The good news is that Nokia Spain now has the 5800 up for pre-order
http://tienda.nokia.es/nokia-es/product.aspx?sku=3889898&culture=es-ES
The bad news is that nokia have BADLY missed their promised price of €279 (Spanish VAT @16% makes that €320.85).
IMHO at €429 the 5800 is likely going to be savaged by the iPhone.
(That is unless that €429 is the price with a Comes with Music subscription but I can't see anything on the page that says it does)
Saw this, and thought 'Oh dear'.
Its really a case of shooting themselves in the foot. I was going to get one to play around with, but I think I'll hold off now.
So far nothing Nokia has released is looking as good as my E66, having returned a N85.
bartmanekul wrote:Saw this, and thought 'Oh dear'.Its really a case of shooting themselves in the foot. I was going to get one to play around with, but I think I'll hold off now.
So far nothing Nokia has released is looking as good as my E66, having returned a N85.
I was REALLY looking forward to ditching my current WM Smartphone and getting a 5800, but absolutely not at that price.
The 5800 is now up on the Italian nokia site for �429
http://www.nokiashop.it/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/Nokiashop-B2C-Site/it_IT/-/EUR/ViewStandardCatalog-Browse;pgid=RbXue1gQbnM000EVaKd0zAKf0000QLlpu9QG?CatalogCategoryID=7nisEAoDiLgAAAELGScabhnq
Anyone with contacts at Nokia like to ask them (on the record) wtf happened to �279+taxes ?
Tzar2 (or it might have been Rafe) thinks its going to come down to about that after christmas, but tbh I cant see it happening.
I always thought that the price was too low for something with that hardware. Even the Nokia non touchscreen phones are a lot more than that.
My E66 for example - �319 - 377.26 Euros. Or, �271 without VAT - 319 Euros.
And thats very similar - GPS, wifi, bluetooth, 3.2 cam etc.
Except its not dual LED, its screen is much smaller, and not touch, and lets not forget comes with music.
So, a touchscreen phone with better hardware and the comes with music service for 40 Euros less??
How Nokia ever thought they were going to do it at that price I dont know. Perhaps they didnt?
There was something drastically wrong with that price in the first place. Something smells here IMO.
Nokia's shop say that the 5800 comes with a �100 voucher for the Nokia music store. This non-voluntary bonus birngs the phone price back to roughly �279 w/o tax.
Not really. I just want the device and my own music. A voucher for something I dont want/need does not bring the handset price down to what they said it would.
bartmanekul wrote:Not really. I just want the device and my own music. A voucher for something I dont want/need does not bring the handset price down to what they said it would.
I guess there is a limited supply and thus they want to make it exclusive, also reducing grey import/export to other countries. Taking 1 or 2 months slow introduction in limited countries will in case post-release firmware troubles limit the number of clients and prevent n95-ish trouble. Plenty of reasons to think off.
Yet, like you I am getting restless about the 5800 and its successors!
castellar wrote:Nokia's shop say that the 5800 comes with a �100 voucher for the Nokia music store. This non-voluntary bonus birngs the phone price back to roughly �279 w/o tax.
Ah thanks for that info, hopefully that means that the CWM version should come in at around the same price as well.