The Nokia Lumia 900 review

The Nokia Lumia 900 has the weight of two technology behemoths and Windows Phone fans on its polycarbonate shoulders. Ars sees if the flagship smartphone can do them all proud.

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[Entegy]

Thanks for the review

Just one thing on the app bar buttons though: buttons with icons (such as seen in the Messages app for example) do rotate when the phone is in landscape. But for a text only button, how do you propose to rotate it? I can't see any other way that sign in button could be presented with text only and not get in the way of landscape.

One could say move the entire bar to the bottom of the screen, but then that goes against how the app bar works for everything else. Should that be changed when the overwhelming majority of app bar buttons are icon-only that do rotate?

 

[Entegy]

Some comments and possible corrections:

1. There is a tutorial for the Windows Phone. It's an app called Help+How-to, and it's baked in as of Mango. Yes, it should start at launch, or default as one of the front 8 tiles, but it is definitely there.

It's not on my handset. Maybe it's different on phones shipping with Mango or something, but I've never even heard of it.

It comes on all the Mango phones. It was also added to my Samsung Focus with the 8107 update, so Americans with older handsets probably haven't seen it yet.

Microsoft has also made it available as a separate download.

 

[Entegy]

What do you mean by Windows 8 doesn't have indexing?

And we're all aware of the "forcing" but as you noted, it leads to some other issues.