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Hands On: Initial Impressions Of The Lumia 900

By - On 5 March 2012 4 Comments

In all the excitement around the 808 PureView that I have already covered in a fair amount of detail (with still more to come), another device was also announced – Nokia’s new Windows Phone flagship, the Lumia 900. Its the same smartphone that was announced at CES as an AT&T exclusive, and now it is coming to the rest of the world, albeit without the LTE radios.

All other specifications like the 4.3″ Clear Black display, a 1.4 Ghz processor, a 8 Megapixel Carl Zeiss AF camera, 1830 mAh battery, and the polycarbonate construction remain the same. Compared to the Lumia 800, it has a larger screen (3.7″ v 4.3″) that unlike the Lumia 800 isn’t curved. It also packs a bigger battery, and slight modifications to the design where the microUSB port and no longer hidden under a lid. The SIM card slot is also now akin to something like the iPhone.

The processor and RAM remain the same and the device will also ship with Windows Phone Mango, however, it will support internet tethering or WIFI hotspot out of the box. I spent some hands on time with the device at the Mobile World Congress, and here are my initial impressions.

Please bear in mind that the above device was a prototype and not running the final firmware.

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  • Dino said:

    What radio frequency is the Nokia Lumia 900 International using to connect to networks? What US frequencies are supported?

  • Vaibhav Sharma (author) said:

    The international variant of the Lumia 900 ships with DC-HSPA with support for 42 mbps networks.

    Networks: WCDMA 850/900/1900/2100, GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
    Speed: HSDPA+ Dual Carrier cat 24 (42 Mbps), HSUPA cat 6: 5.8 Mbps

  • Deepesh Nataraj said:

    hi vaibhav,
    Nice intro onto the lumia 900.Loved it…i cudnt help but notice..towards the end when u switched on the camera for the lumia 900…i cud notice a slight pink hue on the center of the screen ( center of the camera point focus)…these issues have been therewithe galaxy s2 tooo.

  • Unboxing The White Lumia 900 | The Handheld Blog said:

    [...] parts of the world, and I expect to be stores in India by the beginning of June. I’ve played with the international non LTE version of the Lumia 900 before, but its finally here in retail packaging, and in the video below, I do the customary unboxing. [...]

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