Nokia Lumia 900 is the Best Smartphone of CES 2012 says IGN (CNet too)
Znet, popscience, laptop mag, Cnet, cultofmac, many others and now also IGN.
In IGN’s best of CES 2012 award, the best smartphone category is won by….The Nokia Lumia 900. It’s quite an odd feeling getting so much unanimous praise for a Nokia device (and having continued for well over 6 months now since N9).
Again, it’s not merely the numbers on the paper but the overall experience of the phone that seems to be winning the Lumia these admirers.
IGN said:
Although it was never made available in the U.S. and lacked a front-facing camera, the Nokia Lumia 800 was one of our favorite devices of 2011. Now, Nokia has taken the design and increased the screen from 3.7-inches to 4.3-inches and adding a new front-facing camera. The device’s gorgeous Gorilla Glass display, 8MP Carl Zeiss lens and 1.4GHz processor. In other words, the Lumia 900 was the hottest phone at CES 2012.
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/01/17/best-of-ces-2012-awards-2
I’m not sure we shared what Cnet said so go check them out too:
Nokia, however, is changing that. From the moment you pick them up you can tell that the Lumia devices were designed with WP7 in mind. It was built to run Microsoft’s OS from the start, rather than being a device that Nokia just happened to throw WP7 in. When Nokia announced its Microsoft partnership last year I was hoping that would happen. Fortunately, the Lumia 900 shows that it has.
http://ces.cnet.com/8301-33370_1-57358141/congratulations-nokia-now-get-to-work/
Again, they’re all genuinely pleased with what the device delivers and what it has to offer. Real, concrete stuff users will care about. Not the numbers on the paper, but things that would make a difference in the use of that device.
But let’s not allow these praises to go to Nokia’s head, Nokia still has much work to do. Even though it’s more of a geek thing, we would also love to see Lumias competing on the specs to, if at least just to brag about it. Dual core, extra MPs. Though really they don’t matter in actual performance for Lumia (have you seen Nokia’s 3MP cameras at the time HTC cameras look like cave painting by foot??) it could sway consumers who think that more numbers means more value for money. I hope we see pushing of the envelope N95 stylie again. Here’s some great comments on how 900 could have been improved by you guys. http://mynokiablog.com/2012/01/13/what-would-you-have-changed-about-the-nokia-lumia-900/
Higher resolution cameras and screens? Keep up with the increasing standards for 2012. Gimme xenon on a Lumia as well please. If you’re going to give us 1080p recording please, not like the Galaxy Nexus which looks like I’m watching through Jello. Don’t compromise on design. It seems to be something people are paying attention to you for. High quality build and design, something that pretty much everyone except Apple brushes off to one side.
Cheers Jim and Irka for the tip!
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This is my favorite part:
“It was built to run Microsoft’s OS from the start, rather than being a device that Nokia just happened to throw WP7 in.”
So you mean it has a screen and 3 capacitive buttons? You mean it has precisely the internal hardware that Microsoft specifies for WP7 devices? You don’t say!
lol
I thought the design was built for N9 Meego Swipe?
The screen ain’t on curved glass anymore right?
No moreso than it was built for Android and iOS, I guess.
[MeeGoSymbian Trolling]
Well obviously IGN would say something like this because they are an American company, owned by another American company called News Corporation; which is owned by an Australian.
All in all, they are anti-Europe and anti-Finnish.
This domination of Google, Apple and Microsoft is really setting the world up to give in to the New World Order of operating systems.
Someone call Alex Jones
[/MeeGoSymbian Trolling]
Give me a break, take off your tin foil hat. (and go fuck yourself)
what they need is people buying their devices.
I’m curious about when the high end Lumias/WP-Devices will be available in europe/germany. Summer would be perfect as it’s the time of my finals and I could get one as a gift for the hard work to .. err .. myself
Marketing bonanza says I.
It’s not that hard to have the best device at CES if all of the competitors are waiting for the MWC to show up their new devices.
If Nokia will have the best of MWC, that would mean something
You’re absolutely right, MWC is the place to be, CES is not important at all.
If Nokia beats the new quad-core HTC and Sammie’s Galaxy SIII than Nokia is back on track, being the best of CES is something everybody has forgotten already.
Bollocks. The award itself is irrelevant, the free advertising, however, is a massive boost for Nokia. All the public will see is ‘best smartphone’.
The truth is, perhaps, not what you imagine it to be. Take a look at search and news reference volume for January 2012:
http://www.google.com/trends/?q=lumia+900&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2012-1&sort=0
The Lumia 900 spiked at CES both in terms of news references and user search and has since then declined rapidly. The launch at CES did not seem to have a substantial, lasting impact with consumers.
I suspect that interest will rise again once the product is in the market. How high it rises and whether it grows beyond that point, or flatlines as has been the case for the Lumia 800, remains to be seen.
what other phones premiered @ ces?
HTC Titan 2 and although not exaclty premiering, the Samsung Galaxy Note is now official for AT&T. I think Huawei (sorry if i spelled that wrong) also had some new devices, oh and the Lenovo K800 (running the new Intel Medfield processor) was announced for China.
Oh, and forgot, this is where the Lumia 800 also became official for Canada, and unlocked in the US through Microsoft stores.
So it really wasn’t that hard to archive for the Lumia 900. MWC will be more interesting
And that one Sony device as well, plus the Polaroid smart camera.
Rolling thunder in full swing.. good job
He is spot on about the size.. I can’t handle the new over 4 inch screen sizes, and my hands are not small. the N9/800 is the perfect size for me. Hoping for something similar for the 801
wrong article hahh
“From the moment you pick them up you can tell that the Lumia devices were designed with WP7 in mind.”
I find it funny that the media acts like Nokia N9 doesn’t exist. These Lumias are essentially N9s loaded with MeeGo. They were not built from the ground up for Windows.
The original design of the Nokia N9-00 is not what we’re seeing today. Check out the N950, that’s the real N9-00! So, the MeeGo device was just a testing bed for the design of the upcoming Lumia devices (800 and 900) to see if the media and the people are going to like it. You know they don’t want to make mistakes on their Windows Phone lineup.
”Now where’s my tinfoil hat?…”
I’m glad other people realise this.
When the head of MeeGo at Nokia left, and he said something along the lines of, “the design of the first MeeGo phone is near perfect”
Was he referring to the N950, or the N9?
Nokia had both the N9-00 & N950 designed and under testing way back in 2010. Even before Elop was made the CEO.. The plan was to release both of them in 2011. So how do people say that the MeeGo devices were test beds?
Talking about mistakes on the WP, they have already done it – battery issue on the 800.