Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 launched by Nokia

New Delhi, Nov 14 (TruthDive): The mobile phone giant Nokia announced the launch much-awaited Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710 on Monday.

Mr. D. Shivakumar, Managing Director, Nokia India, said, “Over the past few months, we have been gearing up the ecosystem for the Nokia Lumia family in India and today we have in place strong operator partnerships, an all-new retail look and a ready developer ecosystem delivering rich content to make the Nokia Lumia experience a truly amazing one for Indian consumers.”

Also present at the launch, Mr. Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, Microsoft India, said, “The Nokia Lumia devices are a powerful combination of Microsoft and Nokia’s core assets and deliver new experiences through the integration of service assets across location, search, entertainment, social, advertising and commerce.”

These two phones run on Microsoft’s updated Windows Phone Mango OS also known as Windows Phone 7.5. It has been confirmed that these two smart phones will be available in the country by mid-December. Sadly though, these handsets are priced heftily with the Lumia 800 said to be priced at Rs 29,000, while the 710 is believed to cost Rs 19,000.

The Nokia Lumia 800 looks very similar to its N9 handset. It features a 3.7 inch AMOLED Clear Black curved display and is powered by a 1.4 GHz processor with hardware acceleration and a graphics processor.

The Nokia Lumia 800 contains an 8 MP instant-share camera with Carl Zeiss optics, HD video playback, 16GB of internal user memory and 25GB of free Sky Drive storage for storing images and music. The handset also has a 3D graphics hardware accelerator, which should handle games pretty easily.

The Lumia 710, however, is a silent killer with a very simplistic design, reminiscent of the current lot of Symbian Belle handsets. The handset features a relatively smaller 5 MP camera sensor (capable of 720p video recording), while the processor and the graphics accelerators are exactly the same as the 800. The Nokia 710 will come with 4 interchangeable back panels dressed up in White, Black, Fuchsia, and Cyan colors. The Lumia 710 comes with only 8 GB of built-in storage with no card slot like its sibling. The Lumia 710 also comes with 25 GB of free Sky Drive storage.