Nokia Lumia 800 sold out in Ireland?
WMPoweruser reports that the Nokia Lumia 800 is out of stock at Vodafone Ireland (went on sale February 1) and since they’re the exclusive retailer, that suggests that the 800 is sold out in Ireland.
HOWEVER, of course it is important to note that this is only a slight indication that sales are at least going well as we don’t know how much has been moved. Surur notes that the first shipments is usually the largest. Either way, where ever the Nokia Lumia 800 is launching, it seems to be selling well enough to deplete stock.
Source: WMPoweruser
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*sets up barricade for the N9 trolls*
Ah fuck off
It probably has sold out because there was only 1 stock available!
nokia europe has no taste
Nokia Europe has no class!
nokia seems to be wining the battle on their chosen beachheads, it can only get better as more countries are added,
then the big-gun lumina 900 starts its battle campaign.
I honestly doubt that the Lumia 900 will be a hit, since recently some Info about WP8/Apollo got leaked. Who is going to spend hundreds of Dollars/Euro for the 900, when the real McCoy comes in a few month along with WP8? I must admit, that even I got a bit “exited” about WP8 and start considering to jump on the Nokia/MS bandwagon.
Apolla is still almost a year away, it will be introduced when W8 is, which is around september at the earliest. Although I wish MS would release sooner.
apollo*
why can’t the lumina 800/900 tango be upgraded too apollo when its released,
apple inc does it all the time, upgrades its ios and its compatible with older iphones,
Who’s saying it can’t be?
You can’t upgrade the deficient CPU, GPU, screen resolution and storage.
Apollo doesn’t just bring software with it, it brings a whole new world of hardware that WP7 desperately needs to be competitive. But it doesn’t bring it until the end of the year.
The screen resolution is fine for a small device, the CPU will be fine for the MinWin Kernel, etc. the only thing you have something of a point with is storage.
using that logic means no one should ever buy any device, cause better devices are always “just around the corner”
Right… but you can put iOS 5 on a 3GS which doesn’t have the iPhone 4 or 4S’s screen resolution, GPU or CPU.
Sorry, your logic fails. Apollo will almost certainly be backwards compatible just as iOS is.
That’s good news
Depends on the stock
Yes, sold 5 out of 5
Oh man, give me more success news every day…Please tell me how many Lumias were sold in every little shop, worldwide…and also please report any fart a nokia seller made at the same time…
We are almost here. Give it another month or so, we’ll be reading what Elop had for breakfast.
Looking forward
Hopefully he will be forced to eat this cartons with the “Amazing every day bla bla on it”…I mean somewhere they need to spend this $20 Million on 
Which battle??? Against whom?!
elop mentioned “beachheads” which is a battle term,
the smartphone battle, against mainly apple and google,
just my take of what it might be.
Same business as usual! Do you remember that headlines back when the lumia 800 was released and promoted in UK? Just for example this story here: http://mynokiablog.com/2011/11/23/nokia-lumia-800-sold-out-in-some-orange-stores/ The lumia 800 was so well doing in UK that it was hard for customers to get one. And now read this statement from Nokia Q4 report:
The success of the Lumia smartphones has varied from market to market. Sales have steadily improved in Spain and Germany, BUT HAVE STRUGGLED IN THE U.K., which is the hardest market to conquer in Europe because of the strength of competing smartphone operating systems. – Elop
History is repeating itself.
Lies upon lies upon lies. Nothing new.
The Emperor’s new clothes. The classics always teach us something. Well, at least most of us..
http://nokiagadgets.com/2011/11/27/nokias-lumia-800-launch-in-spain-supposedly-gone-well/
http://www.wpcentral.com/nokia-lumia-800-tops-o2-germany-best-selling-list
you missed these out.
still doing well arent they?
maybe history will repeat in a you know, more positive manner.
Im really baffled about the comments i read here.
Its been awhile since i hear positive news regarding sales for a nokia device and the people here react negatively to it.
I mean wth?
Haters gonna hate.
No! People who wanted to have free phone like Meego see a tiny little chance that Nokia might be forced to drive a Plan B strategy with Maemo/Meltemi/Qt. Worse numbers for WP are better for us…It’s quite simple…
I’m not primarily a Nokia fan. I’m a fan of their old Qt strategy…
In opposite of “haters” we have a lot of “fanboys” here!
And that shows how short sighted you are. And you’really the kid here, kiddo.
Yes, of course! This blog is really not the place to have a good debate. It’s WP fanboys against the old costumers of Nokia which are dissapointed about Nokia being bought by MS
I’ve been a customer of Nokia since the early 1990′s and could not be happier about the Windows Phone strategy.
Hm? Nononono, I’ve had a multitude of Nokia devices ever since 3210, so where do I belong in?
Protip: I loved N900, but WP7 is *good enough*. Still have E7 though.
What if WP integrates Qt(unlikey, but what if?)? Making it a Meltemi + WP ecosystem?
better, but nood good enough!
BTW: MS won’t force Qt on Wp! There might be a little chance with WP8 though
Some people find it hard that other people have differing opinions.
But yes, it’s a bit sad. Surely this is news for cautious optimism about Nokia’s future?
Some people find it hard to face reality. But since they are paid to avoid facing it, I suppose it doesnt matter.
“Cautious optimism”. Laughable. When you are dealing with billions in cash and assets, there is no place for “cautious optimism”. But I guess they don’t teach that in economics schools these days.
what reality?
And owh! What’s do they teach you then? Genuine question.
What do they teach in bitterness schools? You seem quite adept so I’m assuming that you’ve attended one recently.
As for ‘paid’, totally untrue and, frankly, slanderous. As a fairly long term Nokia user – since 1998 – who has owned a 5110, 3210, 3310, 6100, 6230i, N95, N86, 5800, X6, N8 and now a Lumia 800 with the odd break fro a Samsung Omnia (ugh), ZTE Blade (ugh) and iPhone 3GS (nice) I think I can offer an opinion. Mine is simply that I prefer Windows Phone and think it offers a better option than Symbian or MeeGo and despite Elop’s clumsy handling of the EOL of Symbian would rather be optimistic and supportive.
You are, of course, entitled to your opinion, monomaniacal as it is, and you don’t have to like me or the other posters on the board when we counter your points or tell you to stop whinging on about the same thing in every WP topic. But stop it with the ‘paid poster’ comments. It’s simply not true.
Hey you left your m$ employee guide book in at the pantry again remember to pick it up along with your monthly commission. :p
Woops, busted!
…I thought I left mine there. Now where did I put it then?
These consistently negative people here re: win are the same ones that got them into this whole mess to begin with, and they still fail to realize it
Huh?
People who consistently bought Nokia phones before the Windows Phone switch are the ones who got Nokia into a mess?
Again, Huh?
Buying Nokia phones is what got Nokia into a mess?
Damn, we better not buy their Windows Phones either then, just in case.
i dont really get his comment either. but ill refrain from spinning it in anyway
Yes, in a way
You settled for mediocrity instead of demanded excellence
If you think the win phone is mediocre, buy the superior phone elsewhere
But don’t squirrel around here crapping on everything, either help move forward or get out
Apparently, the only good news about WP to some people here is NO NEWS about WP. Gotta love their consistency, though. All of these negative comments are pretty predictable now.
^^This.
I still don’t know what to make of these reports.
If they’ve sold out are Vodafone …
a) not buying many ?
b) underestimating demand ?
c) unable to get enough from Nokia ?
There’s only one of those that can be good news.
all options seems pretty good for nokia. not so much for the operator thou. no foresight.
At least people are buying the device. I think Nokia needs lumia to survive so as to carry on with plans for symbian and meltemi.
Yes, I want lumia to be a success for Meltemi and growth of Symbian, haha does that make sense??
hmm. yup. i feel the same way too actually. =D
I don’t want WP become a success!
1) No need for a late comer with a pocket full of money bribing the tech blog/news scene to praise their “another commercial lock-in system”-shit!
2) There’s Google, there’s Apple, now we still need to have Microsoft & Facebook –> This is a totally failed claim for more competition and literally only a wish to choose between 4 elephants.
3) Microsoft is as always too late, so they deserve to stay behind! Less inovation means you’re out of te game even i have the same principle critismn for Apple & Google!
4) MS is the main(!) reason for letting Meego down…the path to a mobile OS with very strong ties to the open source community!
5) Who wants a castrated Meltemi on 200 EUR phones if you could have Meego/Maemo on a N9/Lumia 900 hardware basis?
6) Less WP sold! Hopefully the both Stevens get kicked in the ass!
I’m not sure that you are aware that meego is still not really usable.
Are saying you just want maemo?
Let’s call it Maemo/Meego/Mer with Nemo Mobile/Plasma One… the fact is: I want a upper class phone (e.g. N9 and successors) with a mostly free OS which is not a walled garden! And even a bit more: It should allow me to replace the OS by another if I want. It’s so easy to make me happy! Give me good hardware, Nokia/Navteq maps, and the freedom of choice and I will be happy to be your advocat again…
I just don’t like to eat Steve Balmers, nor Apples, nor Googles dogshit for mainstream kiddies who are happy to upload their addressbooks to have some more friends…
BTW: What do you understand under the word “usable”?
Sounds like you want the Samsung galaxy nexus
http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/Hummingbird
Good luck!
That’s a ridiculous laundry list of stuff for a phone. You just need to get any phone and couple it w/ a laptop.
Secondly, enough w/ the “kiddies” comments. If you’re so technologically superior to everyone else, go ahead and make your own smartphone. Show us “kiddies” how it’s done
It’s not a ridiculous laundry list but foresight Mr. “You’re full of shit” man. But I let you admire the emperor in new clothes while the industry tends another direction and burries the freedom of choice we consumers once had with our devices!
Miam miam … how good the marketing dogshit tastes…miam miam…can’t get enough of it
Are you paid by google to squat here?
Yes of course, because there is only Apple Google and MS in this world…and you must choose one of them
You’re full of shit.
“1) No need for a late comer with a pocket full of money bribing the tech blog/news scene to praise their “another commercial lock-in system”-shit!”
It was Nokia that was the late comer. When touch screens were on the cusp of coming to mobile tech, Nokia was slow to the game. An then they had the nerve to argue against capacitive screens instead making every excuse resistive was the wave of the future.
“2) There’s Google, there’s Apple, now we still need to have Microsoft & Facebook –> This is a totally failed claim for more competition and literally only a wish to choose between 4 elephants.”
Although it may not be as “open” as you and others like, WP is still another player in the game…making it yet another choice in addition to Android or iOS. Like it or not, it DOES add more competition.
“3) Microsoft is as always too late, so they deserve to stay behind! Less inovation means you’re out of te game even i have the same principle critismn for Apple & Google!”
See what I said in # 1.
“4) MS is the main(!) reason for letting Meego down…the path to a mobile OS with very strong ties to the open source community!”
Bullshit. Intel was the reason for letting Meego down! Constant delays. Nokia didn’t need to go the Intel route. It could have (and should have) stayed the Maemo path.
“5) Who wants a castrated Meltemi on 200 EUR phones if you could have Meego/Maemo on a N9/Lumia 900 hardware basis?
6) Less WP sold! Hopefully the both Stevens get kicked in the ass!”
Blah, blah, blah, blah….
# It was Nokia that was the late comer. When touch screens were on the cusp of coming to mobile tech, Nokia was slow to the game. An then they had the nerve to argue against capacitive screens instead making every excuse resistive was the wave of the future.
-> Yes, and that’s why the N900 was such a bullhit device and also N9…which still allows me to do more than WP today. But of course WP has a people hub…it only requires me to install a 3rd app to have a XMPP based chat which is not integrated at all! Same for VOIP. In the end its still a telephone! Your argument = fail
# Although it may not be as “open” as you and others like, WP is still another player in the game…making it yet another choice in addition to Android or iOS. Like it or not, it DOES add more competition.
–> Yes, the same choice between McDonalds or Burger King or Kentucky fried chicken…miam miam…and again i love this smelly marketing dogshit
# Bullshit. Intel was the reason for letting Meego down! Constant delays. Nokia didn’t need to go the Intel route. It could have (and should have) stayed the Maemo path.
–> Of course Nokia and Intel were both highly responsible! But: the main reson still is MS…waiting for the moment the partnership details are leaked!
# Who wants a castrated Meltemi on 200 EUR phones if you could have Meego/Maemo on a N9/Lumia 900 hardware basis?
–> And? True, isn’t it?
# Less WP sold! Hopefully the both Stevens get kicked in the ass!
–> They will but Nokia then is lost as well
Hippo, your mistake is to bother replying.
i called nokia customer care asking about restriction on windows phone,they told many of it will be removed with future windows device,and iasked when it will come,he was about to tell something and suddenly he told they will inform me when it comes.
anecdotal evidence of good intial results with one carrier in one country, nothing more. but importantly, also _nothing less_.
Indeed. It can go either way, but if there _no_ news at all, I’d be way more worried.
exactly.:)
Bottom line is that it is still too early to tell how successful Nokia’s decision was. The Flagship (900) hasn’t even been released yet in American markets. It very well may flop. But until then, calling the strategy a failure right now is putting the cart before the horse. Yes, WP marketshare is as low as one could get. But things have barely started. Let’s give it some more time.
Yup, as I’ve said before IMO you can only _start_ (not conclude) to tell after Q2 2012 results are out.
Hypnopottamus says:
“But until then, calling the strategy a failure right now is putting the cart before the horse. Yes, WP marketshare is as low as one could get. But things have barely started. Let’s give it some more time.”
Then what was the point of nuking Nokia’s OS, since the replacement isn’t ready?
Viipottaja says:
“Yup, as I’ve said before IMO you can only _start_ (not conclude) to tell after Q2 2012 results are out.”
The three consecutive quarters of loss of shipments, revenue and profit didn’t occur?
You can’t judge the WP idea before them devices being out. Feb 11 was a clusterfuck though.
i for one am happy its doing well in my home country and for those people implying the irish market for mobiles is not worth talking about you dont no wat ur talking about, sure its far from the biggest market but believe me there’s plenty of euro’s to be had!
and nokia is a staple here in the west every no’s here u want value buy nokia wether it be symbian, hatterman or wp every1 to his/her own yes? Grow up and get on with things
abrakebabra!