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S710 US arrival date and price
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Posted by: Dster

$449 USD
Mid-April

http://www.mobileplanet.com/p.aspx?i=145682

Do people have good experiences with Expansys?

Anyone with experience ordering from the Canadian Expansys website?

Posted by: bocastephen

Is it just me, or is anyone else having a hard time getting to mobileplanet.com or any of the expansys websites?

Posted by: Dster

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Originally Posted by bocastephen

Is it just me, or is anyone else having a hard time getting to mobileplanet.com or any of the expansys websites?

no problems here.

Posted by: ARHYTHMATIK

Where does it say April? Mobileplanet.com says "order upon request". Maybe I'm missing something or they recently changed it?

NEVERMIND-- I found where it says mid-April!

Posted by: bocastephen

My problem was DNS related...I can get to the site from work.

Anyway, I'm sure Expansys won't be the only company willing to bring it over here. I do find something interesting in their approach - they are bringing it over as ordered, and not keeping stock here. It sounds like they don't expect this phone to be a hot seller in North America. I wonder why.

Posted by: ARHYTHMATIK

Yeah-- I wonder the same thing. The device really is revolutionary in it's form factor and having WM6 Smartphone makes it almost one-of-a-kind right now. I think it's because all the major carriers have already picked up their token smartphone that's supposed to compete with the Q (i.e Blackjack, Dash, etc.)

If this device had 3G- forget it. It would be hands down the best device out there in my opinion.

Posted by: jvanbrecht

In my experiance with them, they are slightly pricier then other sources, and rarely get the release date correct.

Posted by: bocastephen

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Originally Posted by jvanbrecht

In my experiance with them, they are slightly pricier then other sources, and rarely get the release date correct.

Which other sources would you recommend for getting this phone...even if they don't have it on their site yet.

Posted by: plessdude

Get yourself a calendar, a dartboard and three darts. Stand 15 feet from the dartboard and blindfold yourself. Drink a 5th of gin. Spin around 100 times and throw the darts at the calendar. Congrats!!!! You are now 10% more accurate than Expansys at predicting delivery dates on phones.

Posted by: Dster

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Originally Posted by bocastephen

Anyway, I'm sure Expansys won't be the only company willing to bring it over here. I do find something interesting in their approach - they are bringing it over as ordered, and not keeping stock here. It sounds like they don't expect this phone to be a hot seller in North America. I wonder why.

I gave them a call and asked them about this -- they said that even though it says "ordered on request", that's just a placeholder until the stock comes in.

Also, the S710 is on the Canadian Expansys site as of today.

Hopefully they are more accurate than drunken dart throwers on this -- I don't know if I can wait much past mid-April!

Also, has anyone had trouble with Expansys orders for phones that the website actually says are in stock?