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[BillConnor]

I do not understand the hype for this phone, but the price is more than fair

[KenD90027]

Wow! It's a beautifully designed and very pretty phone. They will take a loss on that price, but will get a TON of new WP adopters....including, quite possibly, me.

[Gimasag3]

This is a fantastic price on such a bold phone. I'm sure that this will spur a strong release. My contract ends in late summer, and I'm definately buying a WP7 device, probably the 900 for its great price and nice specs.

[Justin429]

Oh how I hate to imagine the fanbois and fandroids squirming. Well, not really.

[woodyblack]

BillConnor, on 25 January 2012 - 03:40 PM, said:

I do not understand the hype for this phone, but the price is more than fair

Let's see;
1. It was the biggest showing at CES this year
2. Won a NUMBER of awards for best smartphone at CES
3. Has a Carl Zeis lens

I do not understand why you do not understand the hype for this phone.

[jscott418]

Its a great price and do you want to pay $200 for a China made iPhone or $100 for a China made Windows phone?

[hjmnyc]

jscott418, on 26 January 2012 - 11:16 AM, said:

Its a great price and do you want to pay $200 for a China made iPhone or $100 for a China made Windows phone?

RIGHT ON!!! The Lumia is awesome!

[hjmnyc]

My only hope is that the rumors about the Lumia 900 coming to T-Mobile are true! I'd love to get my hands on this phone...my HTC HD7, while I love it, is getting old. PLEASE CELL PHONE GODS MAKE THE RUMOR COME TRUE!!!

[bearvarine]

I hope they make a model with a physical keyboard. That's a make-or-break feature for me...

[hazydave]

The only surprise here is that they priced the Lumia 900 appropriately. This doesn't compare to the iPhone 4S or the various high-end Android phones. It's got a good camera, but it's lacking dual-core processors (hint: dual core isn't for the OS, it's for high-end apps), a fast GPU (gaming, which is why Apple has the fastest in a phone, in their 4S), a high resolution screen (Android high-end is almost all 1280x720), no 1080p video, no NFC.. all very 2010, early 2011 at best. It does LTE, but AT&T almost doesn't.. they're just rolling out LTE now.

But it's fairly strong competition for the mid-range 4G Androids and the iPhone 4. The iPhone 4 sells for $100; the HTC Thunderbolt is currently "free".

Plus, buyers of high-end smartphones pretty much know what they want before they'll drop $200-$300 on a new device. Those buying the lower-end models are more likely to be looking for "a smartphone", not necessarily convinced of "an iPhone" or "an Android phone". So Windows 7 Phone has a better chance here, anyway.

The hype for this is only that it's Windows Phone and Nokia. The phone itself is an also-ran, but all of the Windows 7 phones so are as well. Nokia just lost another $1.4 billion last quarter, with sales down 29% in a quarter in which both Android and Apple set records. Nokia did sell over a million Lumia phones last quarter, but that didn't match Apple's best day. Or Android's, taken as a whole.

But the pundits remember when Nokia ruled, and despite only a tiny fraction of that Nokia survives, they're ready to see Nokia bounce back. More on the side of reality, Microsoft has shown a willingness to lose money for a decade, as they did with gaming, in order to claim a significant share of a market. Noika might not last that long losing money, but Microsoft actually can. Plus, they'll be pushing hard on desktop users to adopt the Metro interface and WinRT APIs, so pundits are expecting some of that to spill over and push tablet and phone sales. We'll see. But that's why this is seen as interesting... they're not really looking a 2010 specs in 2012 and seeing a great device.

[havasu46]

BillConnor, on 25 January 2012 - 03:40 PM, said:

I do not understand the hype for this phone, but the price is more than fair

It's a very good alternative that's not an Android (robot) or Apple (iToy) product for users of Windows ecosystem at home and in the office. Especially good for Windows developers and users with extensive Windows expertise.

[HugoFonseca]

Something is wrong with the Microsoft\Nokia strategy for the dissemination of Windows Phone, trying to catch up with long ahead android and iPhone competitors.

I live in Portugal and have been 3 days last week in NYC trying to buy the latest Nokia Lumia 900, and no store was selling it without a contract, while to getting any device with one of the other 2 OS’s I could pick any Samsung, HTC, etc.

If my Company was not a Microsoft Partner and I was not so a hard head and decided to go for a “metro style” windows phone to understand how well integrates with our entire Microsoft backbone infrastructure, for sure I had given up on 1st day.

With this absurd strategy being tied to an operator, is like running against an opposite moving crowd… and makes me think if google apps is not moving faster on the business market… and instead of changing our mobiles in the future (from RIM), maybe is our backbone services that needs to move to the cloud… with the “ones” that have the androids.