According to the projections from industry watcher Paul Thurrott, who maintains the SuperSite for Windows blog, the Nokia Lumia 900 - Nokia’s much-expected flagship smartphone for Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system – will likely hit the US stores earlier than most industry observers are anticipating.
During the course of a recent video interview, Thurrott said that March 18 could possibly be the date for the US release of the Lumia 900 handset, which attracted a lot of attention at the Consumer Electronics Show
(CES) in Las Vegas this week.
About the Lumia 900, which will run on AT&T's high-speed LTE network, Microsoft’s chief executive Steve Ballmer said during his keynote speech that the company intends promoting the handset “heavily” in all the
2,400 AT&T stores in the country.
Earlier reports have already revealed that the Nokia Lumia 900 will apparently be a breakthrough device for Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform, and will feature a generous 4.3-inch AMOLED ClearBlack display; a
1.4-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor;, and 14.5 GB of built-in storage capacity.
In addition, the handset – which will be less than half-an-inch in thickness - will boast an 8-megapixel camera with a lens from German optics specialist Carl Zeiss, and also a front-facing camera to support video chats.
Quite like the other Windows Phone handsets, the Lumia 900 will also use Microsoft's Metro interface and Live Tiles for displaying, straight to the home screen, an array of services like real-time updates from social networks, e-mail, and messaging.