Got satisfaction: Lumia 900 owners delighted with their new phones

Published by Boc Ly on July 9, 2012

Nokia Lumia 900

We know that the Nokia Lumia 900 is a great smartphone and we have plenty of awards to show for it, including best phone at CES 2012.

Just last week we reported that the Nokia Lumia 900 (and its smaller sister, the Lumia 800) won gold at the prestigious International Design Excellence Awards.

Awards are great, but what really matters of course, is how our customers, the people who use it every day, feel about it.

According to a brand new survey of US customers conducted for Nokia by the independent research company Nielsen, the overwhelming majority of them love the Lumia 900, just as much as we do.

  • 96 per cent of owners are extremely satisfied or somewhat satisfied with their Lumia 900
  • 95 per cent of owners are willing to recommend the Lumia 900
  • 83 per cent say that their expectations are better or much better than expected
  • 85 per cent say they would repurchase the Lumia 900

Another interesting finding from the survey was the Lumia 900’s Net Promoter Score (NPS). This is a measure of customer loyalty and whether someone is a likely to recommend a product or a service, or not.

As a rule of thumb, a NPS score above 0 is good and above 50 is excellent. The NPS for the Nokia Lumia 900 is 63.

Design, OS and ease of use

Delving deeper into the numbers is also illuminating.

Nielsen survey for Nokia

More than 90 per cent of the respondents believe that the Lumia 900 is better than other mobile phones.

Nielsen survey for Nokia

Nearly all Lumia 900 owners believe it has an attractive design, is fast, and easy to use.

When asked why they would recommend the phone, those three factors also scored highly.

Respondents said:

“Windows Phone – plus the stunningly different design from Nokia – in tandem, they offer an unprecedented, joyous mobile experience.”

“The hardware is very good-stylish and durable.”

“I would recommend the Lumia 900 specifically because of the strong support Nokia is putting behind it.”

A large majority of Lumia 900 owners (83 per cent) have downloaded apps and, of those, 95 per cent thought downloading a game or app from Windows Phone Marketplace was easy to do.

Here are more comments on usability:

“Great phone with a trim OS that lets you get things done quicker than on an iPhone.”

“It’s a phone that I want to use, rather than one I dread using.”

“You spend more time doing what you want and less time looking for apps.”

Nokia Lumia 900

About two-thirds of the people who took part in the survey bought their phone in-store, and of those 90 per cent took place in an AT&T.

Garlanded with awards and loved by its users, it seems the Nokia Lumia 900 is truly both a critics’ favorite and a phone for the people.

The survey was conducted for Nokia by leading market researchers, Nielsen, between April 27, 2012 and on May 18, 2012.

A total of 810 people spent an average 18 minutes completing an online questionnaireAll the respondents had bought a Nokia Lumia 900 in the United States within the previous 45 days and was the primary user of the device.

Comments

  • http://www.facebook.com/rcanto82 Rodrigo Canto

    Tudo caô

  • http://twitter.com/gregstar5 Gregstar5

    Why would anybody buy a half baked product like Nokia always does 

    • http://twitter.com/counterblow the person

      I’m guessing it’s for people who aren’t fully baked like yourself.

      • http://twitter.com/gregstar5 Gregstar5

         Have several seats with your dumb comment

        • http://twitter.com/NorrathReaver Shane Nokes

           I’m sorry, but could you post something that actually makes sense?

          This last comment I can’t even tell what it was you were trying to say. Have several seats?

          I’m at a loss for the lack of clarity or thought put into that comment.

          • http://twitter.com/gregstar5 Gregstar5

             Was  i talkin to you  ? no so shut your damn mouth

          • UlyssesGhost

             Don’t worry about it Shane, it made no sense.  He was probably using an android and it force closed while posting, that is why the sentence is incomplete and makes no sense.

  • r1james

    Design is great,  OS windowsphone is the bad aspect. Conclusion: Do not buy it.

    • Prasenjit Bist

      hav u used a lumia u knw in india they have a full money back offer on lumia and so far return rate is only 2 %

      • Kadusch

        I’ve used it and still own it but stopped using it. Not the Lumia 900, but the Lumia 800. It is almost the same… 

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

    Yankee Group analysts saying otherwise with title name “Lumia 900 Dashed hopes for a hero phone” which result is true lol ? 

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

    Yankee Group analysts saying otherwise with title name “Lumia 900 Dashed hopes for a hero phone” which result is true lol ? 

  • Gaichuke

    How come the other recent study made by Yankee Group got completely opposite results? This study here is much more conclusive than theirs, but it still odd that the results differ that much.

    • http://conversations.nokia.com Ian Delaney

      Indeed – and that’s a good comment on the phone as a whole. WP is very different to the other OSes out there, and you need to live with it a little while and personalise it before you really appreciate its worth.

  • dliao

    I would like to see the survey conducted after the windows phone summit after most consumers found out their phone can’t be upgraded like other modern smartphone OS platforms.

    • guesttt999

      No platform provides a full upgrade to newer versions. you don’t get Siri with iPhone 4. They all want users to buy new phones every few years. Even consumers want newer phones with new hardware and software innovations.

      • dliao

        but most of them provided upgrade path none the less and continued the app support. No one argued that current nokia phone should get every features that wp8 has. So don’t bring the Siri or face unlock or whatever ICS didn’t bring into discussion

        • UlyssesGhost

          I am uncertain as to your point.  WP7.8 will certainly be supported for quite some time with both bug fixes and app support.  The OS is fluid and stable and works; hence the high satisfaction ratings. On android other than the Flagship phones the vast majority of androids are never updated  and some have poor support for bug fixes. 

          • dliao

            Well i think it will be a lengthy debate to talk about the topic on the feature set of 7.8 here as I was just merely curious on what Nokia Lumia 900 adopters’ reaction is after the WP Summit announcement as this survey was done before that. 

  • Breakingillusions

    with Lumia wp8 the extremely satisfied the bar will reach the top :) 

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

      Richard Kerris, Nokia’s Global Head of Developer Relations in recent interview with neowin told that phones which 
      “people will be climbing over themselves” will come by spring of 2013 thats still 9 months to go….what nokia will release before that? 

      • steelicon

        Probably a Symbian device?

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

          Nokia 808 is last symbian phone according to an insider who had leaked accurate info about many things in past.

          • http://www.facebook.com/zinno Zinno Ezeani

            …Last symbian device???  That’s not good!!!

        • Kadusch

          A worldwide release of the superior Nokia N9  with updated Hardware would be great.

  • Prasenjit Bist

    @twitter-329186169:disqus fyi Nielsen is a reputed company and yankee group who? now its up to u u want to call sun a sun or moon..
    Nokia windows phones are awesome and the coming ones will be great i dont know RIM will die or samsung will commit suicide but nokia will rule the mobile world till the world ends… the raw talent and innovation.
    u guys cry meego wat is meego theres no complete os called meego n9 was harmattan and wat made it unique was swipe UI and not the linux underneath and many started shouting nokia linux as if they were born with a linux code LOL…. 

    as a consumer we sud focus on Nokia and ask for quality look how gud they made the symbian 3 with belle and all how cool asha touch is i am excited abt smarterphone guys and also WP8 and as Nokia VP said amen let their be ppl running over themselves to get a nokia

    i want that spring of 200 for Nokia… My Nokia back to its glory days and for that we need hope and patience I know nokia results r testing our patience but thats the fun when the hero pulls back win from jaws of defeats.

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

      fyi yankee group is also a reputed company check wiki….and about Meego….yes it is unique swipe ui/ux which makes N9 refreshingly different from others but it is underneath Linux which opens up amazing possibilities and innovative “hacks” like recently released status bar hack using which user can update their status on facebook and twitter straight from  pull down status bar….super fast and cool isn’t it :)   so yes as far as innovation goes open ecosystem is more suitable.
      I am not saying that Nokia should only make linux based phones but I am asking Nokia to be like samsung and htc to make phones on both open and closed platforms and let customers decide instead of one single platform and that to not so popular!  

  • Prasenjit Bist

    i have a small request for Nokia, can u bring the lumia 800 with that amazing curved glass running windows phone dont kill that design i mean there sud be choice with existing 7./7.8 and a windows 8 i don’t care abt spec keep it same jst get windows phn 8… if u promise i am straight away sending my money book it for me ;)

    • http://twitter.com/DiscoverYellow Discoveryellow

      Looking at 808 design, I think Nokia is too keep the curves :)
      Lumia 900 having no curves is an odd “child” rather than where Nokia is heading. No worries.

  • http://twitter.com/DiscoverYellow Discoveryellow

    Exceeding expectation is a factor of surpassing the threshold, which is so low for Lumia that customers don’t expect much. And of course Lumia being the great product it is people just end up loving it.

  • steelicon

    This report just in.

  • http://www.davidar.org Jonathan Davidar

    I owned the Lumia for a period of 3 weeks before returning it to AT&T – I lost 36 dollars and paid for data used during the period but it was worth not being stuck with a nightmare. The screen was great but the hideous battery life (barely 8 hours of average use if you are lucky), feature lock with the service provider  (it has wifi tethering only if you pay AT&T the premium plan to unlock that feature), and the lack of Nokia Suite were dealbreakers. The camera too is lacklustre and performs poorly indoors and in evening light. Also, if you have used Maps & Drive on Symbian, this is nowhere as versatile or flexible. Even the maligned N97 Mini did a better job in terms of choosing the route and other such options.

    I was also visited by bugs such as the phone-call-receive feature hanging. And do you know how it was resolved? By completely resetting to factory defaults. You lose everything. Lucking I was able to back up contacts using an app that pushed it to my email account but from then on, it is a manual process. AT&T has an app that backs up content but then requires you to login to Windows Live to get back your content. And since I had forgotten the user name that I had used, I was told that I would not be able to get back my data. AT&T transferred me to Nokia, who then transferred me to Microsoft, who finally said that they could not restore that Live ID, given their security policies. 

    My old Nokia E62 would seamlessly sync all contacts and folders and data to my PC but this one with Microsoft Zune is useless.I must admit that the Marketplace is becoming more vibrant but the simple functionality, stability, and security that Symbian gave me are alien to the Lumia 900.It is a crying shame that you have choked the N9 and burnt the Symbian platform. You have launched the 808 Pureview in the US but are keeping it a secret. Why is it not a key feature on your US home page? Why does it still say “Coming Soon” when it is already being sold on Amazon.com.I do hope you officially sell the N9 in the US too. Your N9 is listed under business phones, it would be good if you provided it with an office app for starters and started believing in your products and developers.

    I hope it gets better but I am not optimistic given your misadventure down Suicide Gorge with Elop and his Microsoft buddies.

    • OhHei

      Hater.

    • Innoxius

      “And since I had forgotten the user name that I had used” 
      This is not a hater, but a looser. How in the name of God you forgotten a user name ? I understand to forgotten a password, but a user name ?

      • http://www.davidar.org Jonathan Davidar

        Your comment is distasteful and written in poor English. I don’t consider it worthwhile replying to your diatribe.

  • perecFX

    The result of survey shows nothing extraordinary and nothing special about product (here Lumia 900). Why? Because most of the people who give hundreds of dollars for a phone made the research and chosen device on the purpose, not just pick it in it from black box randomly. Of course most of customers will be happy with their choice. If you do the same survey for Nokia N9 users, Samsung Galaxy Nexus or Sony Xperia Ray or … whatever smartphone the result will be more less the same. 

  • Kadusch

    I have both, the Lumia 800 and the Nokia N9 and despite the missing camera button the N9 beats at all levels. Since the Lumia 900 is also only running Windows Phone I would say there is something wrong with this market anaysis.

    • r1james

      I bought a Nokia 808 Pureview and works perfect on FP1. much flexible than Lumia or N9. Hope to see soon Fp2 and more updates. Hope accenture is doing a great job!

      • Kadusch

        Yes, The Nokia 808 Pureview is a great phone and a superb camera. I had it for some minutes in my fingers and was impressed by the pictures it was able to take.
        I bought last year a Panasonic Lumix for 600€, if I had known about the Pureview at this time I would have spent the money for the Nokia 808. :-)

        But in the end I still prefer the Nokia N9 at which I’m able to connect via ssh to. With the built in Terminal it is my allround swiss army knife for work and for private use. Sadly without Pureview camera. But hopefully someone will create at some point a Nokia N9 like super smartphone with something like a Pureview Camera. I’m afraid it wouldn’t be a Nokia, had those for more than a decade, but since they are stopping to create Smartphones it is time to move on. Sadly. :-(

    • Tao Song

      It might be right, but it’s a vertical analysis, not a horizontal one compared with other products, e.g. N9, which could get even higher satisfaction. As for smartphone, I take sides in N9/MeeGo rather the half-baked WP7 OS.

  • Tao Song

    This survey is just a trivial advertising method. However, satisfactions do not mean popular. 

    The most convincing data, I think, comes from HOW MANY lumia were sold out since its release.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/5ZU36V3OBAX4CLIZAQZHYNTONQ soulja_irsh

    I will never recommend a NOKIA WINDOWS PHONE to anybody & if NOKIA will be making only WINDOWS PHONES “I QUIT BUYING NOKIA”

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/5ZU36V3OBAX4CLIZAQZHYNTONQ soulja_irsh

    I will never recommend a NOKIA WINDOWS PHONE to anybody & if NOKIA will be making only WINDOWS PHONES “I QUIT BUYING NOKIA”

  • Monika Brettschneiderová

    Do you think this fake-researches among 15 Lumia buyers will change something on WP’s 0.6% market share? What about to remove metro and stop making rude jokes of someone who you want to pay money for your products?

    • http://twitter.com/akchaudh akcme

      Where did you get that 15 Lumia buyers? Which market are you talking about (0.6% market share)?  Last time I checked, WP has much bigger market share than you quote. Are you mad at Nokia for something?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000838782009 Francis Yosores

    i had an difficulties in using lumia so i want the nokia to improve there menu type so that i can easy click what i wanted to….

  • http://twitter.com/DawidStawowy Dawid Stawowy

    Do Not Buy NOKIA with WP7 !! Bad camera, no front camera, poor battery, lack of top apps. I just sell my new Lumia 800 and buy Samsung Galaxy S2 and now I am happy to have a really good phone that really works. No more Nokia fan, sorry, I love Android ;)

    • steelicon

      Good that you vote with your wallet. I hope to see you someday soon with the Nokia 808 PureView. That is when they do have enough stocks and the price have gone down reasonably. I may be a NOKIA fan but I’m not blind to what they did to long time Symbian and MeeGo fans. Try the Nokia 808 PureView some time. You’ll love it!

    • 123321

       no front camera? >> nokia lumia 900 has one! ;P

    • daniel miranda

      u suck!!

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/YWUQ7MVRQGZOXJNJ2JHHL3FRYE Yolimar

       I  cannot share pics via bluetooth with my friends , i feel like I was a thief. andoid  here I come

  • http://www.facebook.com/oleksandr.golovatyi Oleksandr Golovatyi

    I wish Verizon has N900. Using my HTC winphone for now

  • http://kanujkumar.myopenid.com/ krish

    when is it gonna be launched in India. Nokia India directors aren’t took keen to realize the market demands. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/ShellieDicko Michelle Dickinson

    Any chance of a free nokia lumia 900 ??? Me mam always sais to me, @you dont no unless you ask ‘ :) hehe

  • http://twitter.com/muhmahmed Muhammad Ahmed

    It must have been before wp8 announcement….

  • chris_t610

    I absolutely agree. I have been using my Lumia 800 for nearly 2 months now and I am happy with the way it works with me. The  user interface is definitely a step off from the opposition.
     
    windows os is truly refreshing and the interface is very fluid with no lags whatsoever. Couple that with the Lumia 800′s fantastic design and you got yourself a competitive smartphone.

  • http://www.djsmobiles.com/ DJRipster

    I loved my Lumia 800 up until the point I head it wont be getting Windows Phone 8…

    THe new start screen is nice, but I prefer the OTA updates and the shared kernal…

    Cant we have the WP8 update for standing by Nokia and Windows Phone? 

    • 123321

       it is not possible to update hardware ;)
      anyway, i think wp7.8 is going to be great as well.

      • http://www.djsmobiles.com/ DJRipster

        But do you really think we wont have 1GHz Windows Phones with WP8.0 ?

        I dont think its a hardware issue, it will just be a complex software update and Microsoft doesnt want to bother with it…

        I will be happy with WP7.8 if they offer most WP8 features… But rumors suggest no OTA updates and that file management will continue through Zune.. which sucks…

        I want to upgrade to Windows 8, but I dnot want to be stuck with Zune if they are bringing XBox Music and a new WP managment client.

        • 123321

           I’m not an expert but wasn’t there a cernel-change or something? i think thats the problem why wp8 isn’t compatible with 7.5 devices. but i completely understand why you want wp8. … i wanted to buy a nokia lumia 900 for myself but then wp8 was announced and i decided to wait.

          • http://www.djsmobiles.com/ DJRipster

            Yes, You are right about the kernel change… Which is what would make updating from WP7.5 to WP8 hard… It wont be a straightforward update…But hey we have seen Windows Phone and Android flashed onto an old Windows Mobile… So it cant be impossible…From what I know it would be costly from MS to implement it, and there are only a few WP users, so they have decided not to… @nokia:twitter can correct me if I am wrong on this… :)I think you made a smart choice waiting for WP8 and not purchasing a Lumia 900… Its Ironic, that Nokia advertised that the smartphone beta test was over with the Lumia 900, but made everyone who purchased it the ultimate beta testers..Dont get me wrong, I love WP as an OS, but hate the fact that the fans who purchased their new devices will have to miss out on some great features… 

          • http://twitter.com/JudahMcA Judah McAlister

             WP8 isn’t even officially announced yet, and there are only rumored devices. So by the time your contract is over there should be a good hand full of devices with reviews to chose from. But if Microsoft really listens like they say. Us user could expect a 7.9 update. lol jk that would be stupid.
            But I do expect the devices to be announced in October and maybe one device released this year. So untill that phone drops, you’re the elitist.

          • http://www.djsmobiles.com/ DJRipster

            Hey Judah,

            WP8 has been announced… What we saw during the developer summit is probably all we will see before the devices start going out… and I expect devices to start arriving this October, unlike with Apple who has several months between iOS announcement and device release.

            Microsoft’s ‘the beta test is over’ campaign actually convinced me they will be updating my device for at least a year, and I never saw them switching platforms so soon. 

            Its kind of a done deal that WP7.x is dead. No developer would bother updating their apps for 7.x after WP8 is launched this fall, and why would they…All I hope is that someone will manage to port WP8 over to older devices 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1530606963 Henry Walker

    great phone would love to get my hand on the Batman version

  • http://profiles.google.com/rysliv ryan haz

    What is these percentages like up against the other highly popular phones?

    • http://www.facebook.com/anonymous6366 Isaac Gerke

      I would be curious to see that too. honestly everyone that i know that has wp loves it. many people i know with android say they have problems frequently, same with iphone but not as much. however i only know like 3 other people with wp and a ton of others with ios and android

  • Smity Smiter

    Lumia 800/900 is a stunning design, i hope there will be WP8 and other advanced iteration of the SAME DESIGN.. I’ll be waiting.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/2GKTQD7GZI42MFSWMEXXUIXGWI Yash

    When will the tango 7.8 update will be coming to INDIA ?? any idea ?? have been eagerly waiting to c the start screen on my lumia 800

    • http://www.djsmobiles.com/ DJRipster

      Should start rolling out in October… Since India is generally early on Nokia’s update list… I dont expect it to take too long…

      • http://profile.yahoo.com/2GKTQD7GZI42MFSWMEXXUIXGWI Yash

        wtf!! still 3 months to go…. :O am eagerly waiting for that update… :(
        hope to c the update more early than oct

  • http://www.facebook.com/manoj.mekap.7 Manoj Mekap

    Awesome phone, great design, truely a smart phone, practical with live tiles.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1079145478 Sailen Shrestha

    htc windows phone is best

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/YWUQ7MVRQGZOXJNJ2JHHL3FRYE Yolimar

    nice blue color, but I find it crazy that I cannot share pics and data with my friends and my computer via bluetooth I feel like a thief. I find it ofensive that my old LG phone, my motorola V3 can share data via bluetooth and I cannot do it with lumina. If you don´t change this in WP8 phone I will be running to buy a samsung phone