All of the physical buttons - the volume rocker, power button, and the camera - live on the right edge of the phone, which makes it confusing to figure out by feel which is which. My one complaint about the hardware lies in the placement of the buttons. It's available in black, white, and blue, and while I was disappointed that Nokia didn't have a white unit to lend me, I ended up loving the blue - it is easy to find in a bag. 45-inch-thick phone a thicker base, but it also makes it very comfortable to hold. The back cover and the rounded edges are made out of polycarbonate, a very durable scratch-free plastic, but feels a lot like metal. It's pretty hard to make a smartphone stand out these days - considering they're mostly screen with cases as flat as possible - but the Lumia 900 doesn't look like any other phone on the market. But is a great value enough to catapult Nokia ahead of the competition? It costs $99.99 (with a two-year contract) and is packed to the brim with top-of-the-line components, including an AMOLED ClearBlack display, 8-megapixel camera, and AT&T's 4G LTE network for fast browsing speeds. It is one of the first phones to hit the market since the company announced its partnership with Microsoft and its plans to use Windows Phone, rather than the Symbian operating systems it had used in the past.īut it's more than just another Windows Phone. The Lumia 900, which hits AT&T stores this week, is Nokia's comeback kid, or at least that's what the company is betting on. Today, as you might have guessed, not one person I know owns a Nokia phone. While I laughed, I couldn't blame her for asking - ten years ago, almost everyone I knew had a Nokia phone, ones with monochrome displays and differently colored faces. April 3, 2012— - "Nokia still makes phones?" a friend of mine asked the other day.
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