* Yes I was one of the 500.
* Yes I have been checking in and applying my code daily to see if it would take.
* Yes I have become worried that I missed a critical email regarding the availability and search my entire gmail archives.
* No I am not mad and outraged at Nokia for this.

Am I disappointed, yes, I want it now now now. I want to be the first techogeek on my street with it.
BUT I also remember the mess with The N800 discount codes. LetsTalk.com ( the US Nokia online distributer) is crap.

Before everyone jumps to conclusions of Nokia profiteering for the holidays at developers expense, let's just think for a moment that there may be some logistical Snafu here causing online delays.
So lets think for a moment. Nokia cell phones have had a very small market in the US. With the provider mess in the US, Nokia USA does not have a direct.nokia.com store in the US. Instead it chose an online distributer, LetsTalk.com. They probably have a silly contract making it such the Nokia cannot open a portal for direct online purchase. Now brick and mortor is different. Enter Flagship stores. The discount codes for US people are not really Nokia discount codes instead they are a letstalk.com code, thus no discount at BnM stores.

I know Quim has hinted that they are desperately working on the issues (just quietly). The Dec 19th date is currently our best guess.
Quim, any chance a *little* information can flow out regarding codes?

A side rant. b2evolution (meamoepeople hosted blogs) is crappy. The # 1 issue is I still get all the SPAM people try to post to my blog. It fills up the same list as real comments (sorry if I missed publishing any) SO I will probably be moving to Wordpress soon. At least then I get akismet and wordpy.