Nokia Lumia 800 Coming To The US Next Year Courtesy Of AT&T

                        AT&T has announced that it’s discussing a deal with Nokia over the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango-powered Lumia 800 and Lumia 710. According to Glenn Lurie, the carrier is cautiously evaluating its marketing strategies and on what it would be wise to spend the money so it seems like Nokia is a big opportunity for AT&T.

The head of AT&T tablet division explained that the carrier’s goal is to remain the biggest Windows Phone 7 seller in the United States as it has a huge advantage over Verizon. WP7 devices don’t support CDMA networks for the moment therefore Sprint and the Big Red cannot offer such a device. Things will change next year with the Tango update which should bring the necessary features, but AT&T feels that it needs to make a move right now.

                          Even though the mobile operator already offers several Windows Phone 7 devices including the HTC HD7S, Samsung Focus S, Samsung Focus Flash, and soon enough the HTC Titan. AT&T is shaping up quite a strong lineup along with the HTC Vivid and the Samsung Galaxy S II 4G LTE in order to compete against the biggest carrier in the US, Verizon.

 

                 The problem is that AT&T and Nokia will not be able to conclude a deal before the end of the year, meaning that the Nokia Lumia 800 release date in the US is early 2012. It will be hard for Nokia and Microsoft compete against Google and Apple, as the former has a 52% smartphone market share thanks to Android. Even though Symbian is still number 2 (worldwide) before iOS, Nokia’s operating system is going down and it doesn’t look like it will go back up.

                   Android is dominating the smartphone business like no other company has ever done it as more than 550,000 devices are activated on a daily basis. According to Google, more than 200 million devices running on Android have been activated so far and sales are expected to increase with the launch of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is expected to become available in the following hours and most analysts predict that millions of units will be sold by the end of 2011.

                      The Nokia Lumia 800 features a 1.4GHz Snapdragon processor, 3.7-inch ClearBlack AMOLED 800 x 480 touchscreen, 8-megapixel camera on the back with LED flash, Windows Phone 7.5 Mango OS, 512MB ROM, 512MB RAM, built-in 16GB memory, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, and a pillow-shaped design that we’ve previously seen in the MeeGo-powered N9.