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Nokia refutes faltering N900 sales reports

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Nokia has said that recent reports suggesting that the flagship N900 smartphone has sold well below its targets are unfounded.

Only 100,000 N900s shipped during the first five months of its availability, according to information published by Reuters and qualified by analyst firm Gartner.

A Nokia spokesperson said that this figure was inaccurate, explaining to The Inquirer that many more than the 100,000 units mentioned in the claim have actually shipped worldwide.

"As we've stated previously, we're pleased with sales of the device," said Nokia in a statement. It would not give precise sales figures to back up these claims.

Nokia launched the N900 in November of 2009 and its arrival was significant because of the presence of the Maemo operating system.

The N900 was the most powerful Nokia smartphone on its arrival and many saw it as a slate PC rather than a mobile phone because of its predominantly landscape orientation and its flexible software platform.

Despite these credentials, the N900 appears to have failed to achieve true mainstream success to date.

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  • Billy Blocko, 1st June 2010.

    No smoke without fire, I reckon. I can well believe that the N900 underperformed.

    There's a good reason why Nokia had two board room reshuffles in a matter of months. They know they need to raise their game and market their genuinely ace phones properly.

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  • Chris , 2nd June 2010.

    Not suprised it's underachieved - poorly implemented new models are now standard with Nokia. By the time it's debugged we'll all want something else. Too many models means poor development on release and too many trivial updates mean anything up to a year before it's acceptable to use with all Nokias i've owned.

    The N900 is proof of this, plus its lack of portrait mode and loss of text when using the touch key pad. And there was no pc suite support last i looked, so not able to update a version only to find the uk didnt get that version anyway.

    Shame, because it has massive potential. Just needs Nokia to WAKE UP!

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  • Captain Reality, 17th September 2010.

    They simply have way too many models. They should have about 4. A real cheapy phone, a feature phone, a business phone, and a media phone. The main difference between the business phone and media phone would be keyboard, and pre-loaded software.

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