Nokia 8600 goes up for preorder

by Chris Ziegler, posted May 28th 2007 at 1:50PM

Yo, Nokia, anyone home? One of the world's largest independent retailers of cellphones is thoroughly outing your 8600 here, and you seem to just be sitting idly by without an official announcement in sight. No bother; we guess the important thing is the phone, not the announcement -- we're just not totally used to it going down this way. As a refresher, the 8600 (codenamed "Luna") looks to be Nokia's newest piece of high-end envy, likely slotting in just below the 8800 Sirocco to satisfy the needs of the "I can't quite afford a Vertu" set. Carphone Warehouse's preorder site confirms that it'll have a 2 megapixel camera, 128MB of onboard storage, media player with integrated FM radio, A2DP, and a quadband GSM radio -- refreshing to see after North America got slighted with the Sirocco's tri-band internals. Depending on the selected O2 plan, prices range from zilch all the way up to £299.99 (about $596). For a phone this attractive, we're really liking the sound of "free."

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, GSM, GPRS, EDGE

Tags: 8600, carphone warehouse, CarphoneWarehouse, luna, nokia, preorder

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stefsee @ May 28th 2007 2:48PM

i emailed this into you 2 days ago:)
how cum we dont get any credit for givingyou the inofomation,, bit unfair:(

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Chris Ziegler @ May 28th 2007 4:34PM

stefsee, our apologies - our tipsters are the soul of this site and we certainly didn't mean to shortchange you. That being said, I can't seem to find your tip, but rest assured that we didn't purposefully ignore it.

Chris

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Alexander @ May 28th 2007 8:05PM

American phones are so ugly compared with the phones of the rest of the world.

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Jeff Snugglebutton @ May 28th 2007 11:08PM

That's just the way it is I told them about the iphone coming out on June 26th like 3 months ago and they keep saying the 11th or something crazy like that...They are just mad, they've been using that mind machine x-ray see through your girls panties glasses.

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Vish @ May 30th 2007 6:22AM

I work for carphone warehouse the phone is going to be out tomorrow i had a hands on exp of the phone it looks alrte no gr8 specs i feel its priced to high now and guess wat its exclusive to us

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