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After we caught sight of the Lumia 900 in a Nokia developer video, the rumours of a true Nokia Windows Phone 7 flagship have been circling. The latest on the grapevine suggests a 4.3-inch device with Lumia 800 DNA.
Boy Genius has it that the Lumia 900 will pack a 1.4GHz processor, probably single-core, a 4.3-inch ClearBlack AMOLED screen and an 8-megapixel camera — effectively a Lumia 800 with a bigger screen. The device will ship sometime in ‘early 2012′ in the US, which might mean we’ll get it slightly sooner, remembering that ‘early’ 2012 encompasses at least three months up to March. It’ll apparently come packing Windows Phone Tango, which is pretty much a given at this stage.
Regardless of the so-so specs, let’s hope the Lumia 900 really comes and blows our socks off like a true flagship device should. We liked the Lumia 800, but it’ll start to look fairly out-dated pretty quickly if the pace of Android development keeps up. [Boy Genius Report]
I’m looking forward to this phone coming out. I’ve stuck with my HD2 for 2 years waiting to see what Nokia’s flagship phone would bring.
I’ve been having a look at the specs again. I’d prefer a decent physical qwerty keyboard but a bigger screen is better, I struggle with the keyboard on my ipod touch, the bigger screen on my phone is a lot easier to type with. Much bigger than 4.3″ can be too big (I’m looking at you Dell Streak).
The single-core 1.4GHz processor should be plenty, WP7 is optimised to run on single-core phones and I do believe putting dual-core processors in phones can kill battery life. I’ve played with a WP7 port on my phone which has a 1GHz processor and that ran fine.
While I’d like a Front Facing Camera, it’s not the end of the world for me, I’ve only used video calling a couple of times previously and they were just to see how it worked.
“I do believe putting dual-core processors in phones can kill battery life” – WRONG. Please read http://www.nvidia.com/content/PDF/tegra_white_papers/Benefits-of-Multi-core-CPUs-in-Mobile-Devices_Ver1.2.pdf
You really don’t have to be a dick about it. So I was wrong on the internet, big whoop.
I’d read articles like this that talk about battery issues on dual-core phones.
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Almost-all-dual-core-Android-phones-suffering-from-power-consumption-issue_id19060
and in the Engadget review for the Sensation XE they say “The extra speed isn’t worth the battery drain”
http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/13/htc-sensation-xe-with-beats-audio-review/
I’ve also been stuck with my HD2 for 2 years, it’s a great phone but I’m starting to get a little sick of Windows 6.5, is it difficult to port WP7 onto it?
Have you used Cookie’s Home Tab? It changes the home screen so that you’re able to personalise it a lot more to add more shortcuts and widgets.
Installing WP7 isn’t hard, you just have to make sure you have the right software and ROMs on your computer before you start, it can be a bit of a pain realising you’ve forgotten to download something while your phone is being set up. It’s not a perfect port, multitouch isn’t 100%, it works in the browser but not in games. Also, I think there are issues with the camera and video not being able to record at 720p.
This is the one I used:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1236027
Cheers mate, definitely gonna give it a go!