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Nokia Lumia 900 Review

By Vinod Khanchandani - 01 Feb 2012

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The Nokia Lumia 900 is a Windows Phone Mango powered handset, which was originally revealed by Stephen Elop, Chief Executive Officer at Nokia at 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. It offers 4G LTE support and is likely to be available in the month of March 2012 in United States and in Australia in mid march.

The Nokia Lumia 900 comes as one of the first Windows Phone smartphones to support LTE connectivity and is also equipped with 4.3-inch WVGA AMOLED display with ClearBlack technology, 1.4GHz processor, polycarbonate unibody in different colors, 1830mAh battery and 16GB of internal memory. The Lumia 900 also gets eight-megapixel camera featuring Carl Zeiss f2.2/28mm lens, and technology known as “double wide mode”, for extra scene width going into your frame.

The Nokia Lumia 900 weighs 5.6 ounces and measures 5 x 2.7 x .45 inches. It is available in cyan and black colors. This powerhouse is built exclusively for AT&T and promises a faster, larger and stronger smartphone experience with its faster processor, support for fastest mobile data transfers available to date and larger screen.

The Nokia Lumia 900 enables data download speeds up to 50Mbps on 4G LTE network of AT&T, which means that you will be able to access videos as fast as you can click on them. It also means that email arrives on time and you aren’t sitting looking at an hourglass. The next step down is HSPA for a mere 21Mbps download speed. Nokia Lumia 900 offers scintillating, large, AMOLED ClearBlack 4.3-inch display, which provides large, crystal clear and super colorful screen indoors and out with 800 x 480 pixel resolution.

Inside the Nokia Lumia 900, you will find a 1.4GHz processor with updated chipset for supporting LTE. It keeps the handset running smooth and ensures everything happens now. For the tech enthusiasts, there is 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8055 + MDM9200 processor. It gets a polycarbonate unibody design pioneered by Nokia N9 and Nokia Lumia 800. It looks amazing and fits comfortably in the hand.

The Nokia Lumia 900 will surely appeal to those who are in the market looking for plenty of features. The eight-megapixel camera features dual LED flash and Carl Zeiss lens along with larger, f2.2/28mm aperture, enabling more light into camera for quicker performance, superior low-light images and lower chance of motion blur. It also supports high resolution video capture for 720p/30fps action footage. The front-facing camera is designed for conference or video calling with f2.4 lens and 30fps capture).

Standard features on Nokia Lumia 900 include 3G Network: HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100; 2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900; 4.3 inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 16 million colors, 480 x 800 pixels and ~217ppi pixel density; 4G Network: LTE 700 MHz Class 17 / 1700 / 2100; Nokia ClearBlack display; Corning Gorilla Glass; HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps, LTE, Cat3, 50 Mbps DL, 25 Mbps UL; 16GB storage, 512 MB RAM; Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango; 8.0-MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics, 3264 x 2448 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED flash and Geo-tagging; Stereo FM radio with RDS; Qualcomm APQ8055 Snapdragon.

The Nokia Lumia 900 also adds SNS integration; MicroSIM card support only; MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA player; Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic; Document viewer/editor; MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player; Voice memo/command/dial; Video/photo editor; Unlimited entries; Predictive text input; Messaging: SMS, MMS, Threaded view, Predictive text input; Organizer: Calendar, Alarm, Document viewer (Office 2007, Office 2003, PDF), Calculator; Notifications: Music ringtones (MP3), Polyphonic ringtones, Vibration, Flight mode, Silent mode, Speakerphone; E-mail: MAP, POP3, SMTP, Microsoft Exchange.

Also standard on Nokia Lumia 900 include Bluetooth 2.1, EDR Profiles: Audio/Video Control Transport Protocol (AVCTP), Advanced Audio Distribution (A2DP), Audio/Visual Remote Control Profile (AVRCP), Audio/Video Distribution Transport Protocol (AVDTP), Handsfree (HFP), Generic Audio/Video Distribution (GAVDP), Phone Book Access (PBAP), Headset (HSP) and Serial Port (SPP) and Sensors: Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Compass; Hearing aid compatibility: M3, T3, Voice dialing, Voice commands, Voice recording.

The rated battery life of Nokia Lumia 900 is 7 hours in talktime mode and 300 hours in standby mode.