Rating 4.1 88 reviews
Manufacturer: Nokia
review.goodgearguide.com.au
14 years ago

The Nokia Lumia 900 is a critical release for both Nokia and Microsoft. The former is aiming to turn around dwindling market share, while the latter is trying to compete with popular iOS and Android rivals.
Pros:
  • Large 4.3in screen
  • Superb design and build
  • Good performance
Cons:
  • Low screen res for a flagship
  • Web browser below many rivals
  • No memory card slot or removable battery
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HotHardware
14 years ago

Nokia Lumia 900 Smartphone Review

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...
Pros:
  • Sharp
  • sleek design
  • Gorgeous 4.3-inch OLED touchscreen
  • WP7 is fluid and beautiful
  • Priced right
Cons:
  • Lower-res screen
  • Cannot add storage
  • No carrier options other than AT&T
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Ars Technica
14 years ago

The Nokia Lumia 900 review

The Nokia Lumia 900 has the weight of two big names on its shoulders. It's Nokia's big re-entry into the US market; it's also the flagship Windows Phone Mango in this country. In anticipatory articles, you can hardly find the term "Lumia 900" separated from the word "premium.
Pros:
  • The polycarbonate case is sturdy
  • has good form and texture
  • Solid battery life
  • Screen is pretty and saturated with a good level of detail
  • and better for outdoor viewing
  • Free Nokia travel apps are surprisingly useful
  • The phone overall is quick and responsive
  • with fluid transitions
Cons:
  • Speaker is a little quiet
  • Camera's indoor and closeup shots can be rough
  • and flash sometimes triggers when it doesn't really need to
  • Takes a long time to charge the battery to 100 percent
  • Browser makes the non-mobile Web look kind of ugly
  • Windows Phone OS design is information-sparse compared...
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Pocketnow
14 years ago

Nokia Lumia 900 Review (AT&T)

Many Americans who follow the smartphone world were disappointed last year when Nokia released the Lumia 800. They were disappointed that it wasn't available in North America but also because it didn't have things like a front-facing camera, LTE high speed internet access, or a larger screen.
Pros:
  • + Beautiful hardware design
Cons:
  • - Non-replaceable battery
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Canadian Reviewer
14 years ago

Review: Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone

Nokia's Lumia 900 Windows Phone is currently the best device running the Windows mobile OS. For Nokia, it is a flagship product and a showcase of their focus on design and engineering.
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LaptopMemo
14 years ago

Nokia Lumia 900 Review

Price as Reviewed: $99 on AT&T with a new, 2-year agreement. Thanks AT&T PR reps for the device! The Design Sleek polycarbonate sculpted into a single case to house all of the device's internals, the Lumia 900 is a beautiful smartphone to behold.
Pros:
  • Unbelievable design
  • Windows Phone's speed
  • LTE network superb
  • Decent battery life
Cons:
  • The Marketplace needs more
  • better apps
  • Cameras could have been better
  • even they're alright
  • Odd arrangement of volume rocker
  • power
  • and camera buttons
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Gizmodo
13 years ago

Nokia Lumia 900 Review: Can The Lumia 800′s Big Brother Deliver?

The Nokia Lumia 900 is here, but is it worth the hype? Can it, as our US counterparts say, save Nokia and Microsoft from the smartphone backwater to which they have been relegated?
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phonedog.com
13 years ago

Nokia Lumia 900 Written Review by Aaron

This is make or break time for Nokia , particularly in the US market, where their inability to ink high-end smartphone partnerships with carriers in recent years has diminished their once-powerful name to articles referencing their demise.  It's a pricey gamble, but if Nokia releases high-end phones
Pros:
  • Excellent build quality
  • great price point
  • strong battery life for a 4G LTE smartphone
  • nice display
Cons:
  • Camera could use some work
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What Mobile
13 years ago

Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone review

were well-received debuts for Nokia's first Windows Phone range back in 2011. The Nokia Lumia 900 is even more significant as it's the first Nokia Lumia flagship phone for the all-important US market. And it's now arrived in the UK.
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GSM Arena
13 years ago

Nokia Lumia 900 review: Europass

It took the Nokia Lumia 900 just a few days to top the US sales charts and see delighted handshakes quickly turn into group hugs, as Nokia, Microsoft and AT&T, which carries it exclusively stateside, were busy celebrating the flagship's performance in recent months.
Pros:
  • Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
  • Quad-band 3G with 42 Mbps HSDPA and 5.7 Mbps HSUPA support
  • 4.3" 16M-color AMOLED capacitive touchscreen of 480 x 800 pixel resolution
  • Scratch resistant Gorilla glass display with anti-glare polarizer
  • 8 megapixel autofocus camera with dual LED flash
  • 720p@27fps
Cons:
  • Won't get WP 8
  • No USB mass storage (Zune only file management and sync
  • No native video calls
  • Non-user-replaceable battery
  • No memory card slot (and no 64GB version like the N9
  • microSIM card slot
  • No native DivX/XviD support
  • videos have to be transcoded by Zune
Read more on GSM Arena
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