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Nokia’s Indian giving: Everyone at the Maemo Summit gets a Nokia N900, has to return it in 6 months

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By: , IntoMobile
Friday, October 9th, 2009 at 1:55 AM

The Maemo Summit is currently taking place in Amsterdam right now and I’m watch the live coverage pouring out of the recently launched All About Maemo website. One thing that strikes me as odd is that Nokia is giving everyone at the show a pre production Nokia N900, but then they’re expected to return it after 6 months. Besides being a logistical nightmare, why is this being done? Does Nokia not have enough money? We’ll find out how Nokia’s doing financially on the 15th of October when they release their Q3 results. How do you think Google Android developers would have felt if they all left the Google I/O conference knowing they only had a limited time to play with their free devices? Talk about Indian giving.

[Photo above taken by Mark Guim from The Nokia Blog]

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Stefan Constantinescu

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.

  • Varun

    LOL

    I tot Nokia India is giving away N900s at first :D

    6 months is pretty good !

  • Steven Hoober

    Read more fine print. I’ve seen other giveaways (sadly, hardly ever to me) that were like this. It gets around having to declare the expensive item a gift to your company, government agency, etc.

    In practice, they then hardly ever ask for them back. It’s a de facto gift.