Nokia is reportedly gearing up to ship its flagship high-end 12-megapixel camera phone in the UK this month – and has apparently let slip its SIM-free price.
NokNok has screenshots of a Google Ad promoting Nokia N8 pre-orders on the Nokia Online UK site and the statement that it will be in stock and ready to ship on September 23.
Release date
This seems to be backed up by source code on the N8 product page on Nokia UK website stating: “/NOKIA_UK_23/EUROPE_NOKIA_COM_3…buynow-429simfree.png”
Interestingly, there’s also a line in the source code that refers to the phone being free on £35-a-month Pay Monthly contract.
While the information is not yet live on the Nokia site and has not been officially released by Nokia, it does tie-in with prices given by retailers and is slightly more expensive than in other countries.
MobileShop.com had previously reported that the Nokia N8 had ‘end of September’ release dates on Nokia’s French, Polish, German and Italian websites.
Price
The phone is €459 (£379) on the French Nokia site, €479 (£396) on the German Nokia site, 1,999.00 Poland Zlotych (£419) on the Polish Nokia site and €469 (£388).
The N8 has a 12-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and an Xenon flash, HD video capture and a HDMI port for streaming video and images to your TV, Dolby Digital Surround sound support, a Symbian^ 3 operating system for much faster browsing and well integrated Ovi services and apps.
While the phone is yet to go on pre-order in the UK it’s featuring on Vodafone and T-Mobile’s ‘Coming Soon’ pages.
It’s likely to be officially announced at the Nokia World conference this month, with the code slip a clever ploy to keep the Nokia N8 in the press whilst IFA is running.
Clever ploy or hapless mistake Nokia will be hoping it keeps people interested enough to stop them getting an iPhone 4, Samsung Galaxy S or HTC Desire instead.
Compare the latest Nokia Pay Monthly deals with MobileShop.com.
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September 5th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
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