If you’ve been holding your breath, waiting for the Lumia 800 to launch in the US, then you may want to exhale. It appears that Nokia may skip the 800 altogether, and introduce the US to the Microsoft/Nokia partnership with the Lumia 900. The phone is basically a larger Lumia 800 with LTE thrown in. The Windows Phone flagship is said to launch on AT&T under the moniker Nokia Ace.
The Ace will, like its little brother, sport a 1.4GHz single-core Qualcomm CPU, 512MB of RAM, and an 8MP camera. The only differences are that its display will get super-sized to 4.3 inches (from the 3.7 inches of the Lumia 800), and it will pack an LTE radio. Of course the larger screen and LTE card will add a little weight, 160 grams to the Lumia 800′s 142 grams. Like the 800, the Ace will probably run Windows Phone 7.5 Mango.
Windows Phone is in dire need of a flagship device in the US, and the perfect candidate, the Lumia 800, has been available on the other side of the Atlantic for the last couple of months. If Nokia and Microsoft have been waiting to introduce a larger version with LTE, then the withholding of the beautiful handset from the states makes more sense.
The Ace would be expected to launch within the next couple of months. This would be a welcomed change from the previous rumor, that the Nokia/Windows Phone consortium was launching in the US with the mid-grade Lumia 710. If the Lumia 900 (Ace) releases at around the same time, then the company can better take advantage of the Halo Effect, to use a higher-end phone’s appeal to also draw customers to their low-end devices.
* Note that the above image is an imaginary interpretation of the Ace next to the Lumia 800. No marketing materials have leaked.
via Pocketnow
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