Nokia has been betting big on Lumia 900 ever since the company announced its plans to adopt Windows Phone as the primary platform for its smartphones. Lumia 900 eventually hit the U.S. market through AT&T, on a $100 contract. However, as a part of recent development, the price of Lumia 900 has been reduced by half. Lumia 900 now will be available on AT&T's website for $49.99 in blue, black, white, and latest pink with a two-year contract.
When launched, the Lumia 900 became the top seller at Amazon Wireless and Shakers list with the cyan variant boasting 394 percent growth in first few days. It then outperformed the sales of iOS and Android devices in other retail stores.
But according to a recent report from Nielsen, the U.S. market is still under control of Android devices as about 51.8 percent of American smartphone owners currently own an Android device whereas Apple iPhone comes to the second spot with 34.3 percent and RIM comes third with 8.1 percent of BlackBerry users. Windows phones, on the other hand, are lagging much behind in terms of market share.
The Nielsen report also revealed that the old Windows Mobile platform is still doing better business with three percent market share than the new Windows 7's 1.3 percent.
Nielsen, in its present study, also found that despite Microsoft's close allies with Nokia, most of the Windows Phone users are opting for Samsung or HTC devices. But, the analyst firm in a separate study has also mentioned that 96 percent of Lumia 900 owners are either extremely or somewhat satisfied with their smartphone and 95 percent would recommend the phone to others. Moreover, 83 percent of the users said that Lumia 900 has exceeded their expectations while 85 percent say they would repurchase the Lumia 900.
Talking about the specs, the Nokia Lumia 900 is the first ever 4G-LTE Windows Phone which came pre-installed with the new Windows Phone 7.5 Mango OS, sporting a 4.3-inch Clear Black AMOLED display with 480 X 800 pixels of resolution. The handset is powered by 1.4GHz single-core processor and has 512MB of RAM, 16GB internal memory storage but no microSD slot. Further, Lumia 900 is equipped with an 8 megapixel Carl Zeiss lens camera at 3264 x 2448 pixels of resolution including features like autofocus, geo-tagging, dual LED flash and 720p video capture. Further, it also features a 1-megapixel front-facing camera.
The latest smartphone also boasts of an 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi connection and has 2.1+A2DP Bluetooth. Nokia Lumia 900 also comes loaded with a standard Li-lon 1800 mAh battery with up to 300 hours of stand-by, 7 hours of talk time and 60 hours of music play.
Consumers are impressed with the new handset's spectacular specifications and the new Windows 7.5 Mango OS which brings more than 500 new features including dynamic Live Tile Information, Twitter and LinkedIn integration in the People hub. It seems that a lot of consumers have gone for the new device and now they would want to explore the app market for a great start with their shiny new devices. Nokia has been hard at work on new apps for quite a while. Most of that work has gone into Nokia's own operating system Symbian, but now its Microsoft partnership will be the focus. That's why Nokia has a few free apps that are only available to Lumia phone owners.
