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Ditch the black, faceless slab of metal, and pick up something that reflects your personality — something bright; charismatic, and smart. The Nokia Lumia 900 lets you live more and do more, while remaining beautifully different from the pack.
With its 4.3-inch glossy AMOLED display, the Lumia 900 is ripe for watching movies on the big screen, or browsing the web at blistering HSDPA speeds. The front-facing camera connects you to your friends when just hearing their voice isn’t enough, but swivel it around, and the rear 8MP camera (with Carl Zeiss lens and dual LED flash) can snap and upload photos to Facebook and Twitter before your pal has located their phone amongst the black generic slabs in front of you.
The home screen’s Live Tiles show all the important news and updates, or act as fast access to the 100,000 fun apps available in the Windows Phone Marketplace; always updating with nary a tap on the Start screen icons needed, thanks to the intuitive way Windows Phone works. We’re sure you’ll find all your favourite apps on the store shelves, and your Start screen will still be alive with animations and updates that pull in the latest news headlines; eBay bids or train times.
Naturally, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are all built into the Nokia Lumia, so all that’s needed is for you to choose the person to contact, either from your pinned favourites on your Start screen (either individuals or groups), or from the central contacts hub. Your favourites’ latest messages and news will be displayed right on the Start screen, for those lucky few you speak to the most.
With a crafted polycarbonate unibody, the Lumia 900 is available in black, white, or a brilliant cyan blue, and its Gorilla Glass screen will protect it against bumps and scrapes. While your friends will be singing the blues as their phones smash and crack, you’ll be singing along to the Nokia Music app’s free Mix Radio, which lets you pause and skip tracks plus save them for offline listening. And if you find a band you like, Nokia’s Gig Finder will inform you of the latest big nights out headed your way.
If games are more your bag however, the Xbox gaming integration will keep your fingers trigger-happy as you rack up the points. No need to worry about battery life either, as the Lumia 900 has a high-capacity battery that will see you through the day easily.
But if you don’t believe us, clamp your eyes on the Nokia Lumia video below, or buy one here.
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I quite like the anonymous black slab look, makes it easier to pretend it’s the Batphone.
On another note, GIZ US usually don’t allow comments on their adverts. Might be a path worth following if you want to appeal to the advertisers.
Yep, they don’t — but we’ve decided we *will* allow comments. Live by the sword, die by the sword, etc etc etc
A brave move on your part, an even braver move on the advertisers part. Bravo to you both.
Allowing comments ought to generate more ad revenue on the sponsored articles too right?
Which means more food for your future children and also improved commenting system etc etc right? Right?
RIGHT ON ALL COUNTS!
Can you imagine what would happen if RIM put up an ad you could comment on?
That is sooo worth doing
I have seen RIM advertise here, so it might just happen. Time to start sharpening your prose. As I said below – If advertisers are willing to accept the possibility that we might take the piss out of their ads mercilessly then I will have greater respect for them.
Looks like Nokia have you covered there too.
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/05/a-batman-themed-lumia-900-will-turn-things-around-for-windows-phone-wontt-it/
I was gonna get it then the windows phone 8 was announced and android jellybean not to mention frickin iPhone 5. Might as well wait till my contract expires >.<
So answer me this. Is it still worth getting the lumia 800 or 900 now when there's a new OS coming out soon?
depends if your happy with the phone doesnt it, if you enjoy the 900 and are happy with features + what you will get in 7.8 and possibly 7.9 then yes its worth it.
If not, then no, its not worth it and wait till q4 when you can pick between jelly bean devices / iphone 5 / wp8 devices
Nokia have already confirmed there will be devices out q4, but i doubt you will get them for free on contract, guess it depends on how much money you want to spend and how much you like the current feature set.
I’ll probably be happy with all of them, I’m leaning towards the lumia900 but it’s just disappointing that there’s going to be a new OS so soon. Then again 7.8 will look just like 8.0 and I really need to replace my HTC Wildfire or as I like to call it: my Pocketwatch.
Decisions, decisions…
I have a lumia 800, and i’m not bothered its not going to get upgraded to wp8, i’m happier with it than i am with my Note or my old iphone 4 (never tried the 4s), MS have said there will be other features with 7.8 other than the start screen, but we dont know what they are.
I do get annoyed some times that i cant get all the games / apps that my mates can on android / iphone, but its catching up pretty quick, the one i am missing most at the minute is draw something, but that should be out within next month or so i think.
Depends really.
I bought my Lumia 800 based on the fact that I was bored with Apple and their “if it sells like hotcakes, keep flogging the same old OS design!” and that the Metro UI is simply a nice interface that does the job perfectly. I didn’t buy it to play games and ‘ping’ my friends.
The fact that WP7.8 will give it the newer UI is great on Microsoft’s part, and I’m not sure there is anything in WP8 that I’ll be desperately yearning for.
If you like a nice slick UI and aren’t desperate for W8/WP8 integration then go ahead. You can pick up a sim-free Lumia 800 for around £190.
I got my Batman edition Lumia 900 the day before the WinPhone8 announcement! And after a days worth of discussion with other Gizmodo readers decided to keep it.
I love it. There are some flaws with the OS and then there are some features that make me think Google and Apple have seriously missed something.
But in the end it came down to me wanting a simple phone, as i only text&call, listen to music, youtube and a bit of light browsing.
I only got a year contract to test out winphone and once this is up hopefully windows phone will have progressed to a decent level. Otherwise its back over to android
“pick up something that reflects your personality — something bright; charismatic, and smart.” – you don’t know me at all do you?
I have to say I disagree with BritishAcademic. If advertisers are willing to accept the possibility that we might take the piss out of their ads mercilessly then I will have greater respect for them. Not that I am ever likely to buy a windows phone of course.
What about a Nexia Wandroid Phone?
(I can’t say too much now but look out for the devices that Googlosoft make once they unite in the face of the Litigious Tyranny instigated by KodaApple MultiPatent Corporation.)
Buy a coloured case.
Yes after all Your Phone Needn’t Be an Anonymous Blue Slab either.
Or an anonymous OS in the mobile OS ecosystem
Lumia phone were very tempting, until it turned out none of the current models will support WP8. Sure there’s WP7.8 but from what I’ve read, WP7.8 is still WinCE based and WP8 is WinNT based, meaning it’ll take a bit of effort making WP8 apps compatible with WP7.8 phones.
I’ll pass, for now
Only for now? Are you hoping that this phone will stop being an unsupported dead end in an undersupported OS’s product line sometime in the future?
or perhaps he is waiting for wp8 devices?
FYI, could you link the unsupported dead end quotes from nokia / ms please? As far as i am aware wp 7.8 is released, and MS said that it is potentially not the final update.
I know you love Google, but no need to lie and try to force your google love onto other people.
Perhaps you should re read the comment I was replying to and consider my comment in the light of this. This Phone will not be getting Windows 8 and Windows 8 Apps will not work on it. Microsoft will be too busy pushing their “apps that can work on phones/tablets and computers” line that “apps that can run on the abandoned version of our OS” will not be high priority. Yes Nokia and Microsoft have said there may be updates after the consolation update 7.8 but as many people on Android know a vague promise of an update is worth fuck all.
you quite clearly stated that the phone and OS are dead end and unsupported, something that is quite untrue.
Fair enough, though I consider that exaggeration rather than outright untruth, but I accept that others may see it differently.
At least with Android devices, users can hack the latest version of Android onto it, with the use of Cyanogenmod, you can’t even say that for Windows Phone =/
My point was that WP8 apps won’t be automatically compatible with WP7.8. When the new WP8 phones are rolling out, which OS are devs going to write software for first? WP8.
All I’m saying is I wouldn’t now want to invest in a current Lumia when I know in the not so distant future, the OS it will run will be at best developers’ second priority.
Not to be too much of a git, but that’s an N9 in the main image. I like N9′s.
Nokia, if you can hear (er… read…) me, give me a valid and non-painful way to escape the Apple ecosystem and I will gladly buy one of your handsets!
I miss your phones and loved my 3200, just Apple has me hostage with a shit tonn of apps and the fact that it synchs perfectly with my MacBook right now
(…I make the fact that my devices work really well together sound like a bad things xD)
That’s NOT a Lumia up top – it’s an N9! I can’t have been the only one that noticed!
Ah. I wasn’t the only one that noticed… :-/