Nokia Lumia 900: Full Review (2012) – Part 6

Nokia does make a mark with the nice Nokia Blue color theme (it’s the Lumia 900 default) and with a suite of Marketplace apps that include Nokia Drive, Nokia Maps, Nokia Transit, and Nokia Contacts Transfer. This section also highlights partners’ third-party apps, like ESPN and CNN. It’s a shame that the Lumia 900 doesn’t have Nokia’s music app, Music Mix Radio, like its European counterparts, and I hope the right deals are signed soon. The absent app, which serves streaming radio and creates mixes, is similar to a Windows Phone feature, but it’s also an alternative that could give Nokia some additional cred.

Windows Phone OS handily provides e-mail and social networking integration through account log-ins in the settings, an option for linking inboxes together, and support for group messaging. There’s also threaded text and multimedia messaging, and a cool feature that can weave together messages sent between IM and traditional texts. Task-switching, voice search, and scan searches with Bing are also included, as are conference calling and voice dialing.

AT&T also preloads some programs. There’s the carrier’s usual bundle: a bar code and QR code scanner; AT&T Navigator with turn-by-turn directions; AT&T Radio; and AT&T U-verse Mobile. The mobile version of U-verse TV for streaming shows; it costs $9.99 per month if you create a new account from the phone.

The major selling point of the new Lumia 900 is its capacity to offer 4G LTE services. I will not say that it offers the fastest 4G download and upload speeds but it still offers a better service than most of Android-powered 4G phones; Apple is still to come up with an LTE-enabled device.

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