Nokia Flagship Store To Offer High-End Phones in the US!

NYC's 5th Avenue will soon play home to a Nokia Flagship Store. (Applauds loudly).  Not an experience center, but a flagship store where you can find all of the high-end phones that the service providers chose not to offer. 

Chicago will play home to the first store on June 21st with NYC to follow sometime before the years end.  The stores will include high-end phones such as the N93, N91, N73 and N80.  The N93 is said to cost approximately $682 when it goes on sale in July.  This is definately a good move on Nokia's part.  That way consumers can stop getting ripped off on prices.  Can you believe that right now people are paying close to $1000 for an N80 when its going to sell for $620?

"Virtually anything that could possibly be available in this market will be there," said Nokia spokesman Keith Nowak. "The people who work there will be Nokia people, with knowledge that will be deep. And the luxury of having some of these new channels is, it gives us the opportunity to offer products which are a little lower volume, and a little targeted."

I think my only question is, would this also function as a Service Center where consumers can also have their phones flashed and/or repaired if needed?  Hmmmm.

via:  PC Mag

Comments

[Robert Nicholson]

So where's this store going to be then in Chicago? Where the Sony shop use to be? I too would like to get my N80 flashed there when it opens.