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Just an FYI for the US Market...

I just ordered my P990i from http://www.myworldphone.com for $899!!

I literally got a UPS tracking # within 60 minutes of ordering, 2nd day air.

They have great service, I bought a Moto Slvr from them a few months back and shipped that quickly as well...
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Posted: 2006-08-23 02:54:25
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Awesome bro congrats... im stil waiting for a lower price! $835 is the best I've seen
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Posted: 2006-08-23 05:23:19
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@ outsidah -- Where did you see $835? That's a really good price.

@ cardpunk -- Thanks for the update! MobilePlanet still doesn't have stock, so I may cancel with them and order from www.myworldphone.com. So their service is pretty good?

Has anyone else ever ordered from this company?
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Posted: 2006-08-23 06:09:18
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Their service is great. They have a Live Help Chat on their website.

The chat has been very helpful, they have been keeping me up to date on the P990 progress.

I ordered today (first time it showed up on their site).

I have a Tracking # through UPS which is already trackable (will be here thursday)...

I'll post back pictures when I get the phone, or if there are any issues...
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Posted: 2006-08-23 09:39:00
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That's great, I hope you enjoy it. Do you travel to Europe often? Honestly, that seems like the only reason to buy this device now. If your main usage will be in the States then it seems like you're paying for a lot more than you are able to use. But, if you like the phone and can afford it that is all that really matters I guess.

For me, I will wait for a quad-band or North American version that also supports HSDPA on 850 and/or 1900. We have HSDPA in Boston now so I won't buy a device that I can not use to its fullest.

Here comes the rant, so anyone who doesn't care can stop reading now.

I don't understand why HTC and Nokia can make a quadband GSM/triband UMTS/HSDPA device and SE can't. I don't buy the whole market size or consumer sophistication argument. All the major US carriers carry the Wizard/Apache phones which are more complicated to use than the P series. I think SE marketing is just lazy and not doing a good job marketing to US carriers. Any serious marketing effort to sell a phone that is as powerful as the HTC PPCs but easier to use should work. I think that they are just used to dealing with European carriers that they already know and have established relationships with. I'm sure that the P series phones practically sell themselves to the European carriers, whereas it would take much more legwork to make US carriers familiar with these phones.

If there are any SE marketing people out there tell me whether I am right or not.

[ This Message was edited by: dr.W on 2006-08-23 18:36 ]
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Posted: 2006-08-23 19:35:39
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Well I just placed an order from them for an overnight delivery. So hopefully I will get mine tomorrow (Thursday) too! Thanks for the tip. Crazy MobilePlanet and Expansys won't have stock for 9 days! Ridiculous! I hope all will go smoothly with this order...
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Posted: 2006-08-23 20:02:12
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www.plemix.com has it for $835
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Posted: 2006-08-23 21:08:21
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Can someone explain the drawbacks of using my P990i in the US?

Slower connection? less coverage? Not sure I fully understand...

I assume its just the non 3G support rolled out through the entire country?

[ This Message was edited by: cardpunk on 2006-08-24 00:09 ]
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Posted: 2006-08-24 00:45:28
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P990i supports the EU 3G frequency band only - 2100MHz. Cingular (the only US carrier with 3G GSM service so far) has only deployed in very limited markets and uses 850 or 1900MHz.

T-Mobile is likely to do the same as they deploy in 2007 (or so they promise).

I don't even think this phone has EDGE.

So you have a nice but very expensive 1900MHz only, GPRS phone with WLAN.

As the other guy said - buying something without quadband GSM and triband 3G is not sensible.
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Posted: 2006-08-24 02:01:21
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Ahh ok, yeah it doesnt have that 850 band...

I have a P900 now that I think is only Tri-band as well.

If I'm happy now with the P900 (and slow GPRS) do you think I'll be happy with the P990 until 2007?
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Posted: 2006-08-24 02:47:25
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