The Nokia Lumia 900 represents a number of firsts: it is the first high-finish Windows Phone from Nokia to get in in the U.Southward., it is the first 4G LTE smartphone from Nokia, and it is i of the first 4G LTE Windows Phones on the market.

Like the Lumia 800 that preceded it, the Lumia 900 features stunning industrial blueprint, great build quality, and a fantastic ClearBlack AMOLED brandish. Add in corking network functioning, solid battery life, and a fast and fluid user interface thanks to Windows Phone 7.five, and you start to see that Nokia really might have a winner on their easily.

Unfortunately, it'southward not all peaches and roses with the Lumia 900, as its seemingly capable photographic camera does not alive up to expectations in real world performance. Additionally, the Windows Phone Marketplace nonetheless doesn't offer nearly as many apps as its iOS and Android counterparts, though it has grown tremendously in recent months.

Despite its few shortcomings, I institute the Lumia 900 to be an excellent smartphone, and I had a hard time putting it down during my review menses. Read on to see if the Lumia 900 is the hero device that Windows Phone has needed from the get-go to exist a successful smartphone platform and whether it volition represent Nokia's return to course in the U.S. market.

Hardware

The Nokia Lumia 900's design borrows heavily from the Lumia 800 and Nokia N9 that preceded it, as it features a single slice, polycarbonate torso. The Lumia 900's color, whether that be on the matte cyan or black models, or the sleeky white version, is role of the polycarbonate material used to make the phone, and so information technology cannot be scratched off like painted finishes. The Lumia's design itself is stunning as it's removed whatever elements that could intermission upward its smooth curves all around. In your hand, the curved sides mask its 11.4mm thickness, and though it tips the scales at 159g, it doesn't experience uncomfortably heavy.

The centerpiece of the Lumia 900 is its new iv.3-inch screen. It sports a ClearBlack AMOLED display that features tremendous viewing angles, inky deep blacks, and punchy colors. Nokia'southward ClearBlack polarization technology eliminates a lot of the glare we run across on many smartphone displays, and it allows the Lumia 900 to be perfectly usable outdoors in direct sunlight. Dissimilar the AMOLED screens on other popular smartphones, the Lumia's does not unnaturally over-saturate colors, so images and video are more than accurately portrayed.

The WVGA, 480 x 800 pixel screen could certainly do good from a denser resolution, especially when it is compared to the 720p and Retina Display screens offered by the competition. But, aside the from the relatively low resolution, in that location is niggling to complain virtually with the 900's display, though its large size could brand i-handed utilize of the phone difficult for some.

The right-hand side of the phone is home to the merely physical buttons on the Lumia 900. It has shiny metal buttons for volume, power/sleep/unlock, and camera shutter that feel very solid. On top is the micro-USB charging port, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a SIM card tray, while the bottom houses the external speaker.

On the forepart of the phone, beneath the display, are capacitive buttons for the standard Windows Phone back, Start, and search functions. Above the screen is the new one megapixel, wide-bending front-facing camera.

The dorsum of the 900 features a shine end, with the housing for the viii megapixel camera and its LED flash the only things nowadays to break up the phone's continuous lines. Since there are no seams or doors (aside from the micro-SIM card access tray), that means there is no way to access the 1830mAh battery or increase the phone'southward 16GB internal storage with a microSD card.