Microsoft Takes Closer Look at New Nokia Windows Phones: Lumia 800 and Lumia 710

Microsoft’s best bet of curbing the dominance of rivals on the mobile platform market has the Nokia partnership and the resulting Windows Phone devices at its core.

Earlier today, the first two Nokia Windows Phone smartphones have been unveiled to the world, and Microsoft’s Ben Rudolph took at closer look at the new products, as you’ll be able to see in the images included at the bottom of this article.

I’m sure that by now you have stumbled across the official pictures of Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 released from Nokia World 2012, but it’s always worth to get a glimpse at how the devices look when they’re not shot by a professional photographer.

Available in three flavors, black, magenta and cyan, the Lumia 800 sports a unibody polycarbonate chassis and a 3.7” “ClearBlack” display.

This handset is powered by a 1.4Ghz processor, features a dedicated GPU, and offers users 16GB of storage out of the box. Nokia revealed that the price of Lumia 800 is approximately 420 Euros ($580), but customers will need to pay taxes on top of that.

Lumia 710 packs the same CPU and storage as its bigger brother Lumia 800, and will cost at least 270 Euros ($375) – again, this is the price tag excluding taxes.

European users will be privileged in terms of getting both Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 this year, with those in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK getting it first. Markets such as Russia, Taiwan, India, Hong Kong and Singapore are next on Nokia’s list of priorities, with consumers in additional countries getting the products in the first half of 2012.

It’s certainly interesting to see the pillars of the Microsoft and Nokia partnership as highlighted by Rudolph:

“Our innovation is complementary: To make a product truly “wow-worthy”, you need to build software to work perfectly with hardware, and hardware to work perfectly with software.

Together, we’re bringing customers more of a good thing: (…) you can customize your experience exactly how you’d like it.

A beautiful OS deserves a beautiful phone: You’ll know exactly what I mean when you pick one up for the first time.

We’re making the ecosystem broader, deeper and stronger: We’re working together to build the Windows Phone ecosystem at every level.”