Nokia N9 will not launch in the United States

By on Aug 9, 2011 at 11:35 PM
mobile August 9, 2011

Nokia confirmed on Tuesday that its flagship MeeGo-powered N9 smartphone will not launch in the United States. Nokia reached out to Engadget with the official statement on the matter:

After the very positive reception to the launch of the Nokia N9, the product is now being rolled out in countries around the world. At this time we will not be making it available in the U.S. Nokia takes a market by market approach to a product rollout, and each country makes its own decisions about which products to introduce from those available. Decisions are based on an assessment of existing and upcoming products that make up Nokia’s extensive product portfolio and the best way in which to address local market opportunities.

No doubt carriers in the United States are waiting for Nokia’s upcoming Windows Phone Mango handsets. The Finnish company could make the announcement about its first Mango phone during its annual Nokia World conference, which kicks off on October 26th.

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  • http://twitter.com/Mutiny32 Kyle Jones

    Fucking retarded, Nokia. Stop it.

    • numetheus

      They were never going to succeed in the US/Canadian market. Did you REALLY think they would? All signs point to no … but naive people thought yes.

      • Anonymous

        Actually that is a very nice phone, but it needs android, what the hell is meego? I’m not taking a chance on that OS, but android, pure android, thank you very much, would be attractive on this.

      • Anonymous

        now if someone said that about iOS everyone would call them a fanboy…

      • numetheus

        I completely agree …. and it may come to the US as SOMETHING ELSE. But it won’t be the N9.

      • Alan

        Do some homework love, Meego pisses all over Android, so why does this phone need Android!.

        Meego is faster, smoother, no lag, no crashes, better battery life, you can have 100 apps open if you wanted to and the phone would still run the same speed!.

        Now tell me why it needs Android!

  • Anonymous

    It’s sad to see Nokia a company with a long and proud tradition be run by a Microsoft sleeper cell bend on reducing Nokia to a lackey of Microsoft’s. Make no mistake change was needed but it didn’t have to be this.

    • sirpaul

      Likely there will be a replacement for it – “Decisions are based on an assessment of existing and —>>upcoming<<—
      products that make up Nokia’s extensive product portfolio and the best
      way in which to address local market opportunities."

      • Anonymous

        I sure hope so as I heard MeeGo in the rest of the world is moving forward, that an I know ASUS is making a netbook run it, plus I heard some car companies may use it to power next gen info-tament systems.

      • numetheus

        This kind of drum beating is commonplace. It is likely never going anywhere though.

  • Anonymous

    This is not news, this has been known for Months now.
    They are not launching the N9 in markets that will be receiving their Windows Phone 7 offerings.

  • http://www.youtube.com/jeromeo1980 Jeromeo

    Good.
    I don’t want anyone else here in the US to go through what I went through when Nokia stopped supporting my N900 only months after I spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars on it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Bell/100001788867831 Mike Bell

    Nokia’s betting everyting on WP7… everything!

    They’re so insane. They’re betting everything on a platform that’s sunk to 1-2% of marketshare and even though there are half a dozen or more WP7 phones out there, no one is buying them and retailers are steering people away from them because of the returns issue.

    And Nokia thinks they can change the huge tide????

    Nokia’s management are not fighting iPhone and Android, they’re fighting windmills.

    • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

      they really only have to fight the iphone…DROID OS and DROIDS are laggy junk that will be forgotten as long as Nokia can come up with a catchy slogan that r3tards who bought the DROID will also buy into

  • Anonymous

    This is so stupid. I’m really getting tired of Nokia doing dumb s like this. Why are they worried so much. Only real Nokia fans will buy the N9. It’s not supposed to compete with mango phones. I think they know the N9 is just better than any mango device

    • numetheus

      You may think so. The few Nokia fans in the US/Canada may think so. Everyone else either doesn’t know it exists, think it blows compared to their Android or iPhone, or don’t care to try it. It will never get anywhere here. They are making a smart move. I don’t know if you realize this …. but nobody gives two shits about the OS. It may be a lot better … but the general population doesn’t care. I know that if I want apps I go iPhone or Android. I could care less about the guy on the bottom … nor do I need to give them a chance. I buy devices for what they can give me now, not what they are capable of down the road.

      • http://twitter.com/swathid DPR

        atleast they should release N9 as unlocked thru amazon.

      • Anonymous

        You looks like very professional,and I don’t understand “It will never get anywhere here. They are making a smart move.”.
        Did you point out nokia’s marketshare decline?

  • numetheus

    This was very predictable. If you somehow thought Nokia was going to make a miraculous recovery in the US/Canada, then you are extremely naive.

  • Anonymous

    Thank God.

  • Anonymous

    who the hell cares about nokia?  keep away from the US.  all this talk about this stupid brick.  ugh.  looks way too ugly anyway.

    • Alan

      No chap you look ugly, this phone is pure sex, but you would not realise it if it hit you in the head!

  • http://www.lemonbase.com lemonbase

    Oh what a bummer for the Americans… Hopefully it will hit the Aussi shores soon….

  • Anonymous

    Thats a nice looking phone and meego looks better and better the more i see it….damn shame really.

  • Dreamingcreek

    Nokia is a very poorly managed company. Their C-level team needs an enema. It’s a real shame because their hardware on flagship phones and boutique devices have always been nicely concieved.

    • http://variaatio.tunnus.com/ variaatio

      Nokia was a poorly managed company. current management style is not poor, it is catastrophic. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001272551741 Ogami Itto

    This really sucks. But not for Microsoft, which I’m sure had something to do with this.

    • Alan

      They had everything to do with it!, even here in Indonesia the amount of interest in this phone is astounding, people are constantly asking about it in phone shops and Nokia stores, it was coming and then then oh, no its stopped because now the Windows crap is coming instead, very very angry about it.

  • Anonymous

    i was dreaming of this phone for 2 yrs. now it comes out mentally challenged. awesome.

    ..it didn’t have a badass keyboard on it originally tho. o well

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3C5X3OFKC3OTXQC4KDVWJGLTNI Tom Bates

    I paid $22.85 for an iPhone 4-32GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $674 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, CentHub.com

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