Nokia will not ship the Nokia N900 in October as initially announced. The shipment date has been pushed back to sometime in November, according to Peter Schneider, Nokia’s Head of Marketing, Maemo Devices.
The Nokia N900 is a great example of what we and the open source community have been able to achieve with Maemo software. We are working closely with open source developers and for example, at the Maemo Summit in October, we loaned 300 pre-production units to get more feedback from the community. This feedback is extremely important to us and as such we also want to provide the best user experience with the Nokia N900.
We expect it to start shipping during November 2009.
It sounds like Nokia is ironing out a few last bugs…
The Nokia N900 should sell for about €500 (about US$715) before subsidies and rebates in “select markets”.