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Rumor: Retail store employees at Carphone Warehouse, 3 and Vodafone say N97 experiencing high level of returns

Categories: Nokia
By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, July 16th, 2009 at 4:19 AM

I’m labeling this story as a rumor because I’ve never heard of Mobile Today. They’ve just published a story saying “staff in Carphone Warehouse, 3 and Vodafone said there had been a high level of returns” of the Nokia N97 due to software bugs. Can anyone working at these stores, or people in the UK mobile scene do some poking around?

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Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Chris P

    Like all N series. Ha.

  • Tahir

    Friend of mine has a 3 N97 and the inability to upgrade the firmware is causing him grief.

    If the networks updated their branded firmware and offered ongoing support rather than leaving users in the lurch like I was with my signal dropping e71, then these returns would reduce significantly.

  • Darius

    Mobile Today is a genuine site. The news they publish is aimed people within the industy.

  • Matt Jones

    No offence but take this with a pinch of salt. There’s no buttons on the system that says “Returned due to customer not being able to use it.”

    Just a thought.

  • JC

    I believe it… I bought the N79 but had to return it because it kept freezing up on me which made me have to pop out the battery and restart it every time… my other Nokia 6267′s music player stopped working after a couple of months… I don’t think Nokia is very good at quality control…