The Nokia Lumia 900: now at AT&T in the US for $49.99

Published by Jason Harris on July 15, 2012

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High-end design used to hit your wallet where it hurts. Not any more. As prestigious fashion designers team up with retail outlets to bring catwalk style at cost-conscious prices, we’re happy to announce that you can now pick up the Nokia Lumia 900 for just $49.99 on a two-year contract from AT&T in the US.

Pink Lumia 900This announcement comes just in time for the debut of the elegant Pink Lumia 900 and the start of back-to-school shopping for student smartphones

The Nokia Lumia 900 has received overwhelmingly positive reviews on consumer sites, and won awards at shows such as CES and – most recently – Microsoft’s TechEd. The iconic Nokia design, combined with the elegance, speed and utility of the Windows Phone operating system, set this phone apart.

If you’re new to the Lumia 900, the phone comes in four colors including pure white, matte black, stunning cyan and the perky new addition – pink.

The Lumia 900 supports AT&T’s ultra-fast LTE network, has a 4.3-inch ClearBlack AMOLED screen and sports an 8-megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss lens.

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Nokia works hard to bring you valuable extra apps and services that set the Lumia family apart from any other phones on the market.

You’ll get access to a host of free, Nokia-exclusive experiences such as:

  • Nokia Drive: Complete voice-guided, turn-by-turn GPS navigation;
  • ESPN Sports Hub: an amazing app that keeps you in the know about your favorite sports;
  • Nokia Play To: lets you display your photos and videos from your phone onto your TV;
  • The Dark Knight Rises: Nokia’s exclusive app for fans of The Dark Knight Rises movie;
  • 100th Day of School: Through our partnership with the Sesame Workshop, this app brings a read-aloud experience that any school-aged child would love.

The Nokia Lumia 900, priced at $49.99 on a 2-year agreement with AT&T, is an amazing phone and a stunning value.

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Comments

  • steelicon

    Not bad. Good luck, Windows Phone 7.x!

  • http://kjmackey.blogspot.com KjM

    You do know it’s available at Amazon for 1¢ – maybe only the black one, but still…it’s been like that for a while but recent stats don’t show the Lumia as being as attractive to the public as the awards might have suggested.

    Meanwhile my N9 and 808 PureView are both unique phones in their own way. The Nokia-exclusive experiences you list above don’t seem to have the same draw for Lumia.

  • xmanuel

    On Amazon it is free phone 1 cent. As it is not updated phone to wp8. I will advice Nokia directors that only flagship now is 808 PureView for Nokia. Lumia brand is almost not interest.

  • dliao

    One of consumer site is now saying

    “While the carrier has continued to support the device with new color variants and (admittedly late) firmware updates, we can’t wholeheartedly recommend you buy it now in light of Windows Phone 8′s impending arrival — the Lumia 900 will get Windows Phone 7.8, but it’s unclear how well that’ll hold up by the end of your contract.”

    So make sure u know what u r getting into.

  • http://twitter.com/OXVO Joseph, OXVO Design

    RIDICULOUS because NOKIA you know damn well everyone is pretty much on contract already so no one is really getting that $49.00 price. Whats the off contract price ? Still pretty frickin’ high for no damn good reason now that it can’t receive the Win8  full upgrade. STOP TRYING TO RAPE THE CELLPHONE CONSUMER FOR AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE we are well aware.

  • Javier Fernandez

    I’m very disappointed in Nokia, ATT, and MS. To announce an sell a phone that was dead months before release. I bought my Lumia 900 thinking this was a new phone just release, and Windows 8 was only a few months away, of course they have to upgrade it to WP8, I thought. I’m stuck on a two year contract on a phone that has no future. App developers do not care to target WP7.5 or 7.8 anymore. They will target WP8 only going forward, it costs too much to maintain lower than WP7.8 apps. Stay away from the trio(Nokia, MS, and ATT) if you can.

  • http://twitter.com/efjay01 Ef Jay

    So many ignorant posts, pretty sad.

    • EVVJSK

      Not sure it is ignorance. More like frustration. Nokia faithful have long tried to point out what they wanted to see from the company. Not sure they have seen it in the 900 or WP7x. Maybe WP8, but not sure there either.

  • http://twitter.com/alvarorutz Álvaro Rutz

    The phone was announced in Brazil, but so far only have the Lumia 710 and Lumia 800, hurry up Nokia!

  • Vikas Patidar

    Nothing for India yet?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Anurag-Max/100001071027100 Anurag Max

    what is this 
    two-year contract ???

  • theNewDanger

    I’d been using a Nokia Lumia 900 over AT&T’s network this past week to prospect on whether the future would include Windows Phone 8 for me. From my usage, which is ridiculously data heavy, I find that Windows Phone just doesn’t keep up with the rest of the world in terms of throughput. Microsoft meant it that when you get a Windows Phone, you’ll rarely need to touch it. That’s because you’ll be touching a different device to actually get things done, which is very un-Microsoft Windows-like. I find I am having the same sentiment with Windows 8 on the desktop Preview Release. There are just too many swipes to get things done that a more precise keyboard+mouse combination would solve (and has already been proven most efficient for the past 20 years!). But when it comes to Windows Phone, I found something even more impeding for myself that I suspected all along from when I first tested an HTC Arrive on Sprint in May 2011. Windows Phone is either artificially throttling data throughput within the operating system or it just plain sucks at transmitting data so much as the connected data network allows. Using the TestMyNet application, I’m finding that over cellular, data throughput is down to <1Mbps on HSPA+ in comparison to average speeds of 3-4 Mbps using a two year old iPhone 4 (no LTE AT&T in my area yet). But the issue gets even worse over WiFi, where data throughput is only 10% of what I get normally using my iPhone. My normal downlink over my iPhone using my home WiFi is usually 15-20 Mbps. I can barely stream Netflix using the Lumia over WiFi and I can't stream anything at all over cellular! I took the Lumia back today with this very complaint to the AT&T corporate kiosk at a mall where I got it. There were three people working there. The CSR who served me acknowledged this under-publicized phenomenon and each of the other CSRs heard and nodded in agreement and that they've all been using Lumias (as demanded by AT&T) and noticed the data throughput shorting them as well. I let them know it is an absolute kick in the nuts to people who can tell the difference and depend on strong data performance where network conditions allow and that I was sticking with Verizon for them not letting me know about this KNOWN problem before buying. It only took me three days from purchase to pissed off. Great job Nokia, Microsoft, and AT&T. iOS just became my de facto platform with Mac OS X being a heavy contender for my next desktop/laptop purchase, especially the direction Microsoft is taking Windows 8.

  • http://www.facebook.com/teropetteri.laine Tero Petteri Laine

    And still no one is buying it.

  • shreeshail naruni

    Cool phone i can’t take my hand off it

  • inwoodguy

    I have this phone (in cyan), and love it.

    I’m not quite sure what the other people who claim to have speed issues are doing, but on AT&T’s LTE network, I consistently get 10 to 30 megabit download and upload speeds, two days of battery life despite heavy use, and the phone has a brilliantly bright and readable screen.

    As for apps, it’s got over 100,000 of them, and Microsoft has already promoted cross-compatibility between WP7.X and WP8.  Most apps developed today and in the future will run on both platforms, just as developers continue to target earlier versions of iOS and Android on those platforms (for the large number of devices that don’t get upgrades to “the latest and greatest” on those sides of the house).

    At under $50 on contract for a high-end LTE handset, this is a no-brainer.