Essential accessories for your new Lumia 900

Published by Jason Harris on April 13, 2012

Nokia Lumia 900

SUNNYVALE, CA, United States- Now that you’ve opened the box of your Nokia Lumia 900, and have become familiar with your new phone, there are some useful and down-right entertaining accessories to enhance your Nokia experience.

How about some suggestions that will let your phone rock whether you’re on the go or in your home? Let’s dive right in.

Nokia Soft Cover

Nokia Soft CoverThe Nokia Lumia 900 is constructed of high-quality polycarbonate construction. However, drops are unavoidable when you own a mobile phone. Even though the Lumia 900 is one tough cookie, those who want to preserve the perfectness of their new smartphone will want to check out the Nokia Soft Cover.

This soft rubberized case adds nice shock protection to the back and sides of the Lumia 900 without adding excess bulk. The case, made by Nokia, allows for easy access to all of the Lumia 900′s ports and buttons without getting in the way. Also, they match the color of your new Lumia 900 perfectly. In fact, on my 900, folks can’t even tell I have a case on it until I point it out, which is rare in the land of mobile phone cases.

Nokia Purity HD Headset By Monster

Nokia-Purity-HD-stereo-headset-by-MonsterThe Nokia Lumia 900 is a music lovers’ dream. For me, I am constantly utilizing Spotify on my Lumia 900 to satisfy whatever musical mood I happen to be in. 

For the audiophiles reading this, I present the Purity HD Headset By Monster. This headset comes through a partnership between Nokia and Monster, the high-end audio company we’re all familiar with here in the States. The Purity HD Headset comes in black, white and cyan and matches the Lumia 900 perfectly.

With on-board microphone and call controls no the headset, you can also handle calls in addition to rocking out to your tunes. You can easily find Nokia Purity HD Headset By Monster is available for sale at your local AT&T store.

Nokia Play360° Wireless Speaker

Nokia Play360 Wireless SpeakerIf the Purity HD Headset is for rocking while on the go – the Play360° Wireless Speaker is for when you want to get your music loud and present while at home. This Bluetooth enabled speaker also matches the color of your Lumia 900, whether you have matte black or cyan (picking up on the theme, yet?) and sounds absolutely terrific.

This highly engineered speaker system pumps out omnidirectional sound so no matter where you are in the room with the Play360, your audio sounds amazing. On the Play360, you can control volume using the + and – buttons on the device.

The Play360 Wireless Speaker connects via Bluetooth – and using NFC if your phone supports it – and through a standard 3.5 mm. cord. The speaker also features a battery for up to 20 hours of rocking out when you can’t find a power outlet.

Which accessory will complete your Lumia 900 package?  We look forward to seeing your must-haves in the comment below.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Zahl/1670371040 Steven Zahl

    The Market has Spoken. 3% Share for WP7

    People don’t like Tiles.

    They like Icons.

    • Anonymous

      Many Tech bloggers who hated the live tiles at first are now liking them.

      Read through the #Lumia900 #Nokia hashtags on twitter and you’ll quickly find out a lot of people are switching over from their iPhones or Android devices.

      Alot of people are also waiting for Apollo (WP8) to drop later this year before making a switch. That marketshare will begin to show some growth soon enough also once more Lumia devices are available in other carriers besides AT&T and T-Mobile

    • http://twitter.com/Hdrules Hradayesh Nimavat

      Though I never tried any windows phone but judging from reviews I think it is perfectly clear that user needs some time to get used to windows phone os so if you just play around with windows phone for 5-10 mins in a shop then you may find windows phone os boring and you would perhaps hate tiles ui mainly because it is very different from ui of other oses

      • Anonymous

        Even if you play with it much longer Windows Phone will still fail. There are to much stuff not supported or the user is forced to use the microsoft way instead of commonly used solutions.

        • Anonymous

          Like throwing your android on the ground when it locks up?

          • Anonymous

            I never used Android before, but perhaps something like that.

          • Anonymous

            Yes, but at Android you have the chance to restart your phone and do it afterwards. At Windows Phone there is no way to do the job if Microsoft has forgotten your specific usecase.

          • http://davepermen.net davepermen

            like what usecases my dear?

            doing phonecalls?
            messaging?
            mails?
            internet?
            music?
            videos?
            news?
            social stuff?
            navigation?
            photos?
            gaming?
            shopping?

            yes, it can’t make me coffee, nor a sandwich, but it can do what a phone is ment to do, and it can do it well.

          • Anonymous

            I replyed with a list of stuff I’m doing daily with more smart smartphones. Thanks goes to the admin to delete my posting.

            If you want to understand it search beside the nokia homepage for reasons why the most geeks are refusing the limited windows platform and the sevices.

          • http://davepermen.net davepermen

            no i don’t want to search. you can mail me if you want (davepermen@hotmail.com).

            just stop calling it a limited windows platform and services thing. that’s a moronic thing to do. every (i repeat: EVERY) platform is limited. no platform has support from everything else on every other platform. each is “on it’s own”.

        • http://davepermen.net davepermen

          imagine if the ‘microsoft way’ is the smartest and most clever way that existed so far.

          would you like to miss out just because you’re braindead stubborn fixed on some hate?

          and guess what: after all the phones i’ve worked and toyed with, so far it is the smartest and most clever way. from “idiots” to powerusers alike.

          but yes, it’s different. then again, that was what meego was about, too.. and there you’ve embraced it for no other reason except for being different.

    • http://twitter.com/mcbeaven mcbeav

      you should probably try it before you knock it. You can’t judge a phone without actually using it as your main device. I sell phones, and what i see is the biggest thing is that people are afraid of it because it is new. My coworkers immediately reccomend something else, but non have them have even tried it. I got a couple of them to try it out and now they recommend it all the time.

    • http://twitter.com/mcbeaven mcbeav

      you should probably try it before you knock it. You can’t judge a phone without actually using it as your main device. I sell phones, and what i see is the biggest thing is that people are afraid of it because it is new. My coworkers immediately reccomend something else, but non have them have even tried it. I got a couple of them to try it out and now they recommend it all the time.

    • Anonymous

      3% ? :-(   
      I thought and hoped they have only 2%.

      But in my opinion the Tiles are not the main problem. The technical issues and the .NET framework are the main reasons. Tiles are only design.

      • http://davepermen.net davepermen

        It’s growing, showing how you’re on the wrong path.

        Tiles are no problem (but people not understanding them can be). Nor is .NET, as it’s a wellknown and much used development platform. And technical issues aren’t there. Maybe you meant limitations? That’s what “smoked by windows phone” is for: showing how those limitations in the end don’t matter.

      • http://davepermen.net davepermen

        It’s growing, showing how you’re on the wrong path.

        Tiles are no problem (but people not understanding them can be). Nor is .NET, as it’s a wellknown and much used development platform. And technical issues aren’t there. Maybe you meant limitations? That’s what “smoked by windows phone” is for: showing how those limitations in the end don’t matter.

      • http://davepermen.net davepermen

        It’s growing, showing how you’re on the wrong path.

        Tiles are no problem (but people not understanding them can be). Nor is .NET, as it’s a wellknown and much used development platform. And technical issues aren’t there. Maybe you meant limitations? That’s what “smoked by windows phone” is for: showing how those limitations in the end don’t matter.

    • Anonymous

      They like features. The Tiles doesn’t mather…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Zahl/1670371040 Steven Zahl

    The Market has Spoken. 3% Share for WP7

    People don’t like Tiles.

    They like Icons.

  • http://twitter.com/PaulEnRoute ¤| Paul |¤

    I hope Apollo doesn’t disappoint me, because I’m REALLY looking forward to buying a Lumia device.

  • http://twitter.com/PaulEnRoute ¤| Paul |¤

    I hope Apollo doesn’t disappoint me, because I’m REALLY looking forward to buying a Lumia device.

  • Anonymous

    Isn’t this the 360° speaker for the superior Nokia N9?

    • Anonymous

      The 360° works with any bluetooth enabled phone. So, it works with all Lumias and the N9.  yes, the NFC pairing works with the N9 quite nicely.

  • Anonymous

    I love the large tiles on the lumia. Icons are so small and take too long to find what you are looking for. Considering the ATT comments about high demand ,I would say the hunt and peck method of android and apple is seeing a challenge that strikes fear into their limited innovation ability.

  • http://twitter.com/mcbeaven mcbeav

    for everyone hating on WP7, youre just a hater. I have actually used almost every OS as my main phone including iOS, webOS, WP7, and Android, and I prefer WP7 to everything. It is fresh, and aesthetically pleasing. I sell phones, and have the choice of using any of these operating systems and i chose WP7. It is extremely stable, most of the apps you would actually use are available, and it is extremely intuitive. Stop acting like a child.

    EDIT: I will also say, the on screen keyboard is the best I have used. It is the most accurate and has the best layout that i have used.

    • Anonymous

      Perhaps instead of trying only iOS, webOS and WP7 you should have tryed the currently best mobile system at the Nokia N9. Then you would be able to understand why some people are doing as much as possible to let WP7 and WP8 fail. At example, I managed to forbid WP7.x devices at our company network. Before I had no problem with those devices and there was technically no issue. But Nokia created a martyr out of maemo (MeeGo-Harmattan) and I had this way a personal problem to allow Windows Phone devices at our company network.

      • http://twitter.com/KnowNow2 Bryant Roperto

        Mistel, your attempt and/or desire for WP to fail translates into a desire for Nokia to fail.  

        • Anonymous

          I see currently Nokia failing. But it’s not the fault of the user Mistel, it’s the fault of bad Management which was betting a whole company on a product which is only in a single country popular, if ever. We will see in the next months how well it is performing in the U.S.A.

          It would have been simple, selling booth, the low end Windows Phones and the hi end MeeGo Smartphones. They are already targetting totally different people.

          But they were afraid the WP phones could sell not so well if they have a better product in the same market while ignoring that Nokia is not the only manufacturer.

          And if Nokia is unable to sell Smartphones, Samsung will do as they do just in the moment!

      • http://twitter.com/KnowNow2 Bryant Roperto

        Mistel, your attempt and/or desire for WP to fail translates into a desire for Nokia to fail.  

      • http://davepermen.net davepermen

        so you deny your company a good quality product just because you have a personal problem with it? way to show you’re a quality worker indeed.

        guess what? at least nokia was smarter than you, and moved on where there is actually something to move on.

        WP7 was awesome way before nokia came in. Meego was dead even then.

        You are just a narrow minded person who should never be able to decide anything for a corporation. Hope they find out and throw you out of your position asap.

      • http://davepermen.net davepermen

        so you deny your company a good quality product just because you have a personal problem with it? way to show you’re a quality worker indeed.

        guess what? at least nokia was smarter than you, and moved on where there is actually something to move on.

        WP7 was awesome way before nokia came in. Meego was dead even then.

        You are just a narrow minded person who should never be able to decide anything for a corporation. Hope they find out and throw you out of your position asap.

        • Anonymous

          As I posted long time ago, I belief Nokia created some kind of very bad mood by killing the last real linux smartphone with such a large and influential community.

          The Linux geeks are today the matchmaker. Look at Android, derided at the beginning, very buggy, but the geeks loved it because there were somewhere linux inside, even if it is hidden behind a java VM. But the geeks are those who getting asked what phone you could buy the next time. 

          And since maemo and MeeGo was killed because of the unpolished .NET platform Windows Phone the most not iPhone and not Android bloggers, forum posters, cell phone salesmen and even such decision maker like MistelMistel are refusing to give WP a chance.

          As I alsways said. With both systems, side by side, Nokia would have won. The Hardware is great. The Geeks are loving Linux. And Windows Phone is good for those who are switching from the iPhone. 

          At the moment they killed the Linux part Nokia became the bogeyman. And I’m afraid this way they will never again become the No 1. And this is really sad. :-(

          • http://davepermen.net davepermen

            the only really sad thing is those linux nerds who can not accept other platforms beauty. because in the end, even for a nerd, a phone is, most and foremost, a phone (if they DO have some form of social life, that is :)). and then, they should really give windows phone a chance, as it’s a great phone.

            and yes, I would still say this if it would be linux based. the reason why I don’t like the whole linux world is just that one: Stupid closed minded people like those fanboys. Which is kinda ironic, because that’s totally not what linux would be about. Then again, linus himself is quite the dick, too.

          • Anonymous

            You are perhaps a fanboy or misinterpreting others reasons to claim Windows Phone a bad platform.

            Windows Phone is a great system for phones. But you needs are your needs, and other people are nowdays prefering and buying Smartphones, not phones.

            And exactly at this the WP platform sucks badly. No full USB support, no Bluetooth, no real Multitasking, no native applications, very limited access to the OWN files and stuff. It feels a lot more closed than the jalibreak-platform-No1, iOS. It just feels like a advertising platform for Microsoft services like cloud storage, the failed Zune system and Bing search. 

            Just NO! If you want a WP, buy one. But dont pick at people who want more for their money.

          • http://davepermen.net davepermen

            and none of those is really needed to have a great smartphone platform (you know, the one where the phone is smart enough to do stuff for you, not you having to be smart to do all on your own).
            it’s the smartest of the smartphones out there. not features matter, but usability. but people get trained to look for features (even features that are non existant just to sell stuff).
            yes i do pick at people who don’t understand that yet.

            there’s no need to have usb support, that’s low level. what matters if you can get your data on and off the phone easily. how? doesn’t matter per se.

            there’s no need for all those fancy bluetooth things if it handles what bluetooth gets used for 99% of the time: headsets and car connections.

            there’s no need for multitasking if it, again, delivers all that’s needed to quickly go trough your stuff you want to do (and it does that better than f.e. ios)

            native applications? does that matter in any form? no. apps have to be fast, performance has to be there. and it’s there.

            why should i have to manage my files on my own, again, on a phone? do i need explorer? or even cmd? to browse my files? again: no. if i can access my content in a more high level, more tailored and smart way, why should i go down to individual file management, ever, again?

            or to put it differently: for a lot of people, it is too smart. that’ll take time to understand.

          • Anonymous

            No, this are the stuff that seperates Smartphones from simple Featurephones. 

            Marketing bushwa away. If the phone is unable to do the stuff I want to do it is not smart enought. Not the other way arround. 

            Microsoft created some use cases around their own products. If you have only a single use case outside of Microsofts big plan you have no chance to solve your issue. And this is the problem. Windows Phone is uncapable in so many ways even if the user interface is okay. Not good

            It doesn’t feel like a smart device. It feels like a device which has the opinion that the user is always dumb and silly. And I don’t want to feel always nitty while using a product I paid a lot of money for.

            If you really mean, as claimed in your last paragraph, the most users are anyway fools, then I ask you why are the Windows Phone platform only in the country successful which voted twice for George W. Bush?

          • Anonymous

            No, this are the stuff that seperates Smartphones from simple Featurephones. 

            Marketing bushwa away. If the phone is unable to do the stuff I want to do it is not smart enought. Not the other way arround. 

            Microsoft created some use cases around their own products. If you have only a single use case outside of Microsofts big plan you have no chance to solve your issue. And this is the problem. Windows Phone is uncapable in so many ways even if the user interface is okay. Not good

            It doesn’t feel like a smart device. It feels like a device which has the opinion that the user is always dumb and silly. And I don’t want to feel always nitty while using a product I paid a lot of money for.

            If you really mean, as claimed in your last paragraph, the most users are anyway fools, then I ask you why are the Windows Phone platform only in the country successful which voted twice for George W. Bush?

          • http://davepermen.net davepermen

            Except that it isn’t. It’s as successful in other countries, and gets praise everywhere BY ITS USERS (who are from moms to geeks all the way).

            Well, it can deliver all i want (even if some stuff only trough apps and not integrated), which makes your point mood. it’s a smart phone that is smart in my definition (it’s a phone doing it’s stuff in a SMART way so I DON’T HAVE TO THINK TO USE IT), and in your way (it can do EVERYTHING TROUGH EXTENDING IT).

            then again, so was my sony ericsson 5 years ago. i could install apps, browse the web, chat instead of using sms, run games, etc.. it can do everything the fancy android or ios phone could. it did not have an as big and fancy app store, yes, but it could do it all, before even an iphone popped up).

            and no, i don’t feel dump and silly using a phone that is well designed to be EASY TO USE. i feel smart not needlessly complicating my life with crappy os designs and structures.

            it just works, and it works VERY WELL.

            so, enjoy your life where you think complexity is what is needed to separate you as a geek. but those people are dying out. those who are smart by using the tools that serve them best, those are the ones who will win in the long run.

          • http://davepermen.net davepermen

            Except that it isn’t. It’s as successful in other countries, and gets praise everywhere BY ITS USERS (who are from moms to geeks all the way).

            Well, it can deliver all i want (even if some stuff only trough apps and not integrated), which makes your point mood. it’s a smart phone that is smart in my definition (it’s a phone doing it’s stuff in a SMART way so I DON’T HAVE TO THINK TO USE IT), and in your way (it can do EVERYTHING TROUGH EXTENDING IT).

            then again, so was my sony ericsson 5 years ago. i could install apps, browse the web, chat instead of using sms, run games, etc.. it can do everything the fancy android or ios phone could. it did not have an as big and fancy app store, yes, but it could do it all, before even an iphone popped up).

            and no, i don’t feel dump and silly using a phone that is well designed to be EASY TO USE. i feel smart not needlessly complicating my life with crappy os designs and structures.

            it just works, and it works VERY WELL.

            so, enjoy your life where you think complexity is what is needed to separate you as a geek. but those people are dying out. those who are smart by using the tools that serve them best, those are the ones who will win in the long run.

          • Anonymous

            No, this are the stuff that seperates Smartphones from simple Featurephones. 

            Marketing bushwa away. If the phone is unable to do the stuff I want to do it is not smart enought. Not the other way arround. 

            Microsoft created some use cases around their own products. If you have only a single use case outside of Microsofts big plan you have no chance to solve your issue. And this is the problem. Windows Phone is uncapable in so many ways even if the user interface is okay. Not good

            It doesn’t feel like a smart device. It feels like a device which has the opinion that the user is always dumb and silly. And I don’t want to feel always nitty while using a product I paid a lot of money for.

            If you really mean, as claimed in your last paragraph, the most users are anyway fools, then I ask you why are the Windows Phone platform only in the country successful which voted twice for George W. Bush?

          • Anonymous

            No, this are the stuff that seperates Smartphones from simple Featurephones. 

            Marketing bushwa away. If the phone is unable to do the stuff I want to do it is not smart enought. Not the other way arround. 

            Microsoft created some use cases around their own products. If you have only a single use case outside of Microsofts big plan you have no chance to solve your issue. And this is the problem. Windows Phone is uncapable in so many ways even if the user interface is okay. Not good

            It doesn’t feel like a smart device. It feels like a device which has the opinion that the user is always dumb and silly. And I don’t want to feel always nitty while using a product I paid a lot of money for.

            If you really mean, as claimed in your last paragraph, the most users are anyway fools, then I ask you why are the Windows Phone platform only in the country successful which voted twice for George W. Bush?

      • http://davepermen.net davepermen

        so you deny your company a good quality product just because you have a personal problem with it? way to show you’re a quality worker indeed.

        guess what? at least nokia was smarter than you, and moved on where there is actually something to move on.

        WP7 was awesome way before nokia came in. Meego was dead even then.

        You are just a narrow minded person who should never be able to decide anything for a corporation. Hope they find out and throw you out of your position asap.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=722255984 Juan A. Rivera

    Got mine yesterday and I have to say I’m in love with this phone…coming from someone who has also tried other platforms. The accessory I immediately got was a cover.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=722255984 Juan A. Rivera

    Got mine yesterday and I have to say I’m in love with this phone…coming from someone who has also tried other platforms. The accessory I immediately got was a cover.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001874456129 Zack Ang

    It will be great if Lumia can connected with HDTV

    • http://conversations.nokia.com/ Adam Fraser

      If you’ve got a DLNA-capable HDTV, you can stream videos and photos straight to the TV – wirelessly. There’s an app called Nokia Play To from the Nokia Beta Labs, and you can read all about it here: http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/03/29/nokia-play-to-for-nokia-lumia/

      • Anonymous

        This works only if the TV is connected to the LAN and if you have access to it. So no chance to connect to a TV at a hotel. And this is the usecase ever for TV out. 

        For what would I need such a feature at home?!

  • http://www.facebook.com/jhermikoski Juho Hermikoski

    This 360 speaker is awesome! I have been using mine for 2 weeks now with my nfc enabled Nokia 701. 

    Sound quality is just as good as in my four times larger iPod dock speaker! In my use the battery lasts for days! Highly recommended!

  • Scott James

    Hey Jason — are the covers available in Canada yet?  Rogers only has the black 900 so far, and I was really coveting a cyan model, but that cover looks to be the next best thing.

  • Scott James

    Hey Jason — are the covers available in Canada yet?  Rogers only has the black 900 so far, and I was really coveting a cyan model, but that cover looks to be the next best thing.

  • Djanane Hodge

    Thank you!! These are helpful. Can wait to buy the speakers.
    BTW I am so please with Lumia 900. We get a lot of software with Nokia!
    I only have this device for a day and already personalized to my total convenience and peace of mind and im not even that savvy. But the phone makes it easy. I cant wait to see what more i can get from it, in the upcoming days.
    Every cent I am paying for the contract on this phone, will pay for itself, as it is as equal to iphone as you could ever get for half price, but wait, I save 200 dollars I would spend on Iphone because I will get it for free after a month.
    Also I paid 99 bucks for this phone and after a month they will put the 100 dollars back and give me this incredible phone for free.
    It’s an amazing device, look, feel, battery, it’s so super fast and at half the price of the iphone for just a sec slower at some certain websites, it is a far better value. The 4LTE technology succeeds iphone, live tiles are cool, no glare, has an FM receiver, the front camera is amazing, too amazing. And let’s admit the cyan color is just sexy!
    Also I just love the speech and voice activating text and calls feature. I was pleasantly surprised after I set up speech recognition, I was listening to my favorite FM local radio which is free under music and videos. I got a text, phone spoke, read it to me, gave me an option to reply or ignore the text,and this all totally hands free. I also like xboxlive for my son and all the games we get for free. Microsoft Office will be very useful to me. I like the bing features as well, I like the Name the song which is a feature by pressing down the music icon on bing reccognizes the song similar which I know to be an iphone it is an app or feature, and
    I  also adore the feature where i can take a photo of something in another language and it will translate to me in the spot. I love finding recipes and fun family activites by pressing the home button speech find. there are alot useful apps I already found a few education flascards to my youngest to teach her how to read.
     I also like the trial on in a very inexpensive app called “Invisible phone” which allows me to text and see where i am going while walking or jogging, but I like it even better speech text, so I dont have to type so much.
    Lumia 900 is just AWESOME! I’m totally in love, and may never desire an iphone ever again!!!