Windows Phone is only about a year and a half old in the market at this
point but Nokia has a much longer lineage. In the past 12 months though,
their two worlds have collided in a fashion that will have
repercussions for quite some time to come, with Nokia
CEO Stephen Elop firmly committed to focusing his company's turnaround
on what Microsoft is cooking up in Redmond for handsets.It has been, and will continue to be, a long shot. Nokia's smartphone market share in America has eroded so severely that many consumers have assumed that Nokia has pulled out of this market entirely, ceding ground to Apple and the myriad companies that have backed Google's Android platform.
But the Lumia 900 represents something important for both Microsoft and Nokia: hope. The first wave of Windows Phone handsets were interesting to the hardcore tech followers, but few mainstream consumers seemed to care. By all accounts, Windows Phone 7 wasn't really ready for prime time. It was launched in time for a holiday shopping season, but it lacked the polish of iOS and Android. At launch, there was no support for threaded e-mail, no support for multiple calendars, no integrated Twitter support, and the list goes on
| Processor and memory | 1.4GHz single-core Snapdragon processor 1GB internal ROM, 512MB internal RAM 16 GB internal memory included (non-expandable) |
| Operating System | Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) |
| Connectivity | LTE Band 17 (700) LTE Band 4 (1700/2100) GSM/EDGE: 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz UMTS: 850/900/1700/1900 HSDPA (21.1Mbps) / HSUPA Bluetooth 2.1+EDR Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n) GPS with navigation capability microUSB |
| Display | 4.3-inch WVGA ClearBlack OLED Screen (480x800) |
| Size and weight | 5" x 2.7" x 0.45" 5.6 ounces |
| Cameras and multimedia | 8 megapixel rear-facing camera with HD camcorder VGA front-facing camera Internet Explorer (no Flash support) 3.5mm headset jack |
| Battery | 1830mAh Li-ion |
| Availability | Available from AT&T ($199.99 [16GB] on 2-year contract) |
| In-Box Content | Battery Charger USB Cable Stereo Headset |