Nokia last night officially launched its Lumia 900 and 610 smartphones to the Australian market, following the pair’s global debut earlier this year.
The high-end Lumia 900 will be available in June for $699 outright, or from Optus on its $60 plan. The 900’s cheaper sister 610 will retail for $329 outright and via Vodafone in July, but is available through Boost Mobile from June.
Nokia has positioned the Lumia 610 as its most affordable in the range. The Windows Phone device runs the most recent version of Windows Phone 7.5 ‘Mango’, built specifically by Microsoft to run on lower-end hardware. It has a 3.7-inch 800x480 LCD screen, 256MB of RAM, and touts an MSM7x27 Qualcomm processor.
The higher-tier 900 boasts a larger screen than its Lumia 800 3.7in predecessor, at 4.3in, and runs on Windows Phone 7.5 with a 1.4 GHz processor, including 512 MB of RAM and 16GB internal memory. It echoes the Lumia 800’s 8 megapixel camera but adds on a front-facing 1.3 megapixel camera.
The Lumia 900 will be available in white, cyan, magenta and black. The Lumia 610 will be available in pink and blue.
Nokia has high hopes for the Lumia range, and the 900 specifically, after a difficult year which saw it suffer a net loss of €1.6 billion ($A2 billion) for the first quarter of the 2012 financial year.
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