AT&T Cancels X7?

If I'm not mistaken, that data option no longer exists. Data is no longer classified into featurephone and smart phone subsets; all data is charged the same.

$15 for 200 mb; $25 for 2GB, with no option for unlimited data. Anything over your limit, AT&T charges extra. Although Verizon still has some unlimited data options for Droids and their new iPhone, they're moving to the 'data is data' model as well. It's what killed the Microsoft Kin.

One of the reasons they're likely doing this is to migrate people onto smart phones, from feature phones. If a customer makes the calculation that they're paying for the same data plan anyway, then why NOT get the smart phone over the, say, LG feature phone. And that's when they get you with MORE charges and fees....

I knew someone that worked for a carrier, and their internal metric which they measure employee performance by is, did Sales Employee X get the customer into the $100+ per month plan level? That's their magic number.
 
I think N9 in the Fall is optimistic.

If Meego is still in the working out bugs stage, and Nokia hasn't nailed down the UI (!!!) I can't see how it'll ship this year.

Oh, the announcement and a video may be a 2011 event, per Elop, but I suspect you won't see that puppy ship until 2012.

If things stay as they are, that is, and company strategy doesn't veer in another direction...and hopefully the Mayans are also wrong, because I really, really want to see Christopher Nolan directing Anne Hathaway as Catwoman opposite Bale's Batman (announced officially today!!!).

We're one month into 2011 and it's looking like another dog of a year for Espoo.
 
Someone made the good point on mynokiablog that why would AT&T and Nokia just have extended the Calling All Innovators unless they were still planning to announce something on Symbian or prepping for a Meego device.. but still, this is AT&T so who knows. :)
 
Unless things have changed or will change, N9 is likely to ship in Q2. Not only my guess, btw. As for how that could be possible given the state of vanilla Meego - I don't know. Perhaps they are building it more on Harmattan after all? But, the situation is pretty dynamic/volatile so who knows.

Btw2, people who have seen the UI are liking it.

People who have seen the one coming after N9 (likely in H2 2011) are liking it even more.
 
If the N9 doesn't ship this year shouldn't Nokia scrap it completely? The specs are relevant right now, but things change so quickly in one year. I'm not buying into dual-core processors being a necessity just yet but if it isn't coming out until next year it had better have a newer processor.
 
This would be sad, but I wouldn't put it past AT&T.

I was on the verge of getting the X7, even at the cost of moving from my unlimited $15 medianet plan with my icky 6650 to tje 2GB $25 plan.

Maybe I'm just a glutton for punishment? :)
 
I think it will ship but only as a token experiment. My bet is that nokia scraps Meego as their high end solution. we will find out in a few weeks.
 
Interesting, but it's always a little sad reading Nokia-fan blogs these days. It's equal parts gloom and hopeful optimism that change and better days are just around the next corner, but boy, there sure seem to be a lot of corners.
 
MWC is going to be telling. If there's no N9 shown off there, how can it possibly ship this year, forget Q2.

Why wouldn't the company show off their product on such a big world stage? If Meego doesn't have a presence there, then...well I really don't know what, but it's not really optimistic.
 
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