'minor' update. After calling Nokia friday by phone (they promised to call me back) and used the contact formular to call me back too, I get today ... no answer. After trying the old and new discount code ... none works.

And I can't ask Maemo team:
'If you have further questions please contact the customer care channel of your shop.'

Usual or disaster? Don't know. But now, I'm really a bit disappointed how this all can be happen Before I only pushed a bit because I was confident and euphoric.

Hmm... I bet someone from Nokia and maybe the Maemo team will be at CES in LasVegas.

It would be nice if some of the community bloggers would stop by the Nokia/Maemo booth and ask them what is going on.
I know there is an issue with there being no US option nor information, and if I'm not mistaken there is some issues with the German shop.

Also has any of the Canadian folks gotten any further word on using your codes?

-Shawn

I've written the German shop team as well, using the form, and have no answer back yet - as it stands, the shop reports the device as being in stock, but none of the German codes work, neither new nor old. The phone support hotline won't pick up.

No news from Canada.

I'm still hoping they'll announce some sort of North American version at CES (WiMAX finally), and USA and Canadian developers will get access to whatever that might be. Hopefully not a gutted N810 (as in the style of several bastardized phones that get dumped on N Am). Time will tell; I'm still excited and optimistic.

France

typo: hurry = hooray ... sorry if my last post was misleading ...

BTW: yep i will have the AZERTY keyboard ... that will be fun

Well it seems that France is not much better than other countries... The discount code DID work for me. I ordered happily the N810 on friday. I received the tracking information, and found out that when the package was almost delivered Nokia called UPS and cancelled the shipment. And even with several calls to Nokia I have not been able to know WHY the order was cancelled.... They just promised me to call me back "in the following days because of a small problem".

Anybody else got a similar experience?

Well, as far as I'm concerned, this program is still defunct. Not only are the US Codes not active, but there was no mention of us in the email that we got. Still useless and annoying as crap.

I mean, really? There's 2 retail outlets in the US that are owned by Nokia that currently stock the N810. Out of the 500, obviously a small fraction are in the States, how hard could it really be to organize the use of our codes through the Flagship stores?

This is the current status for mine (Ordered from Switzerland)
08 janv. 2008 10:30 Zurich Consignment Received At Transit Point
08 janv. 2008 09:39 Zurich Import Received
07 janv. 2008 19:53 Brussels Hub Consignment Received At Transit Point
07 janv. 2008 19:53 Brussels Hub Consignment Passed Through Transit Point
07 janv. 2008 18:16 Liege Shipped From Originating Depot
07 janv. 2008 05:24 Zurich Released From Customs

I don't really understand the first line, 5:24 where it seems the package was in ZH (Switzerland)...

Update for people from Germany:
I contacted Nokia-Club instead of Nokia Shop in Germany because my phone doesn't accept tone dialing atm, which is needed to go to the Nokia Shop (1=Club, 2=Shop, default=Club).

Anyway, a very friendly person helped me a lot to get some informations and he called his colleagues at the Nokia shop. After some minutes he was back and told me, that his colleague from Nokia Shop knows about Maemo and the 500 pieces developer discount, but it's unsure when the discount code will be activated in Germany and it's even unsure if this promotion/developer program from Maemo will be ever accepted in Germany.

... I'm feeling speechless

I'm at CES and my booth (Magellan GPS) is near Planet Nokia, I'll stop in today and see if anyone has answers. Stay tuned.