Nokia Lumia 900: WP7 Mango LTE smartphone for AT&T

After the Lumia 800 and 710, Nokia has unveiled a new Windows Phone Mango smartphone in the United States for the carrier AT&T: the Lumia 900, a top of the line model that is LTE compatible.

Clues as to its existence have started to regularly appear over the last few weeks, with the CES 2012 show in Las Vegas finally being the moment used by Nokia to unveil their top of the line Windows Phone Mango smartphone which has the aim of conquering the US market.

The manufacturer, the worlds largest in the mobile phone field, has never managed to succeed with Symbian in the United States, with their market share falling below 4%. The move to Windows Phone is a good occasion to renew their implemented mobile OS, leaning on the power of Microsoft.

Windows Phone has until now been marginalised in the mobile market, with its development at a critical point after more than a year since its international release. Nokia and Microsoft have therefore decided to create synergies between their activities, allowing them to attack the market.

The Nokia Lumia 900 is presented as a top of the line Windows Phone 7 smartphone with the particularity of being the first in its category to be 4G LTE compatible (Long Term Evolution) which has been promised in Windows Phone smartphones.


Characteristics
Using the same style seen with the Nokia Lumia 800, we find a coloured single piece polycarbonate shell with a 4.3" diagonal screen (compared to 3.7" for the Lumia 800) with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels on an AMOLED backing which uses Nokia’s ClearBlack Display technology.

It is 127.8 x 68.5 x 11.5 mm in size and weighs 160 g, while on board we find an APQ8055 SnapDragon 1.4 GHz processor, a MSM9200 modem which provides quad-band GSM/EDGE compatibility and tri-band HSPA 21 Mbps with LTE – all made by Qualcomm.

The smartphone comes with an 8 mega pixel Carl Zeiss camera lens on the back with an f/2.2 grand angle (28 mm) that is capable of recording 720p video at 30 fps. We can also note the presence of a secondary camera on the front for videoconferencing.

The Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity options are present, along with an A-GPS module. The Windows Phone Mango OS is on-board offering, with its hubs and interactive tiles system, integration with services like Zune and Xbox Live, along with the Windows Phone Marketplace portal.

Carrier AT&T will be the exclusive carrier in the United States to carry the model, with the device to benefit from their LTE network which is currently being deployed.