We love covering the antics of gadget-crazed buyers on launch day as much as anyone, whether it be
die-hard gamers waiting for a PS3 or
international fanatics clamoring for Apple's latest. Sometimes, though, these big launch sellouts feel a bit... contrived. Such is the case with Nokia's
5800 XpressMusic, dropped first in Russia on Wednesday ahead of its
worldwide release yesterday. An internal memo (conveniently posted onto the
Mobile-Review forums by a Nokia employee) talks up the usual release day shenanigans: buyers camping for days, bribery attempts for spots in line, inventory disappearing in minutes, and an inevitable prediction that this thing will be bigger than the iPhone. However, while the memo liberally quotes from the LiveJournal musings of
Mobile-Review editor Eldar Murtazin, it skips over one choice bit of information he provided: a measly 120 phones were available at this "flagship" location in Moscow.
[Thanks, pops]
posted Nov 28th 2008 9:31AM
The "article" is not Nokia biased, at all!
Stunning indeed..
I imagine you'd have to take anything Eldar says with a grain of salt. His reviews are incredible for detail and silly amounts of pictures, but objective? Not always.
Regardless, the 5800 is still creating quite a bit of excitement. My girlfriend already ordered one for me as an early Christmas present (despite it not supporting US 3G).
My girl wants one too (i wait for the eitri to remplace my N92-8GB ^^), the 5800 is great !!