Kogan Announces Australia’s First (Two) Android Phones

Gizmodo Australia: We knew it was coming, we just didn’t know anything about it. Well now we do: Australia’s first Android phone (and one of the first in the world) is called the Kogan Agora. A second handset that will launch at the same time goes by the self-explanatory moniker, Agora Pro. Both handsets are available to order now for $299 and $399 respectively, although they won’t ship until January 29 2009 to both Australian and international customers.

Spec-wise, there’s a 2.5-inch touchscreen LCD sitting right above a full-qwerty keyboard. It’s a tri-band HSDPA handset (running on the 850, 1900 and 2100 bands, so fine for NextG) and quadband GSM phone, measures in at 108 mm x 64 mm x 14.8 mm and weighs 130 grams. Inside there’s a 624MHz processor (not sure who from), 256MB ROM and 128MB RAM. There’s a MicroSD slot, Bluetooth 2.0 and all the Android apps we’ve been reading about from the US coverage of the G1.