who is going to tell ALL of the n00bs on this forum, who do not know anything about linux/maemo/programming, including me that is, that the N900 is only 65% cool when you are a 'normal user'.
Please make a thread and tell us because i will get disappointed when it arrives on my doorstep otherwise.
While I would like to see a US nationwide mainstream media blitz like Verizon is doing for Droid, it seems that was never something Nokia envisioned for the N900. I think they were caught a little by surprise at the high level of enthusiasm for this product. But Nokia clearly see the N900 as a stepping stone.
US media blitz? I'd settle for a US retail presence. People here seem to think that T-Mobile will be carrying the phone in the US. At the moment, their website returns "No Results Found" when searching for the N900. No press releases, no preorders, no nothing.
According to the Nokia US website, there are exactly two Nokia Stores in the entire US. Those two stores are the only places where Nokia suggest the N900 can be purchased (when clicking "Where to Buy"). The closest store is about as far from me as London is from Paris.
So I did my own search for an N900 advertised for sale or preorder at any of the major US retailers. The following report no hits searching for "N900" on their websites: Best Buy, CompUSA, Radio Shack, Staples, Office Depot, Wal-Mart, Target, Costco, Sears, Kmart, and Sam's Club.
The N900 may do great in Europe but as things stand now it's dead in the States.
Because iPhone was a completely NEW, never seen, device.
It was a big hype with the young customers & even the business & normal customers. EVERYONE wanted one & EVERYONE got one.
I didn't, and I didn't get one. The phone I wanted at that point was the N82, and I got it. First time I ever bought a sim-free unlocked phone.
I did my own search for an N900 advertised for sale or preorder at any of the major US retailers. The following report no hits searching for "N900" on their websites: Best Buy, CompUSA, Radio Shack, Staples, Office Depot, Wal-Mart, Target, Costco, Sears, Kmart, and Sam's Club.
You would've gotten the same results searching those sites for a Moto Razr when it was released. Doesn't mean much.
But I do agree with your basic point that Nokia is missing in action in the US.
Developers are ditching Apple already because of their strict policies.
Example, that guy who made the Facebook app for AppStore.
I hope Nokia won't be doing the same or else the N900 will be a big failure due to lack of interest from the developers.
It's already 2 years behind in number of apps compare to the Appstore.
Yes, and if you read Joe hewitt's Twitter he said that for ever developer that leaves iPhone app dev because of apple's policies 1,000 more will join. It's an unstoppable train.
Actually a great commercial would be to point out the amount of redundant applications on the iPhone market and how most of them don't make developers any money. =P
Like take there "there's an app for that commercials" and go "fart app, fart app, beer drinking app, rss feed app for this one site, rss feed app for this other site" =P
Whether or not you agree with apple's iPhone app policies they do an amazing job with their SDK and developer support. I'm a web developer and I taught myself ObjectiveC/CocoaTouch with in the span of 4 weeks.
I don't really see the same coddling of developers with Nokia.
So I did my own search for an N900 advertised for sale or preorder at any of the major US retailers. The following report no hits searching for "N900" on their websites: Best Buy, CompUSA, Radio Shack, Staples, Office Depot, Wal-Mart, Target, Costco, Sears, Kmart, and Sam's Club.
The N900 may do great in Europe but as things stand now it's dead in the States.
Until it's subsidized you're not going to see it in any of those locations.
