The price of Nokia's flagship Lumia 900 device has been reduced by half. Lumia 900 now will be available on AT&T's website for $49.99 in blue, black, white, and latest pink with a two-year contract.
With this flagship Nokia phone, Microsoft and Nokia both pinned their hope to answer the critics by making a solid impression in the smartphone market which is still dominated by Google's Android and Apple's iOS. But according to a recent report from Nielsen, the U.S. market is still under control of Android devices as about 51.8 percent of American smartphone owners currently own an Android device whereas Apple iPhone comes to the second spot with 34.3 percent and RIM comes third with 8.1 percent of BlackBerry users. Windows phones, on the other hand, are lagging much behind in terms of market share.
But the Nielsen report reveals that the old Windows Mobile platform is still doing better business with three percent market share than the new Windows 7's 1.3 percent. Nielsen, in its present study, has also found that despite Microsoft's close allies with Nokia, most of the Windows Phone users are opting for Samsung or HTC devices. But, the analyst firm in a separate study, has also mentioned that 96 percent of Lumia 900 owners are either extremely or somewhat satisfied with their smartphone and 95 percent would recommend the phone to others. Moreover, 83 percent of the users said that Lumia 900 has exceeded their expectations while 85 percent say they would repurchase the Lumia 900.
The Lumia 900, which was previously launched at $99 and called "iconic, beautiful and fast" by Chris Weber, Nokia's president in North America, features a 4.3-inch screen with 800 x 480 pixels Super AMOLED Plus capacitive ClearBlack touch-screen and 217 ppi density, a polycarbonate body, Windows Phone 7.5 Mango OS but soon will have 7.8 version that will improve the phone's start screen, a 1.4-GHz Scorpion single-core processor, Qualcomm APQ8055 Snapdragon chipset, Adreno 205 GPU with 16GB internal storage and 512MB RAM along with an 8-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens.
