Black Nokia N82 now available through online stores

A few weeks ago Nokia launched the Nokia N82 in black, expected to “start shipping within weeks’, which usually means 2-3 weeks later. Most major online mobile stores still don’t seem to have it in stock and are still charging a premium on the silver beauty. With a lot of you asking about the black version I decided to do a little search at some of online store, and apparently Phonesource-USA is confirmed to have the black N82 and even the white model in stock and ready to be shipped. Buyers outside of the US should be happy to learn that they ship internationally. Both the white and black version seem to be going for just a few dollars more than the original platinum silver. If you’re interested in the black N82 (and I know a lot of you are!)head on over to Phonesource-USA. What online stores do you know of that have the N82 in stock?

Update: As for the package content I learned that not much has changed and reportedly includes the same 2GB microSD card as the Platinum Silver N82. So no extras. No word on the box art, but this is expected to be different.

Update 2: Having bought several times from Phonesource-USA, I know that all of their phones are from the APAC region (Asia-Pacific) and that sometimes the phones have Asian marking on the keypad. Sometimes you can request either getting Asian markings or not. I have heard reports that indeed these Black N82 have Asian marking. So I suggest you taking Mike’s advice from the Nokia N82 blog to give them a call or shooting them an email before pressing that buy button.

Comments

[Matt]

An anonymous poster at then82blog.com says that he emailed PhoneSourceUSA and they confirmed that they were selling the asian version.

http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=718869843100752928&postID=9173335977412940144&isPopup=true

I also found this over at reseller ratings.
http://www.resellerratings.com/forum/showthread.php?s=f5263faad35252eb89321d55e0988c2d&t=123938&page=2

Less than flattering information. The article indicates that if you get sent the wrong thing from them it will be hard to get your money back. My experience with these smaller scale electronic companies on the internet has not been good. Not sure what to do. I'm starting to think I'll just buy the old color n82 from Best Buy and cough up the extra $100.

What do you think?

[Devin Balentina]

Matt, this is indeed true.
So you might give them a call before buying.
They sometimes give you the option of choosing.

Devin

[Matt]

Mike over at then82blog.com says that the n82 carried by the PhoneSourceUSA are the asian version. Is this true? Did you order one yourself from there?