This is one of the prettiest phones at CES 2012.
It took Nokia a while to get itself geared up for its transition to Windows Phone, but it appears that the Finnish company is ready to make 2012 a banner year. It started off CES with the announcement of the Lumia 900, and we stopped by the booth to see the upcoming flagship device.
Despite the relatively modest specifications of even the newest Windows Phones, the mobile OS has been optimized for the single-core architecture so well that it's easily among the most smooth and pleasant experiences.
Yes, the single-core configuration of the Lumia 900 may not make it any more impressive than other Windows Phones, but its design is only equaled by the Lumia 800 (and by extension, the Nokia N9). See this for more on how Nokia designed and makes the Lumia 800 and N9.
The Lumia 900 does it better than the 800 with LTE support, a front facing camera, an 8MP shooter, and a bigger screen, which is notably not PenTile in pixel configuration.
We find the polycarbonate build of this design family gorgeous, so we can't wait to see more of the Lumia 900.
it's a Nokia phone running windows on the AT&T network...
And?
(assuming you have more important things to do in life than to bash these companies for your own cynical anger release?)
You can buy these phones outright in the Europe and "pay as you go"
Look at Marilyn Monroe. Look at Monica Bellucci. Look at this phone. Which one doesn't fit?
You're effing kidding right?
The time between ditching Symbian (at last) and shipping the WP7 phones was incredibly short, even if the 800 and 900 were strongly related to their existing hardware.
So, stop whining and buy it outright without a contract and you can take it to whatever carrier you want. Thats what I do and over the same period a contract would last I save hundreds (sometimes over $1000) over the subsidized+contract price.
This isn't the first non-objective article we've seen bigging up the phone, as the title suggests.
Unfortunately, the good pay as you go plans in the US from Boost Mobile and MetroPCS tend to use PCS technology and CDMA rather than the global 3G standard, with the exception of T-Mobile...