Nokia is mounting its triumphant return to the US market, or so it hopes. Today, the struggling phone maker unveiled its second Windows Phone bound for the North American market. The Nokia Lumia 900 will launch on AT&T within the next few months. The device, which appears to be an upgraded version of the Lumia 800 (which was itself an upgraded Nokia N9), will be one of the first 4G LTE devices to launch on the carrier.
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop unveiled the phone during the company’s pre-CES press conference today. From a hardware perspective, the Lumia 900 has a larger AMOLED screen than the Lumia 800–4.3 inches compared to the 3.7-inch screen of its European counterpart–and runs on a 1.5 GHz single-core processor. It will also come with Nokia’s exclusive apps like Nokia Drive (free turn-by-turn navigation) and launch in two colors: black and cyan. We don’t yet have any word on any other specs, though we imagine they will fall in line with the specs of most Windows Phones. Nokia did take time to highlight the power of the Carl Zeiss lens on its rear camera and the wide-angle lens on its front-facing camera.
To show their support for Nokia, both Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega came on stage to each say a few kind words about Nokia and the Lumia 900. Both seemed busy, likely because they were running around preparing for their own speeches on this most hectic of days. Nearly every major consumer elctronics maker is announcing new products and services today and tomorrow.
Though this is the only announcement being made today, Elop made a point to say that more announcements would be forthcoming and reiterated how pleased Nokia is to be launching the Lumia 710 (a budget phone) on T-Mobile Jan. 19.
As soon as we have a release date and price point, we’ll let you know.
Hwy Jeff, what do you think about Windows Phone 7? Are there any good apps on it like Pandora or Spotify yet? I really like the Lumia 900 from Nokia, but worried about the OS and it’s apps.
both of those apps are on WP7, but the platform in general does have much fewer apps than iOS or Android. I really like the user interface of WP7, and both the Titan 2 and the Lumina 900 look great.
Lumina Vaporware.. The 18th came and went and No Lumina 900 from Nokia… Just another way to tick off potential customers and loose market.
Several commercial entities are reported to have waited until March 18th and when the phone did not produce itself, (Surprise.. Isn’t this how Nokia blew it sales several years ago with other vaporphones) have re-up’d their two year contracts with different models. Leaking a date to hype up marketing and failing to follow through with that date is the best way to lose loyalty and potential customers. You would have thought Nokia would have learned its lesson by now but obviously it did not…. Now all these geeks *me included) that had to have a new phone and held out with superglue, duct tape, or older models snagged up from ebay as temp devices were left with no other choice but to re-up their contracts with different phones. Way to lose customer loyalty and a potential comeback in to the market Nokia…. Fail. SO Nokia, at the least before you cause yourself more damage and humiliation, push an official press release to announce launch date before you push away more potential customers..
What should have been your reclaim to fame is not in the IT world being looked at as how will Nokia handle this damage control from this new disaster….
The glory is over, and the vaporware phone damage for the phone that did not release on reported dates falters and damage control begins… Nokia, listen, You have completely turned off a large group of potential customers, and the longer you hold private, the real release date (if there is even a Lumina 900 to be sold, who knows at this point) the more customers and potential buyers you will lose…..
Not following through with touted release dates, does not make smartphone users WANT to wait longer. It makes them resentful and makes them want to immediately switch product brands.. Apparently Nokia still hasn’t figured that out…
Not sure what the issue was, but it’s now scheduled for April 8. I’m guessing it was an AT&T thing. Carriers sometimes delay phones. I can confirm that a launch is happening, soon.