Nokia N9 campaign in Uruguay
Antel, the most important telephony company in Uruguay, is launching a
new campaign for the Nokia N9.
Felt strange to see such large ads everywhere starring the N9. =D
By the way, the phone is U$S700, or 12 x ~U$S 60, with a 24 month U$S29 plan.
Shot with my faithful N82 =D (still on service)
- Rafael
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I wish i could find a way to get one of these puppies for anything less than 500 usd. It kinda sucks because I had to default to the cyan lumia900. Its really nice and all but the memory blows. As i would have wished to have my whole music library plus notes plus loads of apps. But with the 16gb lumia, that’s not happening.
skydrive fir music, also can use zune for streaming your own collection
Is that for the 64GB? It’s expensive if it’s USD700 for the 16GB. The 64GB N9 is currently around USD560 in Malaysia but most places out of stock
64GB has had horrid availability/pricing in every country in my region since day one
It almost seems like Nokia hasn’t wanted the 64GB to sell in volume, as if having that extra option might make overall sales “too good”.
here in switzerland you shoud visit mediamarkt where you can buy the 64gb version for 444 swiss francs (= 485 USD) at the moment.
Here in Argentina we have big ads of the N9 in the street, I’ll see if I can find one to post it here
Have you checked the stores, what they say when asking to see N9?
What are the prices out there? I spent 3 years living in Rosario, wife is out there on holiday at teh moment.
I think the unlocked phone is something around 700 USD. It’s not very cheap.
Myself, I dont even consider buying any smartphone or any expensive devices like iPods here because of the very inflated prices, I wait for someone to travel to USA to ask them to bring it to me. That sucks..
You can also buy it for around 375USD ($1800) with a contract from Claro, with I guess it’s a 2 year contract or at least year and a half, and you pay around 40USD per month ($200)
It’s no so cheap either, that is a very expensive contract
Some of the Finnish online stores have been selling N9for less than 300eur and also shipped abroad. They are emptying their stocks since everyone knows is not having future and support beyond maintenance.
Only Lumia ads here (Brazil), but poor sales.
same here in india,they are advertising and marketing lumia as if its their only product.still nobody bothers to buy it.
maybe you can post some numbers to got with that instead of fud
It’s possible to force feed ducks and possibly US consumers. However, it don’t seem to work in other markets.
I hadn’t seen big ads for Nokia phones before over here. It’s on billboards too. I wonder if they are selling or not. Such a niche phone… – Rafael.
Telenor in Serbia is advertising the N9 a lot
No they’re not, unless you live in some other Serbia. Granted, I don’t have a TV so they might advertise it there, but so far I haven’t seen a single billboard or an N9 on display @ Telenor stands in Usce, DeltaCity or Merkator.
They do have up to 50€ discount promotion for all Nokia phones atm. (sounds as if they are clearing their warehouses) but even there you can see the N9 only on a picture, and your average customer wouldn’t even know what it is. And unlike HTC One X and Samsung Galaxy Note which are heavily promoted, or even other lesser headsets that are available on their site main page, you actually have to dig-in deeply and look specifically for Nokia devices to even see the N9 listed.
And they also sell only the 16GB black version for a criminal 580€ off contract, while you can get it for free only if you sign a 40€/mo contract for 24 months.
That’s everything but promotion…
To my recollection, I have never seen Nokia advertise so strongly in the United States. Giant led billboards, lots of commercial time, AT&T pushing it harder than the SGII got pushed by any company. Well, they for try to push the NGage and had product placement in Transformers and TRON Legacy (the latter did get me interested and thus purchase 3 N8s, one for mom, one for dad and one for me).
I can’t help but feel that if they had ever bothered to advertise out right first gen S^3 devices or the N9 here in the USA, we would be it’s weakest market at a mere 600,000 users. That was so fuckin stupid!
There is a somewhat large chain of electronics stores by the name of Frys Electronics that sells N9 on there online store, but they want $629USD for them.
The problem is that 700USD in Uruguay is not the same 700USD in USA or anywhere else. You can compare how many BigMacs for this money you can buy there and how many BigMacs you can buy in USA. This only for the most well to do ppl. And pretty soon we will hear that there are no customers willing to buy N9. Simply because this is price higher then normal. Why not to make a promotion Nokia N9 for 99USD and take big share of market? This could rebuild customers base destroyed after depreciation of Symbian. The only good in this is that restricted and N9 prohibited US market will have easier to buy N9 perhaps.
I am sooooo happy that I went grey market and got a N9-64. The only problem is that it makes all other UX suck
I have a Sammy Series 7 slate and have installed and REMOVED windows 8 twice – simply because the swipe UX is so amazing -everything else suxz… yes I’m a huge fan of the N9
I bought mine in Claro Puerto Rico for 50usd two years contract
I saw some billboards in Puerto Rico for the N9 “All it takes is a swipe” back in November 2011. It struck me as cool / bizarre because PR is US territory and the N9 got ZERO marketing in the US as Nokia weren’t officially selling it there. Weird how you could get it ‘officially’ in Puerto Rico (which is frickin beautiful btw so go visit!)
I have a cyan 16gb… might upgrade to the 64gb later this year if the price drops, but will have to settle for the black one obviously. Unless I reach the end of the rainbow and see a white one….
Was trying to buy a slightly used very well taken cared of N900 from an acquaintance but her husband tried it once and fell in love with it so now it’s off the market. Guess I’ll be buying my second, N9 in a few days. N9-64gb in white. Then saving up for the 808. Symbian and Harmattan will not die with me.
My N8 is still rocking. Can’t touch it though because my wife won’t let me near it. She’s using it as a backup to her iphone 4. But if she needs to take a picture of our kids or anything else, out it comes before everything else.
Wow, I wished they did the same in Malaysia. Unfortunately, there is not a single mention of it on either the newspaper or TV, and no poster ads when it was released. Only the Nokia Store had posters and even a demo unit (which was eventually replaced with the Lumia 800 demo unit after its launch).
Yeah I recall you saying that about Malaysia…
Quite surprising, but then it did get the lumia quite soon after the N9 actually got there.
There seems to be quite a bit more of a gap in other countries.
Wonder how they choose those “other countries”…
Huh? You sure you were in Malaysia during product launch last year? There was a full page ad every week in The Star, Harian Metro and at least one of the chinese newspapers.It ran for around 2 months.
They had a Ninja(or sthing like that) contest during the 1st two weeks of launch, with 16GB N9 as prize
During Good Friday/Easter, one of the Nokia Stores in Kualau Lumpur had discounts for Nokia devices, one of them the 64GB N9, which they advertised in The Star.
It was mostly press ads, no big billboards or TV ads or street posters
That’s right, now that you mention I recall the ninja thing
You sure it was for a full two months?
Can’ recall if there was billboards, but there was bus ads, various print media adds, & the odd street poster in Australia.
The 1st & 3rd methods seemed to be localized to Sydney & Melbourne respectively.
There was also nationwide TV ads that lasted about 1mth, inc. being featured on one of those reality TV shows (name escapes me).
All up the entire program lasted about 2mth…
It was all “done & dusted” by mid-Dec, despite the Lumia’s being yonks away.
Of course, remnants of of all the print media ads remained floating about.
And various telcos/resellers/retailers had them in their advertising for a bit longer.
Sorry Saul, my reply was actually directed to DesR85. Msia was one of the 1st countries to launch N9, so, 2 months as in Oct & Nov should be logical. I subscribe to The Star, one of the english newspaper, being an N9 owner, I was sure to take note of any ads.
There was also ads on New Straits Times online version, until end of 2011 I think.
In comparision, the marketing in Australia was at a bigger scale, with TV ads, we didnt have that here.
The reason I asked was because I seem to recall australia got N9 at least 1wk before Msia*, & it def. get L800 heaps later, & our entire campaign was only about 2mth.
But anyway, I’m sure you know better than me, thanks for the insight!
*I mean on shelves…
Probably could have gone on holiday outside of Malaysia by then, I cannot recall. but I was not aware of any launch party at that time until you mentioned it.
Heck, I didn’t even know of the N9′s existence until I happen to come across a demo unit at one Nokia Store last October while just browsing around at Bintang Plaza in Miri, Sarawak.
I’m not from Kuala Lumpur, by the way, so no such fanfare on my side. And for some reason, the East Malaysia version of The Star didn’t post those ads. Probably the KL head office just assume its not worth advertising there, I think, but I could be wrong.
A very proud owner of the white nokia N9 !!! Living in KSA its difficult tohave a unique phone as everything is available at very afforfdable prices! Bt the N9 has made its biggest disadvantage its main advantage (obscurity) ! Every second person either has an apple ( Ware house of some million silly apps) or d samsung devices ! Bt d N9 specially white stands unique evem in the crowdest of places with its simply amazing styling ! Any apple user can use an android phone and vice versa but both put together cannot use the N9 which is pure innovation and makes it a real unique stand alone phone !!!! Just luv d simple yet classy N9 {WHITE} !!!
@Proud N9 white owner
Which country is “KSA”?
Cheers.
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, I’d guess…
Ah ofc, thanks.