I posted this in another thread; but I think most the US people are interested...

http://www.nokiausa.com/find-product...#/main/landing

Is the link to the N900 page.

Notify me button is broken. Chatted with a Rep online, said it was being launched for preorder at end of week. ;-D

Nathan.

This is the link:
http://www.nokiausa.com/find-product...#/main/landing

OK, but is it gonna be on T-Mobile in USA? No official word yet...

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...600#post320600
http://www.mobilecityonline.com/wire...d=25125&view=3

ATT freq?!?!

anyone going to pre-order? im so tempted. lol

Since, AFAIK, there have been no FCC test docs sighted for a N900/RX-51 with AT&T 3g bands...I wouldn't hold my breath on that one. Most likely it's an error caused by cut-n-paste and will be corrected down the road to reflect the tmo 3g bands that the device (as reported via the FCC docs) actually has.

Nothing announced at Nokia World about any N900 in USA - with T-Mobile?

Again Nokia is out of tracks in USA. If it does not get a carrier, the devices are way to expensive and unaffordable, so they are not popular...

After making some calls to my Nokia distributor contacts, I don't think N900 is set to release in most countries in Australasia either. WTF??

So this is for Europe mainly and limited US release or what?

I didn't see any announcements specific to t-mobile in the U.S. carrying the device via subsidy, though being here in the U.S. I might have missed something. However, I don't see how Nokia would include the 1700 band on the device and not have T-mobile in mind. If their plan was to sell them in the U.S. as an unlocked-only option, the AT&T bands would have been a much better choice given the size of the market in terms of overall customers in both the U.S. and Canada using 850/1900.

Nokia is seriously trying to change the landscape of locked phones in the US. That is one of the biggest reasons it is losing market share in the US big time. Nokia should understand that it is a lost cause because the americans really dont care about unlocked phones. I come from India and understand the advantage of locked phones and cheap pre-paid plans. Unfortunately most americans will not understand that because they have been always using locked phones from the beginning. For them it is ridiculous to spend more than 300$ on a phone. Although they do spend more than any unlocked plan + data plan combo compared to a locked phone which is subsidized by the carrier.

I really hope the FCC does something about that..... lets see. I had hope that n900 would come to the t-mobile but doesn't look so.

I guess i have to buy it unlocked.

even Ray Charles can see this is for TMobile. Only they have a network in the US that uses that frequency. No one else at this time.

For those that keep debating whether the N900 will or will not be available from T-MO USA, the specs for 3G, from the Nokia web site are this:

Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 900/1700/2100

WCDMA is the 3G part and the only carrier at the moment that uses 1700/2100 for 3G is T-MO USA. So there really can't be any other answer than yes, it will be on T-MO USA. The question is WHEN will it be available, not IF it will be available.

Most 3G technologies require 2 bands, 1 for upload and 1 for download. In most EU countries, the band pairing is typically 1900/2100, so again, from the tech specs, the initial release does not appear to be optimized for dual band non-US 3G. In the case of T-MO US, 1700 is the upload band, 2100 is the download band. It is quite possible to have single band 3G, in that case it is most often 2100. So, I assume that at least for the phones that were seen at Nokia World, they were probably using T-Mobile Germany, and the 2100 band for 3G.

Side comment. The 1700/2100 will actually be expanding, soon to be in the "Americas" in general, i.e. Canada, Mexico, Chile, Colombia. I believe that Japan also has this frequency and will begin using it at some point.

One final point on the T-Mobile discussion overall, if you count all of T-Mobile's subscriber base worldwide, they have over 150 Million subscribers, so, not a bad pool of users to focus on for the initial release of the N900. Go T-Mobile!