yea its kind of sad to me that they don't have a release date .. i for one know they are under pressure though don't care how big a company is when you have thousands of people anticipating a device they payed near 700 for you got to get it right....
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No mention of any delivery date. Only the confirm by 11/13/09, which is likely just 2 months after the order. "Trying to obtain" seems a little strange too, since the order page clearly said it was a pre-order.
For all cases of 'that one'. I'm fairly certain most of the (related and unrelated) internet has been linked to from this thread at this point, including the parts that don't yet exist.
I guess we all just have to wait for $RANDOM_DATE when the phone gets released to see which parts of the interwebs were correct...
Yes, I know that but he asked a specific question which required a specific answer...
Yes, I know that but he asked a specific question which required a specific answer...
Since when is giving a specific answer the correct response when discussing the N900? I thought it was a requirement to be as vague as possible, especially when the question is even remotely related to the release date.
Since when is giving a specific answer the correct response when discussing the N900? I thought it was a requirement to be as vague as possible, especially when the question is even remotely related to the release date.
Because I decided to not be ornery for a minute, but now since you reminded me, I go back to...
'Yes we have that one, the other ones, and the ones that haven't been invented yet, the websites that haven't been setup yet, as well as all the other ones in the foreseeable future, so please take the link and go refresh it a thousand times in anticipation of the shipping date updating to say " October 15th" on it'