Nokia and AT&T introduce the Lumia 900
4.3" ClearBlack AMOLED, 4G LTE, exclusive to AT&T
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BREAKING NEWS
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CES 2012 | Las Vegas | Jan 9, 2012



OK, curtains up! Finally, our beloved colorful - unibody - Sleek - Blazingly fast twins [the N9 & Lumia 800 combine] get their younger brother for the U.S. markets... and Globally that too. This time, probably everything is set right! Away from the long hide-n-seek, selective constipated launches of this truly Nokia flagship design marvel... And boy! Though not Harmattan - it surely is quite comparative to our N9, vis-a-vis its cellular presence - yes, it supports T-Mobile's LTE Band-4, 1700MHz - so we (Canadians, looking to breakaway from the Big-3s monopoly, stand happily covered) - A big thank you to Nokia!

TECH SPECS

Operating Frequency
GSM: (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900)
WCDMA Band-I: (2100)
WCDMA Band-II: (1900)
WCDMA Band-V: (850)
WCDMA Band-VIII: (900)
LTE Band-17: (700)
LTE Band-4: (1700/2100)

CPU / Hardware
Processor: Single, 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8055 + MDM9200 (WCDMA)
RAM: 512MB (Uh!)
OS: Windows Phone Release 7.5 – Mango
Storage: 16GB internal memory (14.5GB user memory) + SkyDrive cloud storage (no micro-SD slot !)

Dimensions
Height: 5.03"
Width: 2.7"
Thickness: 0.45"
Weight: 160g (5.6 ounces)
HxWxT: 127.8 x 68.5 x 11.5 mm

Display and UI
Capacitive
Display size: 4.3”
Screen height x width: 800p x 480p
AMOLED ClearBlack
Corning® Gorilla® Glass

Camera
Main: 8mp, Carl Zeiss, dual LED flash, f2.2/28mm aperture (larger than others)
Front: 1mp, 1280 x 720p, f2.4 lens and 30fps capture
Video: HHD 720p/30fps (Uh!) Hi-Res

Extra Features
Gyroscope
Micro SIM
2 Microphones
Bing Maps, Nokia Maps, Nokia Drive
AT&T Navigator
Xbox Live
FM Radio (Oh!)
Wi-Fi
Micro USB
Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR
USB 2.0 High-Speed
3.5mm AHJ Connector
NFC

Power Pack
Battery: BP-6EW 1830mAh
All Day Life: Upto 7-h talk time, 300-h stand-by time, music 60-h, video 6.5-h

Available Colors
Only two, BLACK and CYAN

Detailed Specs:
http://mynokiablog.com/2012/01/10/no...usa-techspecs/

THE INTRO-VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...v=k3Nfh9bl0Z8#!

With this, Lumia 900, Nokia finally goes worldwide with our amazingly stunning N9's wow factor. All other design criterion remaining the same, this powerhouse, built exclusively for AT&T, promises a bigger, faster, stronger smartphone experience - thanks to its larger screen, faster processor and support for the best mobile data transfers available to date. The Nokia Lumia 900 allows data downloads up to 50Mbps on AT&T’s 4G LTE network. With a plus being a souped-up battery, promising the day!

The Nokia Lumia 900 will be available (especially in the U.S.) in the next couple of months, with March 18th being tipped as the expected launch date. There's no word on pricing yet, but Stephen Elop did say Nokia would be "aggressive" and "it is supposed to be built for Speed and Internet" -- whatever that may be. For sure, in a couple of days we'd know where the accolades & brickbats head to.

Qorax

Watch the screen techology: I bet it is Super Amoled plus, normal RGB.

While the N9 users are stuck into eternity witht their smaller pentile matrix screen.

(trying to focus on real values in life grrrr...)

Edit: here you have it: the news about the most important difference (2nd to soon world wide avialability and support) starts to come in:

http://nokiabuff.com/2012/01/10/good...pentile-amoled

It's all about ppi. Higher ppi is only possible in pentile, so you have to choose if you want to see pixelation, or put up with the inferior color of pentile, or inferior black of LCD. Stripe lcd upper ppi limit seems to be about 210-230 ppi. I would love if you could prove me wrong.

It is all about operating systems. As Rousseau would have said, "Phones were born free, yet everywhere they are in chains."

where could one purchase nokia lumia unbranded and complete factory unlock?

I don't understand why they are re-using old Nokia device numbers like the 800 and 900? Are they trying to add a some masculinity to the Lumia name

Of course it doesn't have pentile, the res. is low enough to allow that
When the N9 1st came out even Samsung didn't have SAMOLED+ (non-pentile SAMOLED) phones w/resolutions higher than the N9.*
Hmm FF cam looks slightly worse than N9's, but at least it'll prolly work out-of-the-box

Distinct hw advantages I can see so far:

*4.3" Display (AMOLED CBD non-pentile, is this 100% confirmed?)
Debatable whether this is a huge advantage considering poor res/PPI, but non-pentile's pretty big.
*LTE
Again debatable whether this is huge, but it's def. one of the two distinct advantages.

Possible:
*Gyroscope
I can't recall if N9 has, pretty sure it does.
*2 Microphones
Ditto....
*Front: 1mp, 1280 x 720p, f2.4 lens and 30fps capture
N9 is 1.3MP, but can't recall if it's specc'd like that in red.
*Battery: BP-6EW 1830mAh
Remains to be seen how this plays out in real-world usage.
*All Day Life: Upto 7-h talk time, 300-h stand-by time, music 60-h, video 6.5-h
Ditto....

Unknown:
*NFC
Is it really as sophisticated as the N9's NFC support, WP doesn't have the right kind of support?
*802.11an
No 802.11an for 900 right?

There's several areas the N9's still better, not overly impressed so far.
Non-pentile screen is a "biggy" if that's true.
We should get that on revised N9's else we're being somewhat screwed.
The panel tech should allow it for the N9's res. now.

*although IIRC there was one or two Motorola's.

If it is so good why did Nokia fear selling it alongside the N9? Afraid that N9 will eat it for lunch?

You're wrong. Only Samsung phones (Wave, Galaxy S, SII, GNex, Note) have the Super-Amoled screens and a few Motorola (RAZR/MAXX/Droid4).

There are four variations of these screens and I rate them (best to worst):
Super-AMOLED Plus (SGSII)
Super-AMOLED (SGS)
RGB-AMOLED (N-900)
AMOLED (Desire)

Also note the SGSII and the Nokia-900 have the same size and pixel count, so if people are praising the SII's screen you shouldn't be worried about the 900's.

(On a personal note, a S-AMOLED+ with qHD resolution on 4.7in would be a good trade-off against a regular S-AMOLED and 720p)

You base that on what exactly?
Where are these "four variations" doco'd in more detail?
I was of the understanding there's a few more iterations than that.

Thank-you.