EspeonEefi | # 10021 | 2011-10-25, 01:14 | Report

I thought I'd post this here since it's more likely that people who want an N9 will see it here. I have a single new black 16 GB N9 that I'm looking to sell, preferably within the U.S.

More details are in my post in the community purchase thread. Anyone who's interested can email n9forsale@eep.dnsalias.org for further information.

For those who already saw my other post, sorry for the spam. It was a bit too late when I realized that this central thread would probably be a better audience for this than the peripheral one.

smegheadz | # 10022 | 2011-10-25, 01:23 | Report

@danramos
don't really care if you do or don't trust them. i was offering you a suggestion in determining how trustworthy they are. actually i was offering others who may be reading advice also. why is everything so dramatic and have to be argued like it's a personal attack? people just offered you advice on them when you asked.
end of topic for me.

gerbick | # 10023 | 2011-10-25, 02:00 | Report

I know you guys wanna gang up on danramos; but there's a point in there that's being overlooked.

The well-known establishments have yet to obtain the Nokia N9 whereas second, third and fourth tier merchants have it in stock. It's caught me off-guard because I've been trying to help folks get them in the Community Purchase thread (search for it, I can't be arsed to find it right now) and I can find brick and mortar shops that I've gone to for like accessories or skipped past them until they were a last resort in my travels in the past...

But Amazon? Buy.com? Frys? Not there yet. That's downright alarming. And yeah... not everybody has connections in different countries or are willing to toss major bucks to a relative unknown.

It's not a personal attack. I just think that folks need to think some things out. If it works for you, great.

shallimus | # 10024 | 2011-10-25, 03:28 | Report

Well, either way, I've thrown best part of $1000 at Negri today, so I'd better receive a black N9 64GB. Payment is via Google Checkout, so I'm not too nervous. Of course Canada Revenue & Customs and Fedex and everyone will take a bite out of me, but eff it: I'm done waiting.

Once I receive mine, I'll post back. At that point, maybe they'll have some stock of the pink one that danramos is clearly impatient to get

Finally: have you just bought the N9 and need to feel reassured that you made the right choice (i.e. shouldn't have waited for the Nokia World 'exciting' WP7 'surprise' announcements)?

If this describes you, you should probably go and read some of the comments on this article. It cheered me up immensely. I'm assuming that the majority of the commenters there still live in their parents' basement and are in a commited relationship with their XBox 360 (Warning: contains dangerous levels of FUD and Microsoft)

As far as I'm concerned, anyone who falls in love with the N9 but thinks it's just missing WP7... deserves WP7.

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gerbick | # 10025 | 2011-10-25, 04:28 | Report

I came from WP7, before that Android, before that iOS. And I can say that the functionality afforded to me via Harmattan is on par with WP7. They both swipe/gesture heavy UI's, but WP7 is a bit more refined in a few areas - namely how once I synced my Google Mail account with all of my contacts, I didn't have to open up/setup Mail for Exchange to grab the contacts separate from the mail like I did on the N9.

Minor difference. But on Android, it was rather seamless - big "no duh" moment there, I know - but the experience was better there. On iOS - forget about it.

WP7 isn't as bad as folks around here say. It's a phone for consumers that want a smartphone that has really dumb controls. Android is a smartphone that can be as complex or simple as you decide - I'm a custom ROM tweaking chump, most are not.

But it's seriously not for the folks here. Harmattan is quite intelligent. In fact, I'd say it's rather sharp, brilliant even. But still not fully fleshed out. Not yet.

And that's a damn shame. And worse... WP7 will only benefit from the Nokia engineers and the N9 won't get its chance.

People will buy what they think fits their workflow. WP7 fit mine somewhat closely, but I felt limited. N9, I'm learning how it fits into my workflow.

And so far, it's fitting pretty damn nicely...

SamGan | # 10026 | 2011-10-25, 04:45 | Report

S gerbick, why has WP7 such a low penetration in the U.S.? Too many Microsoft haters? Do you think slapping a Nokia brand on it will make any difference?

shallimus | # 10027 | 2011-10-25, 04:55 | Report

Good post, with many reasonable points. I agree that the reality of day-to-day use of WP7 is probably not the ghoulish nightmare that I and others like to imagine it as. It has many, many flaws - which I enjoy discussing simply because I am ideologically opposed to it and everything I see in its life support machinery.

Of course many of us have taken the events of February rather personally, and that sometimes leads to hyperbole and unprovoked attacks (at least on my part, anyway). We all know that these things are strongly political here. Perhaps it's not so bad as an OS (meh) but what it represents is not such an easy pill to choke down.

So yep, I'm suspecting there's a decent subset of the device-wielding world population who could be adequately happy with WP7. It's not astounding, but as a product it probably gets a passing grade. No gold star though.

OK - this actually cheered me up even more than my WP7-based schadenfreude, because this is actual Good News.

I'm glad to hear it's a good fit for you.

ysss | # 10028 | 2011-10-25, 04:57 | Report

Yes.

If you slap an anchor to a kite, it will be able to lift an elephant up to penetrate the sky.

danramos | # 10029 | 2011-10-25, 05:16 | Report

Taking one for the team. Admirable. I look forward to hearing your report. At least SOMEONE is effectively addressing my concerns about whether they're trustworthy--although you're taking a HUGE risk doing it that way. Just the same, good luck--I hope this pans out positive.. I'm sure they'll make a TON of money just on this thread alone, if they turn out to be genuine.

Your care is hardly relevant or necessary--your suggestion for determining how trustworthy they are was, itself, untrustworthy. Why do you think that site is trustworthy? Because it has "ratings" in the domain name? I bet I can spin up a domain name with "trust" or "ratings" in the title and domain name--but that hardly makes it an authoritative or trustworthy site. Can you explain to me (without your ironic melodrama) why these sites I've never heard of are trustworthy without turning on me with your (again, ironic) attacks as a way to dismiss my concerns?

I don't think I'm asking too much to tell me why a site I've never heard of.. validates another site I've never heard of. I'm sure many snake oil salesmen used similar real-world tactics to dismiss people who were skeptical of their medical effectiveness and claims.

gerbick | # 10030 | 2011-10-25, 05:23 | Report

Honestly? I really don't know. Maybe because Microsoft isn't seen as a "cool" company whereas Sony, Apple and Samsung are seen as cool.

WP7 is a weird, and a very hard sale that's not being sold anywhere in massive numbers. It's an oddball OS that people think looks childish at first. And it's too closely related to the failed Zune... which, while I loved mine, people shunned it for the simpler, more liable to break iPod.

And no... I think slapping a Nokia label on it will not bolster WP7 sales. In fact, in the US, Nokia has been relegated to those cheap flip phones that grandmas still like. Nokia's presence in North America is sorely lacking and spiraled into a depressing mess. I don't see Nokia needing WP7 as much as WP7 needs Nokia.

But that's my opinion. Take it with a grain of salt.

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