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Nokia Lumia 900 Reviews
MrSeb, zachareye, and others wrote in with several reviews of the Nokia Lumia 900. Starting things off, Extreme Tech asks if the Lumia redefines the smartphone; BGR chimes in declaring the phone "terrific". Ars Technica, on the other hand, isn't quite so enthusiastic, especially about the camera optics. Anandtech joins Ars in not being particularly enthused. It looks like most reviewers are happy with the UI, but not so enthused about the hardware (low display resolution for one). Signs point to an OK handset, but nothing spectacular.
So they come up with a device that doesn't meet the hype they're pushing it with which will drive down Nokia's share price making them easier for Microsoft to one day acquire. It's gonna happen, they'll sell off all the parts except the patent portfolio and the Brand.
I think you were in cryogenic stasis since ~2007, which is ironically the last time Nokia made a phone worth owning. Everything since has been a slow and steady erosion of what was once an invaluable brand and that is now worthless beyond it's name.
If you like the shape of the phone, just get an N9 :)
And yes, it runs Linux!
Goodbye iphone and android!
What? You dual wield two phones at once? Go-go phone ninja!
Curious: do you plan to dual wield 2 Win-Phones now?
Windows 7 != Window Phone 7. Get informed before opening your mouth.
Gawd, the astroturfers have become so obviously these times...
Every OEM is using it expect Nokia and Apple
I think you were in cryogenic stasis since ~2007, which is ironically the last time Nokia made a phone worth owning.
I am the proud owner of a Nokia N900 (which is very much worth owning) since end of 2010, which is well after 2007.
Invaluable means valuable?! What a country!
Sand's overrated... it's just tiny little rocks.
You mean trolls. Not astroturfers. It's a blatantly obvious troll. And unsurprisingly right now it has more replies than any other post in this thread.
We need more competition in the mobile phone market. BlackBerry is pretty much dead, WebOS is dead, Symbian is dead. It would be really nice to see Microsoft grab a significant portion of the market away from Android, which will push Google into making their OS better.
hey!
Yep, the N900 is still the best phone out of Nokia, I am afraid that it may one day break and I will be forced to look for an alternative.
From experience: "good"/"great" even "better than the competition" is not enough.
It must be better by a huge margin (or have a "killer app") for the phone to be adopted at this late of a stage. Android had the edge of being "free", so it was "easy" to ship with. I am curious how successful the platform will be (and will be watching from the sidelines), but at this point I do not think it will change the mobile market.
I think you were in cryogenic stasis since ~2007, which is ironically the last time Nokia made a phone worth owning. Everything since has been a slow and steady erosion of what was once an invaluable brand and that is now worthless beyond it's name.
I'm the proud owner of a Nokia C1. So are a lot of people I know. We're not all into smartphones you know.
That's sort of the point of the reviews. For the price (and that does count a lot) the Lumia 900 is a decent phone. It struggles to compete with dual core phones which are much more expensive, which is a problem for the windows brand, since the Galaxy Nexus and iPhone 4s are powerful flagship devices, but as a Nokia Phone that isn't going to just be sold to rich people who can afford 500+ dollar phones it's pretty good overall (where I am the Galaxy Nexus and iPhone 4s run 575 and 650 dollars respectively, where the Lumia 900 is about 450).
Now, overall, given the circumstances I don't think that makes it a great launch. Nokia, or one of the WP7.5 launch partners should have a quad core phone out the door nowish (but then I figured the playstation vita should be a phone as well), and the lumia 900 could be a mid range device. There's a big gap in the user experience between iphone and android in terms of software updates, and it's an area on the PC that MS does surprisingly well at in terms of how updates are delivered and what works/doesn't on them. But MS doesn't seem to have delivered very well, and that's not good for anyone, least of all nokia employees and shareholders.
Curious: do you plan to dual wield 2 Win-Phones now?
That's obviously a win-win situation.
The brand new Lumia 900 comes out somewhat comparable to the two year old iPhone 4.
Pass.
First.
The iPhone revolutionised the mobile phone market, essentially turning smartphones that had limited use and poor experience into things that are quick and reliable. Now we're tweaking and improving, it's hard for anyone to carve a niche. WP7's niche is that it totally integrates your contacts. If you know the same person in twitter, linkedin, your email db, facebook and more, WP7 seamlessly integrates them into the one person they are. That's it's killer app. The problem is that it takes more than a one-day test to really see this benefit so reviews are never going to "get it".
Second.
MS are keen not to make the mistake Android is making (or that they made in the PCmarket). They want to standardise the platform. This is easy for Apple/iPhone, they're the only ones making one. Not so easy keeping HTC, Samsung, Nokia and others to stick to one design. There's nothing for them to distinguish themselves in the market.
Roll on Windows 8 and tablets - then iPhone will be under serious threat. For most consumers, the tablet - if properly conceived and integrated - is a far better computer experience than the PC/Laptop.
(disclosure: I'm a devoted Lumia 800 and previously Samsung Omnia 7 owner)
A quick glance on Amazon shows new android phones at less than $300 without a contract. T-Mobile has lots of Android phones available at $0 + plus a contract. Those current feature phone owners will find that more attractive than $450 for the Lumia 900, or about the same as $0 to $99 with a contract. It's not a new class.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
Source please.
So, are any of these reviews going to give us any idea, at all, of call or sound quality on these phones? Or have we just completely given up on the "phone" part of the functionality?
Not even ONE DAY of autonomy ... When will we able to buy PHONES ?
Nokia's Linux N9 has a front facing camera and an option for 64 (not 16) gigabytes. Plus the swipe keyboard is the bomb. Check out the video, 2nd thumbnail from the left, on the bottom of this page:
http://swipe.nokia.com/
It is a breeze for me to SSH to it, when I need a real keyboard, like to enter serious passwords, (hopefully rarely).
Those are the main advantages the Linux N9 has over the Lumia 900, its WP7 polycarbonite twin.
I still don't trust Microsoft in the mobile world. They've shown too many times that they're willing to shut down projects (Kin anybody?). Like Apple in the datacenter, I question how much effort they're willing to expend to stay in an already saturated market.
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
'Invaluable means valuable?! What a country!'
invaluable/invalyoobl/
Adjective:
Extremely useful; indispensable: "an invaluable source of information".
That's because it is. I wuv my N900!
Billions? They've been at this a while. Kin was dead out the door, they knew it, you knew it, I knew it. Everyone knew it. But contracts must be honoured.
That doesn't mean they'll ever make any money however, it could be billions invested for nothing. The windows 8 strategy of unifying all the device OS's is actually a good idea. A decent phone these days is basically a half speed laptop (with a dual core 1.x GHz processor and a gig or so of ram that's like half a laptop), which means you really can run the same OS on everything. If you try out the windows 8 preview it seems more like it's for phones than desktops, so this might be shooting themselves in the foot with a rocket launcher overall, but we'll see. They certainly seem to be all in on this plan.
It runs Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango). A step up from 7.
If I used a sig over again, would anyone notice?
Quick summary:
It looks okay. Wifi and 3g battery life is poor, but 4g is good. Java script performance is unimpressive. Camera is good, but white balance is poor and a faster CPU would help post processing. There wasn't nothing to complain about on the display. No 5Ghz wifi, but bandwidth and such is good. Speaker quality is good. And that's about it.
Their biggest complaint seems to be that the phone lacks a dual core CPU. They are apparently coming and will let the phone record video at 1024p, over 720p, and perhaps take better photos.
Other than that, it's a normal Windows 7.5 phone.
I hope you die an utterly painful death for that HORRENDOUS pun. I had a little vomit in my mouth after reading that one.
First off, I like Windows Phone 7.5. I have an HTC Titan, and it works quite well. I would definitely say it's almost competitive in most aspects, and does exceed in a few important areas. That said, Microsoft's really not doing Nokia many favors. Lumia 900 really needed an updated WP OS. This was a perfect opportunity for Microsoft to release, say, WP7.6, with support for a higher resolution screen, and maybe some much needed UI tweaks and facelifts. Instead, consumers may well walk into AT&T and realize that phones like the Focus Flash run exactly the same OS and are free. Fine for MS, but not so good for Nokia.
Microsoft really needs to have Apollo ready, like, yesterday. There is already a good amount of mystique about it, but that mystique will dissipate quickly once iOS 6 and Android 5.0 hits the market.
Yes, it's a pity that Microsoft killed the Pocket PC in the Windows Mobile 6 era. So if you want more battery life for the phone, you'll probably have to do without Windows Phone. Buy and carry both a cheap flip phone and an Android-powered PDA such as a Samsung Galaxy Player. The PDA gets service wherever there's Wi-Fi, and in this car culture, if you don't have Wi-Fi, you're probably already busy driving a vehicle.
Oh, for fuck's sake, Theophany. Look, you've been here before, you KNOW the consequences of making a statement like that. Now look what you've done. You've summoned another member of the N900 Denial Squad into this thread. See? NOW do you see why we don't make statements like that? Now he'll NEVER leave! That's ANOTHER moron we'll have infesting any other Slashdot story that has to do with any sort of cell phone!
Most phones in UKia are sold on contract and if people are told they can have this or an iPhone4s if they agree a few more months on their contract I know which way they're gonna go.
The main reason to buy a Nokia seems to be if you want a camera which just happens to have a phone on it, such as an N-900 or even their forthcoming Nokia-808 PureView when it comes out
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I had the N900, used it for several months, I don't consider it worth owning at all - and I can't understand why people are so enthusiastic about it.
Terrible interface, terrible screen, terrible keyboard, hardware wasnt at all resilient (the wifes one died physically after 6 months of usage).
The phone looks nice, but I have always felt that Microsoft has made a calculated mistake in trying to be "Me too" Apple. They will never have the blind, "This device is hot!" following that apple has. M$ should get back to there roots, business. WP is a good piece of software, and has the opportunity to make itself secure and business friendly, but by crippling the platform with single core processors and no removable memory it will never interest power users. But if they go business centric they may have a chance to catch Apple where they are weak, and with RIM imploding they actually have a chance.
That's all I want to know.
Inconceivable! My n900 has bounced off of numerous surfaces for the past 3 years including linoleum, concrete, steel and in once instance actually damaged the asphalt at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. No Otterbox either, because that's how I roll. It has some little scratches and a worn spot on the screen from it's gorilla-glassness rubbing up against my keys but other than that it works fine.
I'm willing to bet that she had to find another n900 to damage her own n900 with. Nothing can truly damage or destroy a Nokia except another Nokia.
Maybe your wife just broke her n900 because she'd rather have an iPhone. There is no other reasonable conclusion.
Are there any good phones with a real physical 5-row QWERTY slider keyboard anymore?
I bought three N900 phones until now (one for wife, one for a friend), two of them were second hand, none of them broke. And they've been constantly abused by my two toddlers, fell down from tables and into puddles god knows how many times. Recently I tried to smash mine against a wall (was having a rage episode), threw it directly at the wall two times with all my might. It's still working, apart from the camera function, and I'm still using it. I also constantly overclock it from 600 to 1150 MHz.
I'm not such a gadget enthusiast, but I've read some criticism against N900, which focused on screen/keyboard, but never heard about resiliency. My wife also recently bought an Asus Transformer Prime. Screen? I can read from N900 in broad daylight but it's impossible with the transformer. Keyboard? Mechanical keyboards are still better than on-screen ones as a matter of fact.
What else? I love being able to run the same programs on my desktop PC and my mobile tablet. I love being able to carry one in my back pocket. If you have a better solution for this than the N900, I'd probably be inclined to buy one.
They certainly seem to be all in on this plan
Indeed they do. Too soon to know whether it works or not. But it's all upside for Microsoft. They don't need for people to like it on the desktop. As we've seen with Vista - people get (and pay for) it whether they like it or not. And if they put up a big enough stink, they can pay extra not to get it. In the meantime, Microsoft gets a fully funded project to develop a tablet OS that might possibly be able to leverage MSOffice compatibility into a winning formula. Nice what a monopoly or two can do...
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Buy a spare N900 while you still can! That's what I'm about to do!
I'm still a cell phone Luddite. I don't like most "smart" functions because of the drain battery power while giving me a ton of stuff I don't want.
Things I don't want:
"Seamless integration of phone and social networking contacts" -- I have different spheres of life for a reason. I don't want any corporation being able to draw a perfect picture of my habits, hobbies, peers, or family.
"Blazing fast web access" -- I don't want to shell out more than I'm paying right now ($50/month) for a cell phone. That means I don't want a "data plan". The lack of web access decreases time/money/effort spent on phone development and prevents unexpected accidental charges.
"Touch screen keyboard" -- Buttons work better. They just do.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm as super nerd as anyone else, but I also have a very real preference to not be "leashed" by technology. I refuse to become "tech dependent" which most people admit to becoming after getting a smart phone. ("I never thought I would need it, but now I can't live without it.")
I just want the following functions to work *flawlessly* on a feature phone:
*Great speakerphone, sound, and mic
*Hardware QWERTY for text messaging
*Customizable UI color schemes
*MicroSD card Slot
*Good quality snapshot camera (no flash necessary)
*Great MP3/OGG/etc. player and interface
*3.5mm headphone jack
*All other weight saved should go to increased battery size/life and reduced weight
http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/3/2921472/lumia-900-review
It seems reviewers are anxious for a third ecosystem to emerge so the keep making light of the shortcomings. This is ~2010 era HW power, with an OS that was aimed at the original iOS and hasn't caught up to the competition. People need to stop making excuses for the Weak HW, and weak SW. Microsoft/Nokia, need to seriously revamp the OS and release a real flagship if they want to be anything but irrelevant.
Verge Excerpt(on the software itself):
Let me just put this bluntly: I think it's time to stop giving Windows Phone a pass. I think it's time to stop talking about how beautifully designed it is, and what a departure it's been for Microsoft, and how hard the company is working to add features. I am very aware of the hard work and dedication Microsoft has put into this platform, but at the end of the day, Windows Phone is just not as competitive with iOS and Android as it should be right now.
The problems with Windows Phone are myriad, many small. But it's a death by a thousand cuts. And all those little problems were once again immediately apparent to me the moment I started using the Lumia 900.
The most glaring issues also happen to be some of the oldest issues — things you think at this point would have been dealt with. Scrolling in third party apps, for instance, is still completely erratic. I would blame this on developers, but given that this platform has been around for nearly two years, I think that's a cop out. In new Twitter apps like Carbon, lists of messages will sometimes disappear or skip weirdly when scrolling. I first complained about this in version 1 of Windows Phone, and I thought it had been squashed — it has not.
Elsewhere there are missteps. Though Microsoft has added some form of multitasking to the OS, there is nearly never a feeling that apps in the "background" are actually still waiting for you. In fact, many apps still deliver a splash screen to you when you reenter them — if this is a developer issue, then I guess most of the hardworking coders on this platform never got the memo. In short, it kind of sucks to use. Where iOS and Android at least feel responsive in packing and unpacking background apps, Windows Phone often comes across as broken and limp. ....
Trouble with the hype was that it gave me the impression that the Lumina 900 was a high-end device. So telling me it was, and then on launch saying it is a good medium-end (oxymoron!) device seems a little odd. Perhaps I had a misunderstanding.
...the amount of astroturf about this today makes me feel like the internet just turned into Edward Jones Dome.
In other news: (plugs NL900 into Windows computer, presses 'synch', BSOD on both devices). Dammit... Got me again...
~Just as a thing fails if it lacks a kernel, so too it fails if it lacks a skin. ~ Rumi, Discourses
Interesting how Apple cannot shake its image as a pricy, too-expensive-for-the-hardware manufacturer, even when that's not always true.
In the US, you can get an ATT iPhone 4, which everyone agrees basically is not that much worse than their flagship 4S, for $99. For that price you get 960x640 resolution at high pixel density and a motherlode of apps, plus a device that when jailbroken is an absolute joy to use. This is for the same exact price as the N900, yet N900 comes off as a cheapo phone that's a bargain and the iPhone gets off as some kind of luxury item.
Same for the 8-core Mac Pro. My supposedly economical cluster blade vendor is sending me quotes for 8-core Nehalem blades that are the same price as the 8-core Mac Pro... WTF? Oh yeah, an 8+ core Mac Pro is actually very competitively priced compared to anything other than build your own.
So yeah, apple will rob you blind if you're trying to buy a charger, but just remember, there are some prices that aren't ripoffs, OK?
For the price (and that does count a lot) the Lumia 900 is a decent phone. It struggles to compete with dual core phones
It only "struggles" in the imagination of people who believe that more cores = better, before they have actually tried to do anything with the thing.
Nokia, or one of the WP7.5 launch partners should have a quad core phone out the door nowish
Why the hell? Lumia 900 is fast enough for anyone whose perception is not affected by reading spec sheets.
My exception safety is -fno-exceptions.
It is a marvellous product, considering WIndows Phone was dead, Nokia was dead and just about everything except Apple is dying,
It is the beginning of new products which can go head to head with Apple. Android is playing a loosing game. People have no idea what they are choosing when buying an Android phone. No common brand, nothing special. You pick it up like that 0.99 watch at the cash register at WalMart.
Lumia has changed that. It is a good phone with more hype and can stand it own ground. The very first real Apple competitor. I have worked and used Apple products since 1984, my primary contact nets consist of 2 Apple 4S, 2 iPads and running Apple networks at home. Apple all the way.
Android can't compete with that. It's a WalMart anonymous brand. It may sell more phones but it will not have the status like Apple. Or... The Lumia. Which is the first very real competition for Apple. Forget the Nexus, One or whatever. They were technical experiments with a very narrow target audience. Lumia on the other hand is something like Apple. Nurture this brand and Apple do have a real competitor.
The problem is what you said doesn't ring true with most N900 users. So, maybe your wife's N900 genuinely did break without being abused, however it is very solidly built, aside from the micro-usb port issue, and you could at least have said how it broke. The screen, for a phone released late 2009, is very good with a transreflective display that can be used in direct sunlight, of course there are much better displays on many high-end phones today. The keyboard, that is a matter of personal preference, but for something that has to fit in that form-factor, well I like using it, but yes, the paint can wear off the keys, it has on my first N900. And the interface, again a matter of preference, but I think it is better than any other interface I have tried (but I haven't tried Android 3.0+ or WebOS the N9s Meego or Windows Phone, which to be fair is quite a few, but excepting WebOS they weren't around when the N900 was new), although it could have done with more polish.
Saying the other phones are "200 hundred dollars more" is like someone who says they bought a house for $200k, when after loan interest over 25 years they wound up paying $600k for their house. The required two year plan sticking you with AT&T has to be taken into account in addition to the other factors (single core, older technology, OS without many apps etc.)
The only thing they will unify is the name.
But it will still be two different OS. Windows 8 PC will still need, just like Windows 7, a 10-15GB hard drive partition only for the OS as well as 1 or 2GB RAM. Windows 8 phone will only run on ARM processors, and will be much thinner. It won't run desktop applications (compiled for x86).
Some application will look similar, but that's it. Don't expect Office to be the same for phone and PCs either.
I can post photos later on of the second N900 she used, with most of the keyboards plastic covering rubbed off through normal usage.
Dude, buy your poor lady a dildo!
She does use it a lot tho.
Maybe you should spare some time for her in bed...
I can't see what others see in it.
They see a phone which is at the same time a pocket Linux computer. For other purposes, there are sausages, cucumbers and bananas.
> should have a quad core phone ...
Windows Phone 7.x OS is incapable of running on anything other than a single core, it simply does not have the code required to make that happen. Same with resolution, it only works with 800x320 or 320x240. Higher res is not possible.
It has been indicated that Windows 8 based WOA, and thus allegedly WP8, will _require_ dual core. This will make any WP7.x phone, including the 900, obsolete by the end of the year, or early next year (or the year after).
The preference between a physical and onscreen keyboard is just that, a preference, most certainly not "matter of fact" one way or the other. I don't prefer one over the other.
Yeah, nothing can be "better" "as a matter of fact" without an agreed upon metric. I was thinking about the talk about how the new types of touchscreens make it easier to type, etc. Let's say there are potential advantages and disadvantages of a separate mechanical keyboard and leave it at that.
But people didn't buy vista. MS biggest competitor is themselves. Windows 8 will have to compete with windows 7, and I have a feeling a lot of people will be waiting to upgrade to windows 9, and by then they may move to a mac and an iphone. If only we could know the future...
And ya, windows phones *should* provide a great user experience. OS updates when they're actually released, compatibility with windows apps, full document/calendar/e-mail syncing, all automatically, that sort of thing. Whether they deliver on that I don't know, but I don't think they have the 'vision' yet.
Not quite true. There is a windows 8 for ARM that will be tablets and phones, and Windows x86 (or actually IA64 but whatever), that will be for Intel/AMD chips. Those could be phone, tablet, or desktop.
They're also streamlining the application development so you hopefully don't have to completely rewrite your application for ARM, it's just setting multiple build targets and off you go.
How similar that makes office is hard to say. If it really is just setting a new build target everything will just kind of be there, even if it performs differently (which, given how little office does with fancy CPU extensions might not be an issue).
The space thing presents a real artificially generated problem. It's not hard to get 120GB SSD's these days, or even 60-90GB ones, which, if you put that in a phone sort of negates the problems of space. They could also pull out the old DLL store that has all the old versions of various things, that would certainly shrink things down but who knows. I'd think any sort of Windows 8 device will need 64 gigs of storage, which isn't that bad, but it's hard to say how that would sell in the marketplace.
I don't get the "should have a quad core phone" thing. Sure more power is great, but honestly the WP7.5 phones don't suffer the same sluggishness that necessitates the quad core phones for android and to a less extent the iphone. Especially when more powerful seems to come hand in hand with less battery life. Personally I would sacrifise a lot of the power in my smart phone for it to work well but with far better battery life.
But people didn't buy Vista
That's my point. Vista was a big success, and everybody hated it. It still 'sold' with most new PC's. Nobody actually buys Windows upgrades any more - XP is 'good enough' for most Windows users, and newer OS's have needed beefier machines. So Microsoft's business model is no longer dependent on selling OS upgrades. They make all the Windows revenue they need from the OEM pre-load monopoly. Except for those pesky netbooks, for which they couldn't charge enough while still keeping Linux out of the market. So netbooks are 'no longer popular'. I wonder why...
All that said, Windows 8 might be a nice tablet system. But Win8 ARM tablets are just gonna be iPads + Office. If they're cheap enough, they may sell. Office may be the tie-breaker for some. The real killer tablet feature, though, will be true multi-user support. Apple and Google better get on the ball with that one, or Win8 really will take over.
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wow, poor butthurt n900 fanboy.
I hope you die an utterly painful death for that HORRENDOUS pun. I had a little vomit in my mouth after reading that one.
You're welcome :)
Really? The N900 has a squishy resistive touchscreen that is very easily scratched.
64GB isn't a problem on PCs. But phones still ship with only 16GB. And people expect most of that space to be available for music, movies, etc. Not all reserved by the OS.
As I said, Windows 8 ARM will be a completely different product that Windows 8 x86.
That's sort of the point of the reviews. For the price (and that does count a lot) the Lumia 900 is a decent phone. It struggles to compete with dual core phones which are much more expensive, which is a problem for the windows brand, since the Galaxy Nexus and iPhone 4s are powerful flagship devices, but as a Nokia Phone that isn't going to just be sold to rich people who can afford 500+ dollar phones it's pretty good overall (where I am the Galaxy Nexus and iPhone 4s run 575 and 650 dollars respectively, where the Lumia 900 is about 450).
Now, overall, given the circumstances I don't think that makes it a great launch. Nokia, or one of the WP7.5 launch partners should have a quad core phone out the door nowish (but then I figured the playstation vita should be a phone as well), and the lumia 900 could be a mid range device. There's a big gap in the user experience between iphone and android in terms of software updates, and it's an area on the PC that MS does surprisingly well at in terms of how updates are delivered and what works/doesn't on them. But MS doesn't seem to have delivered very well, and that's not good for anyone, least of all nokia employees and shareholders.
My view is that for every $600.00 phone, there are 50 phones of $200 or less being sold. I know around my city, the most popular is the Samsung at between $60 - $80. Not everyone wants a phone to do much more than to have long long battery life, be reliable, last 2-3 years before replacing it or the battery.
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A friend of mine got a test ride : http://berlinique.jimdo.com/2012/04/06/lumia-900-a-walk-on-the-wild-side/ It does take good photos.
You know because you make LARP costumes in your mother's basement and you use Tandy tools to do it? Hey, I'm not judging....;)
I am a long time iphone user, and I really love my new Nokia Lumia 900 phone. It was easy to use the nokia contact transfer app using blue tooth in a matter of minutes. Also, the speed of 4G LTE is just great. Make note of the noika drive app which is a nice free gps app. I have only had the phone 3 days and I already don't miss the iphone at all. Don't worry about apple they have plenty of sheep, as it is a fad device and will continue to be popular. It is good to have competition, it will push both sides and us the consumer will benefit.