Nokia 5800 XpressMusic just before getting ready to hit shelves on Nokia Stores created lot of chaos everywhere with their declared prices in Spain and Italy. The pre-booking price displayed on these official sites is 429 Euros instead of 279 Euros (without taxes) which was originally promised by Nokia.
The potential buyers were shocked, stunned and disappointed to see their long awaited Nokia 5800 listed at 429 EUR. They found it simply unacceptable and shameful act of Nokia to not keep its promise on the pricing. However, the clouds of confusions looks like clearing off now with some good news that came our way this evening.
According to the official information our friend Eldar Murtazin on LiveJournal got from Nokia, the base price of the phone is still €279, but each country is free to bundle additional goodies with it.
Nokia Spain bundled the 5800 trendy with their 100 Euro voucher for Nokia Music Store and 3 month subscription of Nokia Maps (Voice) Navigation service, and thus the price increased. The other countries which are ready to launch Nokia 5800 XpressMusic this season may follow the suit too.
Another reason for this twist in pricing is probably to stop grey market sales in this Christmas season. The grey market sellers just can’t grab a bunch of Nokia 5800 sets from a neighbor country to sell in their local grey market to make loads of money, just like they did with Iphone. They will probably not go for it if they have to overpay well over 100 EUR for the stuff they can’t use in another country.
But this pricing scheme will hopefully come to an end when Nokia 5800 starts shipping worldwide in early 2009. It will become unbundled again and prices will come down to €279 (plus taxes) as promised earlier. So if you are not so desperate enough to grab the smartphone this holiday season, its better to wait for prices coming down very soon. Cheers!!
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Hate to bring more high prices, but here it is. The only swedish webshop currently listing Nokia 5800 is Dustinhome. The are listing it at 3745 SEK which is about 367 EUR. That’s higher than 279 tax, which should be about 349 EUR. The page doesn’t say anything about Nokia Music Store (yet?), but it says that an 8 GB card is included. Release date is set to 2009-02-27, estimated. Here’s the link.
http://www.dustinhome.se/pd_5010196280.aspx
Friday, November 28th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Anssi Vanjoki had an Interview with the german “Focus ”
he said:
Focus: Erste Tests fielen im Vergleich mit dem iPhone nicht so gut aus …
Vanjoki: … weil im iPhone eine sehr teure Technologie steckt. Wir haben eine günstigere angewandt – und können das Gerät für 230 Euro anbieten.
translated:
Focus : First tests didn’t turned out to be so good for the 5800…
Vanjoki:…because it doesn’t have an touchscreen technology as expensive as the iphone’s one. Our technology is cheaper,that’s why we can offer the mobilephone for 230 euro
Link : http://www.focus.de/magazin/kurzfassungen/focus-nokia-will-apple-iphone-mit-mehreren-modellen-uebertrumpfen_aid_343529.html
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
I’ll continue to contribute with some more prices.
I went to MediaMarkt in Las Terazas on Gran Canaria today. They sold the 5800 för 389 eur, Nokia.es lists it at 429 eur as said before. I tried their demo phone a little. So asked for one, but they told me that they only had the demo phone and I had to make a reservation. My spansish isn’t really good, so I don’t know how long it’d take to get the phone.
But anyway, Nokia 5800 for 389 eur at MediaMarkt Spain.
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Thanks Phill for that info.
And GuruX, you are doing a great job here. Thanks so much for all the latest updates from local markets.
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 at 7:38 am
Well, I just love that you’re running a blog about every little thing that concerns the Nokia 5800. I guess this is my way of saying thank you to you guys.