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Nokia Lets You Pre-Order Anything

By The Guru on September 13, 2009

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Quickly after the announcements earlier this month, Nokia began taking pre-orders for most all of its new products, in various countries. You can now pre-order the Nokia N97 Mini, Nokia N900, Nokia Booklet 3G, Nokia N86 NAM, and others online. This supposedly guarantees you one of the first units to begin shipping. Here’s the list of links, in case you’re interested:

Nokia N900 – NokiaUSA Nokia UK

Nokia N97 Mini – Vodafone UK

Nokia Booklet 3G – Nokia Italy

Nokia N86 NAM – Nokia USA Amazon

You can also call the Nokia Flagship store in either Chicago or New York and asked to be put on their waiting list for most of these hot new handsets. They’ll take your name and phone number, and call you when they get them in stock.

It definitely seems as though Nokia is working hard to improve the historically long lag time between when a device is announced and when it is actually available for consumers to purchase. As part of this, the company has increasingly been encouraging pre-orders. When you pre-order a device, you hand over your credit card details, and Nokia basically hangs onto those until the device is ready to ship. You are basically (normally) guaranteed one of the first units to ship, without having to re-confirm your purchase. Often, these pre-order deals will include some sort of extra incentive, such as a discounted price or an included Bluetooth headset or other such accessory.

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  • Juan

    What about E72??

  • Juan

    What about E72??

  • Kemper

    Yeah, what about the E72? Q3 will be over in two weeks, and as of yet we can’t even pre-order it yet. Something wrong?

    These lag times do suck pretty badly… First waited for ages for the N97, which was then pretty disappointing, now waiting to choose between the E72 and the N900.

    It all made me stay with my N82 longer than with any other phone I’ve owned. Still like it though.

  • Kemper

    Yeah, what about the E72? Q3 will be over in two weeks, and as of yet we can’t even pre-order it yet. Something wrong?

    These lag times do suck pretty badly… First waited for ages for the N97, which was then pretty disappointing, now waiting to choose between the E72 and the N900.

    It all made me stay with my N82 longer than with any other phone I’ve owned. Still like it though.

  • http://christof.damian.net/ Christof Damian

    I wonder if the “pre-order” is like the one for the N79 Active in Germany. There they pushed back the release date six times in four months and finally removed it completely from the on-line store.

  • http://christof.damian.net/ Christof Damian

    I wonder if the “pre-order” is like the one for the N79 Active in Germany. There they pushed back the release date six times in four months and finally removed it completely from the on-line store.

  • http://gumbyfresh.com/ Gari N. Corp

    I think this post might be best titled “Nokia Lets You Preorder Any of Its High-Margin Attention Grabbers, But You’re SOOL If You Want One Of Their Solid Mid-Range Phones Any Time This Century.” OK, I know we’re still in the middle of an awkward period on phone hardware development, where it seems be be prohibitively expensive to produce quad-band 3G phones for the casual user, and I dare say that in good time the costs of the chips and so forth will come down and we’ll get to a situation with 3G the same as where we are with GSM – quad-band as standard.

    But until we get to that point, and before Nokia loses the US market to Korean firms, could Nokia please stop sitting on perfectly attractive models like the new E-Series machines (ex the E-75) and the new Classic models? There is a market for them, probably more than the horrible flip-top phones Nokia chucks at the US carriers.

  • http://gumbyfresh.com Gari N. Corp

    I think this post might be best titled “Nokia Lets You Preorder Any of Its High-Margin Attention Grabbers, But You’re SOOL If You Want One Of Their Solid Mid-Range Phones Any Time This Century.” OK, I know we’re still in the middle of an awkward period on phone hardware development, where it seems be be prohibitively expensive to produce quad-band 3G phones for the casual user, and I dare say that in good time the costs of the chips and so forth will come down and we’ll get to a situation with 3G the same as where we are with GSM – quad-band as standard.

    But until we get to that point, and before Nokia loses the US market to Korean firms, could Nokia please stop sitting on perfectly attractive models like the new E-Series machines (ex the E-75) and the new Classic models? There is a market for them, probably more than the horrible flip-top phones Nokia chucks at the US carriers.

  • jApi NL

    Expansys has the E72 in pre-order for E 399.99
    http://www.expansys.nl/#

    :) Regards jApi NL

  • jApi NL

    Expansys has the E72 in pre-order for E 399.99
    http://www.expansys.nl/#

    :) Regards jApi NL

  • http://thoughtsons60.com/ Jonathan Bruha

    While I think it’s a step forward that they’re now implementing preorders on new devices as they’re getting closer to launch, it’s two steps back when those preorders don’t get processed with the first batch. Nokia’s preorder system has left plenty of early buyers high and dry for both the N97 and the 5800XM and kinda defeats the purpose of a preorder altogether. Not a good way to establish trust if customers can find a faster way of getting a new phone after it’s released outside of the preorder and still through Nokia.

    And don’t get me started about the headaches that come with trying to cancel a preorder. Because of all that, I wouldn’t recommend anyone drop money on a Nokia preorder unless they really don’t care when the device ships.

  • http://thoughtsons60.com Jonathan Bruha

    While I think it’s a step forward that they’re now implementing preorders on new devices as they’re getting closer to launch, it’s two steps back when those preorders don’t get processed with the first batch. Nokia’s preorder system has left plenty of early buyers high and dry for both the N97 and the 5800XM and kinda defeats the purpose of a preorder altogether. Not a good way to establish trust if customers can find a faster way of getting a new phone after it’s released outside of the preorder and still through Nokia.

    And don’t get me started about the headaches that come with trying to cancel a preorder. Because of all that, I wouldn’t recommend anyone drop money on a Nokia preorder unless they really don’t care when the device ships.

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