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The N95 selling well and High Street demand met

12 replies · 26,679 views · Started 18 April 2007

slitchfield 18 Apr 2007, 17:14

Interesting, although perhaps not surprising, to see that the Nokia N95 is now the Carphone Warehouse's top selling device, with over 50,000 sales forecast in the first month alone. Nokia UK say that all channels have had enough stock and that the demand has been met.

Read on in the full article.

ajck 19 Apr 2007, 10:39

Good news. The N95 is a great device that trumps all others (currently) and deserves to succeed. Great to see N95 adverts everywhere I go/look currently too. Better than seeing that Windows Mobile crap advertised 😉

ajck 19 Apr 2007, 17:08

>�400

If you insist on buying it independently 😉

It's free on contract for goodness sake!

neilhoskins 19 Apr 2007, 21:00

"Free"? Hardly: they get their money back over the period of the exorbitant contract. I could just as easily get it on a credit card and make monthly repayments. Plus it's simlocked to a particular provider and has VoIP disabled. No thanks; I've never bought a simlocked phone and don't intend to start now.

neilhoskins 20 Apr 2007, 11:59

nj7: 25-30% eh? That's interesting; I was going to post to ask if anybody had a handle on what we might expect. If you're right, that would take us to around the �400 mark by September? They may have sorted out the firmware glitches by then, too.

ajck 20 Apr 2007, 12:37

> Plus it's simlocked to a particular provider and has VoIP disabled.

> Only losers buy operator-crippled phones.

Hmm, methinks you two need to look a bit farther. Meanwhile I'm on TMobile 12 month contract giving me everything I want for a great price including unlimited internet, with nothing disabled. Of course the ops make their money back, but doesn't mean you can't still get a great deal. Or why not get the plan you want with another free phone you can flog for a good price on Ebay, then offset what you earn against the cost of an independent N95? That's what I did last time, worked great.

neilhoskins 20 Apr 2007, 13:17

OK, ajck, I'm old enough and ugly enough to be open-minded about these things and I'm constantly changing utilities suppliers, etc, so let's have a look. I currently spend, I reckon, a maximum of �10 per month on my T-mobile prepay plan. The cheapest T-Mobile pay monthly plan that would suit me is �22.50 per month for 18 months and �230 for the handset. I would easily stay within their monthly allowance so that's only an extra �12-50 per month for 18 months plus the handset = �455. So in a sense you've got me: I could effectively get my hands on one now for an outlay of �230 and effectively pay the rest on HP over 18 months, paying a total of only �455 for the handset.

I'd still prefer not to be locked into a contract, though. For example, T-mobile are the best choice currently because of their open-minded attitude to data costs. I mean - jeez - other operators' websites are still quoting tariffs in terms of how many hundred "texts" I can send in a month; WTF would I want to do that for? If you do manage - after an hour of digging around their crappy websites - to find out how much they charge for data, it's usually completely exorbitant. But hang on - what if, halfway through my 18 months, somebody wakes up at Vodafone and they come up with a sensible tariff there? At the moment, I can just walk away from my prepay any time I like and switch.

Then there's the fact that you're walking around with an emasculated thing in your pocket <pulls face>.

No, I concede that the issue is not black and white. A chaq'un son gout, as they say here in Buckinghamshire; but on the whole I'll stick to my plan of waiting for the price of an unlocked handset to fall. If they haven't done so by September, though...