Nokia N8 Pre-Ordre starts today USA

I am so tired of hearing that crap.

The *only* reason Nokia increased their Symbian marketshare is because they're shoving Symbian on to just about everything, and giving phones away.
 
Not sure if this should be the thread, but can we keep a best price thread going like with the N900 during preorder? My guess is as jobber99 mentioned, Dell or Amazon and probably Newegg will probably be one of the places to get it below retail. Also wouldn't be surprised if one of the retailers does a Black Friday sale or something with it, but I don't think I want to wait that long.
 
Besides, you don't want to buy this directly from Nokia, at least not in the U.S. You'll have a hell of a time if you do, if/when you want to return it. Buying and returning is the only option here, since you can't trial Nokia phones here at retailers. Online retailers with good return policies are key.

Amazon or Dell have pretty good, no questions asked, return policies. If you buy it from Nokia USA, they'll pass you off to a support line overseas, then ask you to ship away your phone for repair. If I want a return, no, I just want my money back, thanks.
 
These comments do not surprise me. I was also surprised the price was this high, and I can only hope and suppose it is the introductory price deliberately placed high because they don't want to run into an Apple-like delay in shipping.

I really want to like Nokia. I had a couple of E71-2 that, in their day, were just awesome. I don't know what's up right now, though, just a couple of years later. Nokia do not seem to be firing on all cylinders.

Hope it works out, though. I am all for unbranded, unlocked excellence.
 
Lol, look at Nokia's price for the UK.

Unsubsidized it costs ?429, that means it is more expensive than the iPhone unsubsidized in the UK.

What idiots.
 
Go back to Eldar's preview of the N900 and re-read it... it's surprisingly prescient in many ways (especially since it was before his spat with Nokia created a visible bias). It marks Android proliferation in 2010, SE's continued floundering and the pursuit of Nokia and Samsung to vertical integration with their linux OS and services. His prediction wrt Nokia was the movement of Maemo in place of Symbian and Symbian taking the place of s40. This was before the joint venture with Intel, which likely changed some things but he was predicting 2011 for proliferation of Maemo handsets. Given that we're told to expect a MeeGo 'milestone' on or around Nokia World, it sounds like they're still on track.

So the short answer: Maemo/MeeGo is what Nokia has been working on. The N8 is just another evolutionary rung in the 5800/N97 lineage keeping pace until then.
 
All companies do that Samsung, SE, Motorola with Android ( you have cheap version and very expansive one) so what is you point?
I almost switch to Android, Samsung Galaxy is a best phone right now but lacks few things that I need (Camera/Video recorder and HDMI), so N8 is what suits me
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to me, i don't have any problems with symbian--other than the lack of mainstream apps (i.e. you won't get "words with friends" for example on symbian). the reason i'm lusting after this phone is that 12mp camera with xenon flash

if HTC Schubert/Mozart's camera is any good (specs-wise, 12mp w/ xenon--but we don't know if optics are any good) then we can assume those windows phones won't go for much more than $549-599 unsubsidized, might as well jump on that bandwagon
 
Disagree on Dell - they have a cr@ppy return policy - the only reason I'm still stuck with my @#$% n97 mini. I got it for ~$400 + S/H from them. 2 days later I was so fed up I wanted to send it back. I contacted them only to find out that yes, I can return it, but I would still pay for return shipping and restocking fee, which would sum up to ~$100... So, $100 to return it - I'll pass...

Had good experience with Amazon returns so far, so would highly recommend them instead.
 
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