The elegant corner taper is a little less gradual and striking, and the curved glass on the 800 is replaced with a 4.3" Gorilla Glass flat panel with a raised edge. The design is perfection on the smaller Lumia 800, and loses just a little appeal and one-handed comfort when stretched to 4.3 inches. The Lumia 900 looks nearly identical to the smaller Nokia Lumia 800 sold overseas and the Nokia N9 (its MeeGo OS twin). Nokia knows high end design, and the unibody polycarbonate casing available in black, cyan and white, is a sharp study in modern minimalism. The Nokia Lumia 900 is a little piece of modern art. The smartphone runs Windows Phone 7.5 Mango and it has a GPS, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and WiFi 802.11b/g/n as well as an FM radio. For a flagship phone, it sells for a remarkably low $99 on contract and $449 without contract. The Nokia Lumia 900 is available on AT&T in the US and it has a 4.3" Super AMOLED ClearBlack display, a 1.4GHz CPU, 16 gigs of storage and LTE 4G. We're seeing about 350 new apps added daily and Microsoft expects to reach the 100k mark in weeks. But will users buy a phone whose app ecosystem is currently dwarfed by iOS and Android's? Perhaps there's nothing to worry about: apps on the Marketplace are proliferating like bunnies at Easter. If the Lumia 900 sells like hotcakes, more developers will jump on board with great apps and expand that ecosystem. The only problem? It's a chicken and egg thing: there are only about 80,000 apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace because the OS has relatively little marketshare.
Now we've got the features: cut and paste, multitasking and support for fast LTE 4G data networks and Redmond seems poised for a comeback. When Windows Phone 7 landed in the fall of 2010, it boasted a unique UI, fast performance and the expected excellent support for MS services, but the hardware seemed dated and important features were missing. That's the power of Nokia and the relentless evolution of Microsoft's reborn mobile OS. Windows Phone goes from obscurity to the limelight, just like that.
2012: read our review of the Nokia Lumia 920 that replaces the Lumia 900. WiFi flaky with our AirPort Extreme access points. What's not: Battery life could be better, we need more Windows Phone apps. What's hot: Unique and lovely design, durable, fast, excellent voice quality, good camera and fast 4G LTE. Home > Windows Phone Reviews > Nokia Lumia 900
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