What a shame!

---

Yes it's a shame that the globalized Google decided to sell N1 in USA and GB only...available in the rest of Europe in the spring...
Really I can't understand why after cloning iPhone customization (and not only...) Google decided also to clone the commercial strategy of the earliest Iphone 2G...Soon Apple realized that there were more iphone in Europe than in USA LOL!!!

Now how to get one in Italy? Who want to buy one for me...
THX in advance!

check e-bay...many on there for sale with worldwide shipping

Originally Posted by icon57

check e-bay...many on there for sale with worldwide shipping

What about the activation button? Does anyone know if there is some kind of activation that binds the phone to the google account from where it is bought (or is this button only for the t-mobile phone)?

Is there anything else to consider before buying it (except the high price) from ebay and using it in Europe?

Originally Posted by icon57

check e-bay...many on there for sale with worldwide shipping

Thanx for your answer.
I checked ebay and it would cost about 250$ over the real price. Really too much.

no, it only binds it to your google checkout account, not your gmail account.
so you will be able to activate it where you are

It may suck but different markets get different phones at different times. I don't know how many times I have seen a really cool phone only to discover that it will never hit the shores here in the US. This time it worked out that we got the phone.

I guess it comes down to you win some you loose some.

Originally Posted by sennister

It may suck but different markets get different phones at different times. I don't know how many times I have seen a really cool phone only to discover that it will never hit the shores here in the US. This time it worked out that we got the phone.

I guess it comes down to you win some you loose some.

Yes maybe you are right...but not considering a whole market like europe...like italy, where people go on purcheasing technology also in a bad economic period, would be an error!

Let me get one first. Then I can get into shipping out of country. I own an IT business and I have create multiple google accounts under that and perhaps get 5 for each account I make up. I want to make sure the phone can be activated etc before I start ordering phones that may not work later (screwing me and screwing others).

Originally Posted by icon57

no, it only binds it to your google checkout account, not your gmail account.
so you will be able to activate it where you are

That means you have to activate it with the same checkout acc that buys the phone or just that you have to activate it with an us, uk, .. account?

Originally Posted by seraph1024

Let me get one first. Then I can get into shipping out of country. I own an IT business and I have create multiple google accounts under that and perhaps get 5 for each account I make up. I want to make sure the phone can be activated etc before I start ordering phones that may not work later (screwing me and screwing others).

You have a PM