board of directors are if they think that Windows Phone 7 is going to "save them"... or how delusional anybody else is if they think Maemo/MeeGo will save Nokia.
I could rant in an egocentric, typically American way about how we got potentially shafted over a phone that nobody invariably would care about - just the fans, just the FOSS nerds, just us TMO dwellers that happen to also be American.
What I will say though... limited releases from Nokia are nothing new. But this one, strange. Let's just leave it at that.
I actually tend to agree with you. But, Nokia has very little to do with this I think.
Actually... I have to disagree fully with you. If Nokia USA was able to still accept and process orders, instead of closing up and leaving their sales to Amazon... then Nokia would have still had a process to accept payments, distribute the N9 just as they had with with Nokia N9.
Very little to do with the US cellphone carriers. They've not sold subsidized N-series phones since the crippled N73 by AT&T. But Nokia's decision to shut down Nokia USA and Nokia Canada means that the phone invariably will not be distributed by Nokia directly, nor via US carrier. That's how it's been here in this North American market.
But Nokia is at fault. They should have better sales distribution avenues and they do not.
Dsmobile from mobile-review forums did say that there is actually white version of N9, but there's just some prototypes used by workers.
Reading these announcements i doubt one of Nokia's main priorities will be to launch new color for N9 in the future.... we might see white Sea Ray.
Someone made the point that they're likely to release colors that mach their accessories http://europe.nokia.com/find-product...headset-bh-111
But probably only for Sea-ray... frackzzzzz...
I'm going to go massacre Elop now, farewell all.
