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CES: Nokia's New Windows Phone Has a Front-Facing Camera

Nokia on Monday unveiled a new Windows Phone that will be coming to AT&T's U.S. network this spring. While it shares the slick industrial design of Nokia's other two Windows Phone entries, it includes one key additional feature: a front-facing camera.

The Nokia Lumia 900, announced at the Consumer Electronics Show, will have a 1-megapixel front-facing camera for video chats.

The main knock on Nokia's previous two phones, the Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710, was that the devices only had rear-facing cameras. With Microsoft's massive recent investments in Skype and Lync, making Windows-based phones without a video chat camera seemed an odd design choice.

Like the Windows Phone-based HTC Titan II announced earlier on Monday, the Lumia 900 is designed for AT&T's 4G LTE network.

Other features of the Lumia 900 include a 4.3-inch AMOLED screen, an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera with a Carl Zeiss wide-angle lens and a 1.4 GHz Snapdragon processor. Color choices are cyan and black.


Lumia 900

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Posted by Scott Bekker on January 09, 2012 at 4:29 PM


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Reader Comments

Fri, Feb 10, 2012 Stephen Townsley United Kingdom

Nokia's first windows phones are a version 1 affair. Android and Iphone have already stolen the thunder. These phones need key features and lower prices to give them an edge. I like the look of the Windows phone BUT no forward camera for skype is a downgrade and most android phones have superior feature sets.

Thu, Jan 12, 2012 Thomas

I have been waiting patiently for updated Windows Phones to upgrade to from my Samsung Focus. Nokia has created great phones in the past but most have been pricey and seldom subsidized by carriers which has limited acceptance in the U.S. However, the big detractor for Windows Phones is the memory. After the Windows Phone launch fiasco regarding micro SD slots and their usage, recent Windows Phones have paltry memories and no micro SD slots. I am talking specifically about the Samsung Focus S and HTC Titan. Since the Focus S is a Galaxy S II phone, that means Samsung actually removed the memory slot that is present in that phone. Considering Microsoft wants the public to replace their MP3 player with a Windows Phone, how can you do it with a phone with 16GB of memory or less. iPhones are up to 64GB.

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