Lumia 900 opens for pre-orders in US
If you want the latest byproduct of the Nokia-Microsoft partnership, head to a Microsoft Store and stake your claim for a Lumia 900 smartphone.
The Windows Phone-powered device is now available for pre-order, with a $25 deposit. The 900 is available exclusively with AT&T service and runs on the carrier's high-speed 4G LTE network.
The 900's brother, the Lumia 710, just launched in the US on T-Mobile. Nokia is hoping the price will draw customers in - it's only $100 with a two-year service agreement, and comes with a $50 mail-in rebate to make the final effective price just $50.
The 900's price hasn't actually been announced, though Microsoft Store employees are suggesting it will either be $150 or $200, putting it more in line with the standard smartphone price of the day.
What remains to be seen is how long it will take before a Nokia Windows Phone makes its way to Verizon or Sprint. Nokia is based in Europe, where the standard known as GSM (which is what powers AT&T and T-Mobile) is much more universal than CDMA (the Sprint and Verizon standard).
Very few manufacturers with strongholds in Europe like to play with Sprint and Verizon in the US, but if Nokia truly wants to make inroads in the US again this will be a necessity.
For now, though, it's sticking with the carriers it can work with most easily, so you can probably expect the next Nokia Windows Phone to be on AT&T or T-Mobile again before it hits one of the other two for the first time.
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Surveillance cameras were rolling as masked men broke into Sprint cell phone stores across Houston. At least three stores were hit early Tuesday morning. Scott Aronstein owns several Sprint stores in the Houston area. His store on Shephard and
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If you want the latest byproduct of the Nokia-Microsoft partnership, head to a Microsoft Store and stake your claim for a Lumia 900 smartphone. The Windows Phone-powered device is now available for pre-order, with a $25 deposit.
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Cameras catch thieves in cell phone stores | Cell Phone Plans
Surveillance cameras were rolling as masked men broke into Sprint cell phone stores across Houston. At least three stores were hit early Tuesday morning.
Scott Aronstein owns several Sprint stores in the Houston area. His store on Shephard and Westheimer was one of the latest targeted. After thieves busted in a window, surveillance video shows three masked men inside, searching for phones to steal. This time they got away with nothing, Aronstein says, because he locked up all the phones, accessories and displays in his safe.
It’s a lesson he learned the hard way when thieves hit two of his other stores a week earlier and stole merchandise from displays.
“I just think it’s despicable,” Aronstein said. “Really it wasn’t very surprising because it’s been happening quite a bit recently.”
At 290 and Hollister the thieves’ weapons of choice were sledgehammers to smash windows. There they got away with display phones. That crime was also caught on camera.
Aronstein believes the same band of thieves are responsible for the recent rash of Sprint store burglaries. He says in the videos the thieves arrive in a dark color SUV and work in groups of three or four.
Aronstein isn’t the only target. Two other Sprint stores, one on Westpark at Buffalo Speedway, and another owned by Dan Sheppard at Fuqua and I-45, were also hit Tuesday morning.
“It just seems that it’s happening so often that we got to stop it,” says Sheppard.
Thieves targeted five other of Sheppard’s Sprint stores in the last two months, and even two in the same day. Sheppard also locks everything away in safes bolted to the floor, but to his disgust it hasn’t stopped thieves from smashing the glass and searching for goods.
“I want to put a sign on the store saying ‘Dear morons, there’s nothing here. It’s locked up. Please go some place else.
I need a ride to the Sprint store my evo has finally gon into cardiac arrest there's no reviving this phone lol and the fusion been hit 
@ I'm bout to to the Sprint store now. Ima text you off Damia phone bc I'm bout to go her
@ Yummmm what kind of cookies? Just got back in from the Sprint store and have to go back in a about a hour to get my phone.
Gotta get my phone fixed fixed. Tired of it sliding back in the wrong way. Probably sprint store this weekend to solve the problem
@ girl that's just like that duck at the sprint store. I told him bitch I had a nigga when I played on u for a phone and now u