http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/ Engadget Mobile Comments for Nokia's North American N85 now shipping http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/Dec 9th 2008 8:51AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/
Are we talking about a 'free' phone - that requires a 2 year contract at $35 / mo - costing another $840 on top of 'free'...

Of course - a feature rich 'free' phone doesn't really exist, on average a carrier (in the US) would subsidize something like this to - oh - $350 range, but then they'd probably have you get a data plan, putting a minimum cost somewhere in the $60-70 range for 2 years - for another $1440-$1680 on top of the 'susidized' price...

Or you could early terminate your contract for ~ $200 .. that gets you $350 for the phone, no required monthly fees, plus another $200 for early term - that's $550 for the phone, which has carrier branding and firmware...

Hmm - $552 for a Nokia phone with no branding, manufacturer firmware and completely unlocked SIM access...

Price doesn't seem too bad when you start crunching the number...]]>Dec 9th 2008 9:16AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/Dec 9th 2008 9:27AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/Dec 9th 2008 9:25AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/http://www.nokiausa.com/buyonline). Of course that also means you can get a new unlocked N78 for less than $300. But I went for the big guns. I pre-ordered an N85 last week. Fedex says it's out on the truck for delivery right now.]]>Dec 9th 2008 9:44AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/Dec 9th 2008 1:15PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/Dec 9th 2008 2:28PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/Dec 9th 2008 2:47PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/I guess you really don't want it that badly then.]]>Dec 9th 2008 3:02PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/Mar 6th 2009 2:21PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/Mar 6th 2009 2:02PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/Mar 6th 2009 2:16PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/Mar 6th 2009 4:35PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/Mar 6th 2009 6:02PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/09/nokias-north-american-n85-now-shipping/Mar 6th 2009 8:04PM