The "when" Of Buying A Pandora

[Prometheus]

That's a strange thing to say. Why would they do that? They've been doing business in this community since at least 2003, and most everyone knows where they're located.

 

[thej1mb0]

That's a strange thing to say. Why would they do that? They've been doing business in this community since at least 2003, and most everyone knows where they're located.

Yeah, I guess it is pretty unlikely. Still, the option is there.

 

[MonkeyChops]

I'm pretty sure there's no money to jet off with. They will be in the red until well into the second batch or is it 3rd batch now?

 

[b1ueskycomp1ex]

That's a strange thing to say. Why would they do that? They've been doing business in this community since at least 2003, and most everyone knows where they're located.

In the word's of Craig Rothwell, ".... probably kill me and bury me in the snow - I won't be found 'till next spring, DEAD!"

 

[Chairman_Now]

The Nokia N900[url] is probably the closest thing to a Pandora, including Linux support and physical keyboard, but it's a phone so expect to pay a premium.

I may be mistaken, but aren't they discontinuing it soon?

First, off, the n900 isn't all that expensive. I got mine for $150 during their latest promotion (now ended), which involved a minimum $280 trade-in on ANY phone, plus another 10% off list. And it works with my phone carrier, so there's that bonus.

While it is being discontinued - Nokia was never shy about talking about the product as an experiment - it is currently the dev phone for MeeGo/Maemo6. There will be unsupported versions of that OS for it for a good long while.

I rather like mine.

 

[Prometheus]

Oh, I'm not disputing that the OS and such will still be around, I've no doubt about that. I was meaning in the sense of not producing more of them - have I misunderstood?

 

[urjaman]

Oh, I'm not disputing that the OS and such will still be around, I've no doubt about that. I was meaning in the sense of not producing more of them - have I misunderstood?

Actually, I'm personally a bit surprised if this is true. I mean they had a booth at Assembly showing off some N900s, etc so...
Well a Google search came up with no direct confirmation from Nokia, only stories on forums that people have asked for N900s on a Nokia Shop and got an answer that it was discontinued. The (finnish) online nokia store has them stocked atm, but the price has been dropped (from 549€) to 489€. Its a shame if they really have discontinued it.

 

[mali]

^ It works always like that. Nokia doesn't confirm nor deny if you ask them, the products just disappear from the shops and that's it. The whole Internet Tablet line was a research project with very low sales and short support. They already split their dev team to work on MeeGo a while ago, but the N900 won't get an official MeeGo, so people are completely without support. As I see the situation, people will move over to Nitdroid or MeeGo and TMO will die off sooner or later, cause there are already separate boards for those alternatives and Maemo 5 is basically already dead.

 

[Mjlink]

To answer the "when" question in this topic >

The time to order is NOW :rolleyes:

The sooner you order ,the sooner you get it! , and then still "sooner" means a year at this rate of production.... <_<

But it's worth it considering what this device can do ^_^

+1

With the October 18th announcement for the end of batch 1, batch 2 preorders at this point in time may have the least time to wait for a Pandora. IMHO

Peace & Pandora,

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