Review: Nokia Lumia 900 for AT&T
A swing and a miss from Nokia
1. The screen has a really crappy bezel around it. This totally ruins the aesthetic of the phone. Quite frankly, this lack of attention to detail is what separates Apple from HTC, Samsung, etc. If Nokia is going to distinguish themselves, they need to pull out the stops on *all* of their hardware expertise and not just phone it in after they get 80% of the way there.
2. The tolerance of the SIM tray is pretty bad by iPhone 4s standards (which are super tight.) It always looks misaligned, though the dark color hides it, it looks pretty bad in the cooler colors.
3. The texture is a lot cheaper feeling than the N800. This isn't quite Samsung-gr...
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bluecoyote said:...
Compared to the N800, there are too many corners cut with this supposedly high-end device.
1. The screen has a really crappy bezel around it. This totally ruins the aesthetic of the phone. Quite frankly, this lack of attention to detail is what separates Apple from HTC, Samsung, etc. If Nokia is going to distinguish themselves, they need to pull out the stops on *all* of their hardware expertise and not just phone it in after they get 80% of the way there.
2. The tolerance of the SIM tray is pretty bad by iPhone 4s standards (which are super tight.) It always looks misaligned, though the dark color hides it, it looks pretty bad in the cooler colors.
3. The texture is a lot cheaper feeling than
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For $100.00 more you could have a clearly nicer phone that you're tethered to for those two years. For the same price, you could also have a much nicer phone that you're tethered to for those two years.
MarryTheNight said:
Dude, the phone is $99 on a contract. It's not that serious.
AND--it's a seriously good phone.
I really find the whole aesthetic direction Windows and Microsoft in general is going with their whole Metro UI is just effing hideous. I never thought that in 2012 we would be moving towards the simplest, most minimalist and just plain ugly UI I could ever have possibly imagined.
We got crazy 3D acceleration in even on low end PCs now and the best M$ could come up with is colored rectangles and a thin font that's overly big and overlaps on to other screens. Just retarded looking. Seriously WTF???!!!!
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I prefer it to Android in many regards, but I view both significantly behind iOS. I actually like the Metro UI too, which does away with a lot of the stupid UI elements we've seen.
The apps for WP7 have been promising too, in part because they avoid the sheer crappiness Android is littered with. But they still aren't as good in quality as iOS (in which most apps are now pretty damn rock solid.) But - like WebOS - they're in this no-mans-land of free and premium that consumers don't respond to.
But WP7's real issues are that its web browser is WAY off of Safari, Chrome, and ...
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1) They sell in record numbers? (You mean to tell me "Apple Sheep" keep growing from 1 million to 14 million?" )
2) It remain the platform for the leading apps? (Tweetbot, Clear, Flipboard, and up until yesterday, even Instagram have no Android equivalents.)
3) It remains the platform of the most graphically sophisticated applications? (Infinity Blade, etc.)
I'll tell you this as a developer: The HTML5, CSS3, and AJAX performance in iOS on an iPhone 4 (not 4S) is faster than any Android handset made, by a factor of about 20 (iPhone 4 vs. Galaxy Nexus.) On the 4S it's by a factor of about 100.
What do sales numbers have to do with how current their technology is? The fact that plasma tv's still sell shows that you are wrong. The truth is that there were already more advanced phones on the market than the iPhone4 and iPhone4s one the days they were released. The HTC EVO is a good example. And if the iPhone isn't outdated, where is the 4G?
2) It remain the platform for the leading apps? (Tweetbot, Clear, Flipboard, and up until yesterday, even Instagram have no Android equivalents.)
Leading apps? In whose opinion? Being exclusive to the minority could hardly make you a leader. If you want to talk leading ap...
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bluecoyote said:...
Compared to the N800, there are too many corners cut with this supposedly high-end device.
1. The screen has a really crappy bezel around it. This totally ruins the aesthetic of the phone. Quite frankly, this lack of attention to detail is what separates Apple from HTC, Samsung, etc. If Nokia is going to distinguish themselves, they need to pull out the stops on *all* of their hardware expertise and not just phone it in after they get 80% of the way there.
2. The tolerance of the SIM tray is pretty bad by iPhone 4s standards (which are super tight.) It always looks misaligned, though the dark color hides it, it looks pretty bad in the cooler colors.
3. The texture is a lot cheaper feeling than
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Camaro = Slow car.
Zpike said:
Yes, and many cars I have driven are slower than a Camaro. But a Camaro is hardly the fastest car on the road.
Wrong forum, this is not a cars forum. It's called Phonescoop; not Carscoop 😕
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