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The Lumia 900: Nokia's first 4G LTE Windows Phone device

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announces the Lumia 900, Nokia's first 4G LTE Windows Phone, during a Nokia press conference at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Nokia is adding a third device to its Lumia family of smartphones — the Lumia 900. The gadget will be a 4G LTE device and it's coming to AT&T's network.

The Lumia 900 is a 4.3-inch device, which happens to look a great deal like the Lumia 800 — except obviously bigger, since the Lumia 800 is a puny 3.7-inch device.

(Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)

We're still waiting to hear more about the device's specs, but we've heard whispers it's got a 1.4GHz CPU and 512MB RAM.

Nokia is particularly proud of the Lumia 900's camera. The device offers a snazzy back-facing camera with Carl Zeiss optics (a F2.2 aperture lens with a 28mm focal length). This means that you'll wind up with sharper and clearer photos. Oh, and the front-facing camera is supposedly pretty darn great, too. Nokia hopes you'll use it — and its ability to handle extra wide shots — while video-conferencing using the device's built-in Tango app.

As far as using the device goes, well ... it's a Windows Phone experience with a handful of special Nokia touches such as the The ESPN and Nokia Drive apps.

No specific details about the Lumia 900's availability or pricing are available just yet.more information...

Source: http://gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com

Exclusive Insider Talk: Lenovo Racer-A hands-on with Stephen Miller

Here at CES 2012 during Showstoppers, we’ve been fortunate enough to get a personal interview with no less than Lenovo’s own Stephen Miller speaking all about the 1st IA platform smartphone based on the Intel Medfield chip, the Lenovo Racer-A SmartPhone. This device is part of the Idea Smart Phone K series and has a 4.5-inch 720p multi-touch display with fabulous viewing angles. This device is capable of playing back 1080p, 30 frames per second video – it’s also got a 720p wireless display, full 3D media center, and an 8M AF camera on the back. The processor is the real hero here as it is, believe it or not, a 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Medfield SoC.

This device will run Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread out of the box, WCDMA and HSPA+ connectivity, and LPDDR2 1GB + 32GB eMMC on the inside to keep you running quick and at the top of your game. The battery is 1890 mAh strong and will last the whole live-long day with the smartphone running a completely custom user interface over Android. This device is both light and relatively thin (or thick depending on who you’re talking to), and as you’ll notice – it’s got three Android capacitive buttons below the display.

This smartphone has five home screens and its user interface is very similar to what we’ve seen with the Lenovo Android dual-core tablets of 2011, but the launcher is Lenovo’s newest for smartphones specifically. Playing video at full resolution, you’ll be able to scrub or jump to any moment without lag. You can connect straight to your Lenovo Smart TV via Wi-fi, streaming video over your home network.

The camera is a dual-LED flash having 8 megapixels on the back with a 5 megapixel camera on the front – HD for both sides! The gallery application that comes with the device is unique in that it’s got a sort of 3D view to it, viewing images, zooming in and out with great ease and without a hitch. The ports on this device are thus: a microUSB port on the bottom right of the device, a 3.5mm headphone jack at the top, and that’s it. There’s also a speaker grille at the top along with the power/lock button, and the back of the device is removable along with the battery.

Dual-Hyperthreading is being used on this device, taking all the bits of a process and making them work as effectively as possible, and the battery does not get eaten up while you process. The Intel Medfield chip makes all of this possible. This device is made to be an everywhere device, booting up in a matter of seconds and with details that make it great for education, business, and the home. Inside the device you’ll also find a compass, gyroscope, and GPS.

This device is upgradable to Ice Cream Sandwich, mind you, plans in the works for an eventual upgrade inside 2012 – though the interface will likely remain quite similar to what it is right this minute. This device will be released inside the second half of 2012 in the China market. We’ll have a much closer look at this device later this year when its much closer to release time – seeya then!more information...

Source: http://www.slashgear.com

The Lumia 900: Nokia's first 4G LTE Windows Phone device

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announces the Lumia 900, Nokia's first 4G LTE Windows Phone, during a Nokia press conference at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas
Nokia is adding a third device to its Lumia family of smartphones — the Lumia 900. The gadget will be a 4G LTE device and it's coming to AT&T's network.

The Lumia 900 is a 4.3-inch device, which happens to look a great deal like the Lumia 800 — except obviously bigger, since the Lumia 800 is a puny 3.7-inch device.
(Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)
We're still waiting to hear more about the device's specs, but we've heard whispers it's got a 1.4GHz CPU and 512MB RAM.

Nokia is particularly proud of the Lumia 900's camera. The device offers a snazzy back-facing camera with Carl Zeiss optics (a F2.2 aperture lens with a 28mm focal length). This means that you'll wind up with sharper and clearer photos. Oh, and the front-facing camera is supposedly pretty darn great, too. Nokia hopes you'll use it — and its ability to handle extra wide shots — while video-conferencing using the device's built-in Tango app.

As far as using the device goes, well ... it's a Windows Phone experience with a handful of special Nokia touches such as the The ESPN and Nokia Drive apps.

No specific details about the Lumia 900's availability or pricing are available just yet.more information...

Source: http://gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com

Nikon D800 prematurely pictured

All eyes are on Nikon’s new D4 DSLR today, but Nikon Germany has also apparently spilled another incoming digital camera, with the first official image of the Nikon D800. Nothing more than a tiny thumbnail, and quickly pulled down, the image matches up with the last leak of the D800 from back in November 2011, and suggests Nikon is ramping up to launch a second new pro-DSLR imminently.

Nikon hurriedly removed the D800 from its line-up, but not before Nikon Rumors could grab a screenshot and blow it up to this pixelated giveaway. We don’t know any specs, of course, at least not officially, since there’s no sign of a premature product page.

Still, previous rumors have given us a little to go on. The D800 is expected to have three times the sensor resolution and a bigger display than the D700 it will replace, as well as 1080p/30/25/24 video recording and the same autofocus system as in the D3.

Impressive stuff, though having seen the Nikon D4 earlier we’re still all-aflutter at the flagship’s ISO 100 – 204,800 range and 91,000-pixel RGB 3D Color Matrix metering system. The $6k purchase price is going to put off a lot of would-be buyers, however, something the D800 should alleviate somewhat.more information...

Source: http://www.slashgear.com