It has been confirmed by Nokia: the smartphone with the most buzz at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show will be heading to retailers in March.
The Nokia Lumia 900 is a great example of an exciting new version of a phone almost up to the current Apple and Droid standards, so let’s take a close look at it.
Nokia is still hush-hush on the price tag of this sexy phone for AT&T customers – it looks and feels like the previous generation iPod Nano, with its sleek polycarbonate shell and shape. Their previous model, the Lumia 710, has gone down to less than fifty bucks, or free in some cases, so the Lumia 900 is expected to range from a buck fifty to two hundred samolians with a two year service contract.
Put plainly, if the Nokia 900 is less than two hundred dollars, then it will be a more affordable alternative to Apple and the Android’s champion Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket phone (currently $199 with a new two-year contract), and if it is not . . . well, it probably will not sell well.
Make no mistake the Nokia Lumia 900 is an impressive step forward for all of the other guys in the cell phone market battleground, but does it come up to snuff with the Android and Apple revolution?
Firstly, be prepared to take a bite out of the Mango operating system, because the newest smartphone from Nokia is running on Windows (yes, the same that bricked thousands of phones with a mere software update last year).
The 4.3-inch AMOLED screen is gorgeous to see, and HUGE, but it only tops out at a resolution of 800 x 480. Though Apple has yet to go with a more shiny OLED display or go over 3.5-inches, the Nokia’s pixel resolution pales in comparison to the iPhone 4S’s of 960 x 640.
The big upside that Nokia showed off is the Lumia 900’s LTE 4G setup, which is extremely fast. But the processor – though much improved over even Apple with a 1.4 GHZ processor (compare to the iPhone 4S’s 1 GHZ) – is reliant on shoddy Windows software that does not yet come close to being as intuitive as Android, let alone Apple. The Lumia 900 cannot even record video at 1080P HD (Nokia’s is 720P), but wait . . . it does include . . . a Zune player?
Should we spit this Mango-phone back?
