While Nokia is busy promoting its flagship handset the Lumia 800 in the rest of the world, it has just announced perhaps its most essential release in the US since the past few years. We are talking about the newly announced Lumia 900 which officially replaces the Lumia 800 as the flagship Windows Phone powered handset from the Finnish major.
The Lumia 900 is exclusive to AT&T as of now and is visually similar to the Lumia 800 – except for being much bigger in size. The larger size also endows it with a much bigger display. At 4.3 inches, this is by far the biggest display I have come across on a Nokia handset. Do correct me if I am wrong!
The display resolution, however, remains at 800*400 which falls slightly short of the spectacular resolutions we see nowadays on high end Android devices. That said, this is certainly not unusably pixelated or something. The Lumia 900 would also be Nokia’s first ever 4G LTE device.
The Lumia 900 is powered by a 1.4 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8055 processor coupled with an MDM9200 chipset. The processor has already been used on the HTC Flyer and is a tried and tested performer. The 900 also gets a beefier battery which is now rated at 1840 mAH enabling the phone to offer up to 300 hours of standby time and 7 hours of talk time.
On the imaging front too, things have improved with the Lumia 900 getting an improved 8 megapixel camera. This one gets a large f2.2/28mm aperture which aids in low light photography and is ably supported with dual LED flashes at the rear. The same camera doubles up as your HD camcorder albeit it is only capable of capturing videos at 720p at 30 fps. The phone comes with 16 GB of on board memory and weighs in at 160 grams.
Another notable addition is a 1 Megapixel (we haven’t heard of that since quite long, no?) front facing camera which would help you with your video calling attempts.
The Lumia 900 as of now seems only headed States side that too on AT&T. But we have reasons to believe that this would be coming soon to other parts of the globe as well in the not too distant future.
