Nokia Lumia 900 review: The US flagship Lumia that pushed Windows Phone with a bigger screen and LTE.
The big US Windows Phone push.
The Lumia 900 was Nokia and Microsoft's major US marketing assault — a bigger screen, LTE and a front camera at an aggressive on-contract price. Its inability to upgrade to Windows Phone 8 cut its life short, but it was the boldest early Lumia statement.
01Display
64/10064/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2012.
02Camera
58/10058/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2012.
03Performance
54/10054/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2012.
04Battery
60/10060/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2012.
05Build
74/100At 74/100 this is one of the strongest build showings among flagship phones of 2012 — 13 points above the cohort average.
06Value
58/100At 58/100 this is one of the strongest value showings among flagship phones of 2012 — 10 points above the cohort average.
- Bigger 4.3" ClearBlack AMOLED + LTE.
- Front camera added.
- Bold polycarbonate colours.
- Aggressive $99-on-contract US launch.
- Stuck on WP7.5 — no WP8 upgrade.
- WVGA, single-core.
- No microSD.
- WP app gap persisted.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 82-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .