Samsung may still be trailing Apple in U.S. smartphone sales, but according to IDC, the company is now the top mobile and smartphone reseller in the world. The former champ: Nokia, now ranks third after Samsung and Apple, respectively.
If you purchased the $100 Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone from AT&T, Nokia would like to put $100 toward your AT&T bill for the trouble.
Nokia’s Lumia 900 has the makings of the ultimate tech comeback story: A once-proud mobile phone maker makes a desperate pact with Microsoft, which despite its own juggernaut status in the PC market is similarly downtrodden when it comes to smartphones. The pair find a willing wireless carrier in AT&T, and together, they spend a fortune–$100 million, by one estimate–to market what is supposed to be the first Windows Phone in the United States worth caring about.
If you’re looking for a smartphone with a good camera, your options up until now have pretty much been limited to one with either a five-megapixel sensor or an eight-megapixel sensor. Nokia’s hoping you’re really hot for megapixels, though, and has recently announced the 808 PureView — a smartphone with a 41-megapixel camera.
Windows Phone 7.5 Mango is an impressive operating system. Nokia makes nifty hardware. So despite Windows Phone’s tiny market share to date and Nokia’s recent woes, I want to be optimistic about the Finnish phone maker’s return to the U.S. market with slick new Windows Phone-powered handsets. But boy, there are some odd things going on with Nokia’s first Windows Phones that are being marketed here in the States.
File under “good news if true”: Nokia’s Lumia 900, the company’s first premium Windows Phone for the U.S. market, may cost $100 on contract.
In a release exuberantly titled “Lumia 900 Introduction to Trigger Smartphone Renaissance for Nokia and Microsoft,” IHS iSuppli analyst Wayne Lam has some predictions about where the phone market is going between now and 2015. The only prediction I feel safe making about smartphones in 2015 is that it will be startling if nothing disruptive has happened in the category by then… and once a category gets disrupted, all bets are off.
The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show didn’t technically kick off until Tuesday morning, but already, Nokia’s Lumia 900 has become one of the most buzzed-about products.
More than a year after the first Windows Phones launched in the United States, one of them may finally get star treatment. Nokia’s Lumia 900, codenamed “Ace,” will reportedly launch in March on AT&T as a “hero” phone, meaning it’ll get extra advertising and a big sales push at AT&T stores. Microsoft, AT&T and Nokia will apparently spend about $100 million to market the phone.
With U.S. Senators getting involved in the issue about whether or not Americans’ cell activity is being monitored and recorded without their permission, it’s worth asking the most obvious question: How did the offending Carrier IQ software get onto the mobile devices in the first place?
Android, Nokia and Blackberry users, your every key press is being tracked, claims Connecticut systems administrator Trevor Eckhart.
