Belle FP2 is still unavailable.

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I'm in Srilanka, I'm using a Nokia 603. I frequently check in Software update and device manager for Belle FP2 but its still not available
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Cartier001 is right to point out that no FP2 variants have yet been produced for Hong Kong, Taiwan (where I live) or the  PRC. One explanation for this is that FP2 makes fundamental changes to keyboards, and these three variants obviously all have Chinese input, which may need extra testing etc. Another possible explanation is that we are not regarded as important enough. Annoyingly Nokia plugs FP2 on the support sections of its web sites in these countries even though it is not available.
Effortful is unfortunately correct to point out that lots of people still do not have FP1. There are lots of posts about that here. This thread (one of many on the subject) is one that I started and has regular new posts of users who still haven't received it.
http://discussions.nokia.com/t5/Software-Updates/Nokia-603-700-or-701-without-FP1-please-post-countr...
Adrianhughes is right to say that availability of Nokia's updates depends on country and operator variants, but wrong in suggesting that it would be any use to contact your local Nokia care. Unless there really is some technical problem with your phone, they invariably just tell you to keep checking.
FP1 was not delivered in Taiwan unti more than six months after it was announced. I wrote to Stephen Elop to complain about the poor service in this respect four months after its first announcement and got an email back  from him the same day, followed by a call by someone very polite but with no concrete information. I wrote again two months later and got no reply from Mr Elop, but I did have a call from Nokia less than a week later saying that the software had eventually been released for my phone. 
Concretely my advice to people in Sri Lanka is to try and find out whether your country has its own Nokia phone variants (Nokia care or your operator might tell you this, or you might find it on the internet somewhere) or whether you use Indian phones. If you have Indian phones then FP2 should be available and you should ask your operator where it is.
My adivce to Effortful is to kick up as much fuss as possible, here on these boards, with your local Nokia care and by writing to the head of Nokia in the US or to Stephen Elop if you have to. It really is disgraceful that FP1 is not available yet and that noone is willing to say why not or when it will be. I would do this, but as I have it now, I am arguing from a weak position.
Unfortunately, those of us in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan will just have to keep on waiting for FP2; we waited more than six months for FP1, so the current delay hasn't really registered yet.
Alan