Price confusion over Nokia 5800 XpressMusic mercifully ends (maybe)
By Laura June 
posted November 19th 2008 11:11AM
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Wow. I guess they had to do everything to keep that price above 400€.
Actually this is called 'crapping on early adopters' which is a pretty common thing as those who bought the first iphone will tell you.
70 euro for Nokia Maps Navigation for 3 months?!
Wait! 100 euro Nokia Music Store voucher? Not "Nokia comes with music 1 year subscription"???
Try 50.......Learn how to subtract.
try 100..learn to read the link
'i' so is anyone going to buy this iphone knock off, im not lol, high rank me now lol
Care to explain why is this an Iphone knock off?
Don't feed the troll, please.
This is really a high price for a Knock off, specially in these times & also when the real thing is being offered from the competition for free in many european countires
Link?
This will be free on a cheaper contact than the jesusphone. I'm guessing at around £20-£25 a month on 18month term. The iphone is only free on a £45/month contract. Quoting the list price from nokia is pretty misleading as nobody actually buys a phone from their store.
Can you explain 2 of your words to me?
What's the knock off here and what's the real thing?
So, you can pick blue or red, but the picture is in black? Are they asking you to select the color of your wallpaper?
my guess is if you select blue... the main picture of the phone turns to blue and the original blue button changes to black.. you've never seen this before?
Your jokes are so not funny...
@KIFF
they copied everything from the iphone such as touch screen, simple design (nokia did fail a copying), music, itunes store (nokia store) etc so im not buying it
The 3 months nokia maps is free for it anyways and in all newer gps enabled nokia phones I believe. Additional months though cost quite a bit though certainly not 50 lbs remaining in that price for. That works out to probably to 6 months to a year nokia maps service.
Hi from Spain,
And yes, a sad day indeed. When something, when anything, turns from €279 to €429...you can only think: what the...!?
It is not fair at all to be OBLIGATED to purchase a €100 voucher and a subscription you do not want at all. But it is not a surprise for me...just here you got another example about the abuses and the not-at-all "free market" we got in Spain around mobile terminals.
In Spain it is a common practise, between network operators and manufacturers, to pact/agree prices, offer "exclusive" terminal models for each operator, etc. This means that if you are client of a certain operator you will got some models "cheaper and exclusive", if you are client of another operator you will got different models "cheaper and exclusive" and so on.
I bet that in a few days one (perhaps more) Spanish network operator (Telefonica, Vodafone, Orange, etc) will sale the 5800 for "only" €350 or €300 or even €280!!!! Can you see the trick?
If at Nokia Spain they sale the 5800, free and unlock, for €279 ... the network operators will not be able to offer a better price. Suddenly we got a good terminal, with great specs at a very low price, much lowest that the 90% (or more) of the current terminal offer the network operators got in Spain.
This will be very bad for the terminals sales in Spain...but the solution is so easy: lets almost double the terminal price. The trouble banishes and all the stupid Spanish customers, I am the biggest one, will pay as we always do.
And, of course, you can not buy a french terminal, or an UK one or...
A Nokia 5800 for €279, free and unlock...it was too good to be true (at least in Spain), and nobody is going to do anything at all to solve this kind of abuses, isn't it?
wow that's a lot of writing
I think what you have described is true for most countries, not just Spain.
Operators rule the world - and the sales. So, 279 EUR (it's more like 299 - 329 after taxes in EU) would have been too cheap - I was thinking about buying it unlocked for that price, just as you say!
I guess operators just said: we want the Christmas season for ourselves, you can sell your phone only starting from January (for 279 EUR + tax). And Nokia caved, as it happens usually to all manufacturers.
So, now there is the choice: early adoption for 429 EUR or 2-year contract with an operator. Or January, for the original Nokia price, unlocked, SIM-free (~299 EUR).
Personally, I'll wait for January, I'm not willing to sell my soul to the operators for 1 month difference.
laura you've really increased your blogging output lately
Meet: bob sakamano, resident Engadget stalker.
and I mean that in the nicest way possible.
no... meet bob sakamano... daytime accountant... AKA... most-bored person on the internet, bored enough to keep track of engadget-blogger-posting-frequency
yeah, electrical engineering holds about the same amount of excitement.
@ OCEAN
lol. You do know that touchscreen and/or music phones existed before Apple, no? Including those by Nokia, Sony et.al
Unfortunately, Ocean is right.
Sony Ericsson traveled into the future to steal Apple's ideas for their 8GB touchscreen W950i music phone. Why they haven't used their time machine for other purposes is puzzling though.
Sony Ericsson also used their time machine to go to the year 2015 where they stole the idea of Bluetooth file transfer from the iPhone 7G
The Sony Ericsson P910i combined a touchscreen with music playback a good 3-4 years before the iphone was thought up
I definitely buy one @ €279 especially at the current exchange rate (only $351.394).
So Apple invented touch screen mobile phones, minimalism, music and online shopping? Wow, no wonder you love them so much.
So Apple invented touch screen mobile phones, minimalism, music and online shopping? Wow, no wonder you love them so much.
Okay... I give up trying to get this to actually reply to the correct comment... How hard can it be to make a firefox compatible comment section?
It's impossible to reply to clak. He's been fed too much. John, however, has succeeded in replying to clak somehow.
This is one botched up product release. How long ago did we see all those reviews? Seemed like the phone was pretty much ready back then, so why the hold up? Or if it wasn't ready to be released in a short notice, why make a big prerelease party and allow all those reviews?
Wow it takes a long time for people to catch on - only when it is in the BIG print do they actually read what was in the small print 2 months ago.
It was announced in September that Nokia would be charging £129 extra in the UK for the "inclusive 1-year comes-with-music subscription" on top of the £218 price of the phone (Approx $530 total). Consequently, none of the UK networks have said they will even offer to sell the 5800 despite desperate attempts by Nokia to get them onboard.
I said at the time that they were mad thinking people were going to pay £129 up-front for DRM protected music that will die with their phone, or the single PC they are allowed to sync it to and play it on. Are Nokia living in the same world as iTunes and .torrents? Who do they think will buy it with this stupid "comes with music" contract?
Yargh, you answered my question below before I was able to submit it. However, this is a phone for sale in Spain, so it sounds like the fee is not just for Brits... though 129 quid is a bit steeper than 100 euro :)
I'm confused, can someone clarify the Comes With Music services?
Isn't this a Comes With Music phone? Why do you need a 100 euro voucher for the store? I know the CWM service is a subscription, so maybe the voucher is to 'purchase' songs that you can keep forever? Or is the 100 euro voucher the "Comes With Music" part, meaning that when you buy a CWM phone you have to pay extra for the actual music part?
CWM has not been fully launched. This phone will eventually be one but not presently.
"OCEAN 'CLAK' 20th @ Nov 19th 2008 12:39PM
@ KIFF, JAY
yes the iphone was the worlds first with touch screen, multi touch, music player, full web brower, and apple did invent minimalism design and music store
apple's flawless with phones"
I was going to agree with you until the last line, because it is true that Apple is the first to include all those things in 1 phone..
@Ocean
Stop screaming you own an iphone ;)
Iphone was and it still be the first touchscreen phone with multi touch interface ( wow i can zoom with my photo manager and web browser with two finger instead with one finger tap, that's revolutionary) and that's all .
There was plenty of phones withtouchscreen, music player and full web browser , and i add with more functions, and more open ; those where just all the Winmo phones with touchscreen without a catchy design , but time ago those where just for "geeks" or "business pleople" and thus ignored.
This maps and music might be true and all, but I have to quote myself from symbian-freak forums:
A little calculation here!
Nokia's own prices are quite steep. This week I got a brochure from Nokia stating that the price of N96 is 945€, while a large Finnish retailer verkkokauppa.com is selling it for 700€ (about 74% of Nokia's price). Other examples: E71 449/570€ (79%). N79 430/560€ (77%) N85 550/700€ (79%).
So with a little calculation we see that 78% of the 429€ pre-order price of 5800 would be 335€, which would be less than 279€ plus Finnish vat 22% (=340€).
Of course this doesn't mean anything, but if verkkokauppas's prices stay the same in relation to Nokia's, the price of 5800 should be pretty much what was promised.
im still buying it. Fo Sho!
I'd suggest that Spanish consumers buy the 5800 Xpress from a gray market or parallel importer and just forget the telecoms and their ridiculous pricing. I do this all the time with cell phones and have never had a problem.