The Nokia Lumia 900 is now available for pre-orders from Microsoft’s retail stores. For those looking to be one of the first to rock Nokia’s upcoming Windows Phone-powered flagship, a $25 deposit will let you reserve a black or cyan blue Lumia 900, which you’ll get whenever they decide to ship the phone. Final pricing and release dates haven’t been given out for the Lumia 900, but we might have a clue that we’re in for a good deal though. A previous leak mentioned that AT&T will be aggressively priced, possibly going as low as $100 with a contract when it launches in March.
After Nokia unveiled their Windows Phone-based Lumia phones at Nokia World, Microsoft also gave a preview of the things you can do with a Windows Phone 7.5 device and an Xbox console. First off, a rather predictable smartphone remote function that’ll let you control the Xbox console’s video functions using your phone, letting you browse movies and movie info on the phone while something’s playing on the console, or as a plain remote that connects via Wi-fi.
Here’s a good deal that you might want to look into: Microsoft is giving away free Windows Phones after you spend $499 or more at their stores. The catch? None. Unless you consider getting a relatively old, first-gen WP7-running smartphone for free without a contract a “downside.” Otherwise, the deal sounds awesome if you’re planning on buying a new laptop or desktop PC anyway.
Hey look, cheap smartphones! Three smartphones running on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform, to be exact. And when we say “cheap,” we mean “as cheap as you can get without technically being free.” Microsoft just dropped the price of three WP7 handsets from three US carriers, offering the Verizon HTC Trophy , Sprint’s HTC Arrive, and the HTC HD7 from T-Mobile for just a penny each. The catch? You have to sign up for a new 2-year contract with a smartphone data plan, the same thing you have to do on any other smartphone purchase anyway, but without having to fork over $200.
An ad campaign that pushes you towards buying a new product? The concept’s not that original. But the delivery’s certainly unconventional. Microsoft’s new ad campaign takes its aim at people who usually cling to their old, outdated PCs because… well, they still work. But since hardware and software companies don’t get anything if you don’t buy a new one (except for the satisfaction of delivering a product that lasted that long), they’d like you to check out all the cool new things modern computers bring to the table. In this first ad, they’re targeting “Julie,” who apparently hasn’t seen an iMac before. She never thought of buying a new PC because computers didn’t look like they were getting better. So what did Microsoft do? Oddly enough, instead of just giving this lady a spanking new PC, they set up a damn store inside her living room so they can sell her one. [video after the break]
