Hardware and Features

Under the hood, the Lumia 900 boasts a 1.4 GHz Qualcomm CPU, 512 MB of RAM, and 16 GB of on-board storage. It sports front and rear-facing cameras as you’d expect from any phone, as well as a few aesthetic touches that are lacking in other phones on the market at the moment for the same price. One thing that strikes you immediately when seeing the Lumia 900 for the first time is its effortless class. It just looks solid, despite the lack of brushed aluminum. It’s one of the slimmest smartphones phones available on the market, and comes in a distinctive cyan tone that’s tough to forget.

Software, UI, and More

Once released into the wild, the Lumia 900 will be running the excellent Windows Phone 7.5 operating system, one that’s gaining market share and consumers every day. According to MBA Online, Understanding market context is necessary for implementing innovative products. Microsoft understood that a competitive operating system today needed visible icons and informative home screens, and Windows Phone does just that. That alone should give potential buyers a reason to at least give it a shot. Aside from WP7′s technical merits, it’s particularly peppy on the Lumia 900. Microsoft doesn’t really get enough credit for WP7, because it really is a decent operating system. It looks great, and performs even better. It’s a bit of a change of pace from Android or iOS, but it’s well worth making the effort. Mango’s tile-based interface is easily one of the slickest mobile experiences you can get nowadays.

Network and Carriers

Like the Nokia Lumia 710 before it, the 900 will come on AT&T’s still-evolving 4G network. At present, the 4G layout of AT&T’s wireless setup is obviously behind that of Verizon. However, that’s hardly the drawback that many make it out to be. AT&T offers much the same speeds that can be achieved in certain areas on Verizon, though that’s more or less only applicable in urban areas. Elsewhere, you’ll have to rely on Ma Bell’s 3G HSPA+ service to get you through the night. Still, 3G with AT&T can be appreciably better than with other networks, as some field tests will attest.

Final Thoughts

The Nokia Lumia 900 has many things going for it, and none of them are particularly superlative in their own categories. The hardware isn’t dominant, the operating system isn’t Android, and AT&T isn’t really the best 4G network. The Lumia 900 is generating such massive levels of enthusiasm due in large part to its flawless execution. Some times these things happen by design, and other times by happenstance. Regardless, the Lumia 900 running WP7 is one of the most promising phones of 2012. Absent a gigantic solar flare that renders the world’s telecommunications infrastructure useless, it’ll be a hit because it’s one of the best overall phones to come along in a long time.

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• Nokia Drop Ovi Brand in Favour of Nokia Services – May 19, 2011
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We hope to have more details on the release in the coming days.

• Samsung Rumoured to be Acquiring Nokia – June 8, 2011
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There are a lot of reports this morning that Samsung are preparing to acquire Nokia. Nokia recently signed with Microsoft to produce Windows Phone 7 devices and it seems like Microsoft could even be a potential buyer. However, it seems as though Samsung are interested in Nokia and very close to closing a deal.

I cant see Microsoft acquiring Nokia and making their own device, so Samsung is the perfect match for the company. Im quite surprised HTC havent thought about putting together a syndicate.

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Sometimes I really think Nokia doesn’t have an overall strategy! Nokia has decided to drop the Ovi brand all together. Nokia says it’s done with the Ovi brand:

“By centralizing our services identity under one brand, not two, we will reinforce the powerful master brand of Nokia and unify our brand architecture— while continuing to deliver compelling opportunities and experiences for partners and consumers alike,” said Nokia’s chief marketing officer Jerri DeVard, in the company blog.

I guess it is a little less confusing, but why drop a brand you have been promoting for the past four years? Im not really sure this change is going to help Nokia’s share price which has been struggling to gain ground at all in the past year.

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Video in French.

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All the user needs to do is install the Nokia Drop application on their phone and install a browser extension on their desktop. The browser extension is available in both Firefox and Chrome.

• Nokia Lumia 900 Preview – January 23, 2012
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Nokia has just launched the E7 in the USA. US consumers can now purchase the E7 from all good Nokia retailers. The E7 was released in Europe back in February, but it was held back for US consumers.

The E7 features:

• Symbian
• 4 inch screen
• AMOLED display 640 x 360 pixel resolution.
• Quadband GSM radio
• Wifi, Bluetooth
• 16GB of onboard storage
• 8mp camera
• 720p video recording
• dual-LED flash

The E7 is available from Amazon.com for $649, or Nokia USA for $679.

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Recently Nokia partnered with Microsoft to start releasing handsets on the Windows Phone 7 platform. It was expected that the first release batch would happen in 2011, but it seems as though we probably wont see any Nokia Windows Phone 7 devices until 2012.

Nokia India has confirmed that it is currently working on a 12 month time frame to release the first Windows Phone 7 devices.

Nokia had to make some serious changes, because they seem to losing marketshare and also losing in the platform wars, with Symbian just not performing against the rest.

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SlashGear is reporting that Nokia has sent out an email to Nokia Launchpad program members which details on the company offering free Nokia E7 handsets.

Email sent to developers, detailed:

We are also excited to offer you one free admission to the next Nokia World/Nokia Developer Summit later this year. We will take care of the registration costs.

To assist you with your development activities in the near-term, we will ship one free Nokia E7 device to all program members. Additionally, we will send to you one free Nokia WP7 device, as soon as it becomes available.

To accelerate your mobile app development, we will provide free tech support on all Nokia technologies for the next three months (up to 10 tickets). Equally, if you would like to take advantage of a free User Experience evaluation of one of your apps, please let us know and we will work with you to make those arrangements.

I might have to quickly become a Nokia developer!

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• Samsung Rumoured to be Acquiring Nokia – June 8, 2011
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The N97 model represented, and still does, a worthy competitor with some high tech cellphones like iPhone or Motorola Milestone. Here are some of the features that the Mini Gold Edition will include:

• 3.2” Touchscreen with a 320×640 resolution.
• 8GB memory.
• QWERTY keyboard.
• microSD slot.
• 5MP Zeiss camera.
• WiFi and Bluetooth.
• USB 2.0
• Support Ovi services.

The release date is estimated in the second half of this year, but the bad news is that it will be only available in Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa.

Pricing will be around U$S850.

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“There’s already a bunch of great retro gaming emulator apps available for you to download,” says the video voiceover which clearly shows options to use emulators for consoles such as the NES, SNES and GameBoy.

SO Nintendo got a little angry. But to be honest, I think they’re taking this too far. If anything, they should be considering releasing emulators for old-school games on smart phones like the have with the Wii. There’s definitely a market there and people would definitely jump at an official emulator rather than a third party one which is difficult to set up.

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The Nokia CEO said “the PC and the mobile will continue to come closer and merge.”

NetBooks are becoming increasingly popular over the past few years. People need more mobility than ever. When their smart phone doesn’t quite pack the punch they need they can take out their thin 11” netbook.

A netbook from Nokia might not be such a bad idea. I would imagine it would run windows XP given the limited computing power available on netbooks. If they were to release one, their very image as a mobile phone company would certainly rub off on a small, portable netbook.

However, I wouldn’t get my hopes up just yet until we hear back from Nokia. Many times companies have announced plans that have never bore fruit.

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Samsung did a great job slimming the Tocco down to the Tocco Lite. Now, there are rumours buzzing around the Nokia may have done the same with their new N97 Smartphone.

Pictures, which were nabbed by Engadget show what is being called the N97 Mini. The Picture shows a smaller N97(perhaps around 20-25% smaller) next to its bigger brother. It appears as through the D-Pad has been moved, along with smaller keys grouped closer together.

I’d much prefer to have the Mini rather than the original as long as it still had 3G. Sure I’d be making a cut back in performance and screen size but hey, it’s a recession out there!

Nokia haven’t said much except for just hmm and ahh at these pictures. These rumours were reportedly first uttered by a Vodafone employee on a forum earlier this week. If they are true, we’re in for one heck of a cool phone. But then, this could just be some cheap Chinese knock-off that looks like the N97.

• Nokia N97 Mini Gold Edition – February 27, 2010
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The company bigwigs decided enough was enough and flat out denied any rumors that they would be releasing an Android phone onto the market at the Nokia World event in Germany this coming September. A report stating these predictions in The Guardian has been responded to by Nokia. “There is no truth to this story whatsoever. It is a well known fact that Symbian is our platform of choice for smartphones”, said Nokia in a statement to TechRadar.

For a company to make such bold statements about its own future in the mass media it’s almost a sure thing that Nokia won’t be using the Android platform anytime in the near (or distant) future, preferring to stick to its own developments. As for the meantime, Nokia are continuing in their development of a new platform of their own called Maemo OS for their internet tablets. Outsourcing is not one of Nokia’s favourite habits.

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