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Samsung Omnia II Hits Verizon Dec. 2 For $US200
10:58PM Danny Allen | I still don’t know why the Omnia II’s 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen is resistive, but the WinMo 6.5 phone will go head-to-head with Verizon’s own Moto Droid. Leaked docs suggest it’ll be $US200 on contract after $US100 mail-in rebate. More »
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All Samsung Omnia Phones Are Switching To WinMo 6.5
6:48PM Danny Allen | Windows Mobile 6.5 phones arrive on October 6, and joining them will be the new OmniaPRO B7330 (HSDPA, 320 x 320-pixel non-touchscreen). In fact, Samsung says that all Omnia phones will run WinMo 6.5 once it’s available. More »
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Samsung Gets In On The App Store Action
10:00PM Danny Allen | Samsung plans to roll-out an app store for its Omnia smartphones, and has signed on the likes of Electronic Arts, Gameloft, Capcom and TAITO to help it expand the 300 launch applications to 2000 by the end of the year. More »
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5:00AM John Herrman | A Symbian-injected followup the so-so Windows Mobile Omnia, the HD i8910 is a specced-out slab of phone from Samsung, with a 3.6-inch AMOLED screen, 8MP camera, HD video recording and a definite thing for multimedia. More »
Samsung Omnia HD I8910 Review
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3:27PM Nick Broughall | Like a shotgun in the face of dumbphone owners everywhere, Samsung has blasted its new Icon range of smartphones onto the Australian market. The highlight? The Android powered Galaxy. More »
Samsung’s Icon Phone Range Has An OS For Everybody (Except OS X)
3:27PM Nick Broughall | Like a shotgun in the face of dumbphone owners everywhere, Samsung has blasted its new Icon range of smartphones onto the Australian market. The highlight? The Android powered Galaxy. More »
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Ever Seen Crysis Played On A Mobile Phone?
1:00AM Adam Frucci | Crysis is the current standard bearer for PC game graphics. If your computer can run Crysis well, it’s a pretty impressive setup. So it’s pretty nuts to see Crysis running smoothly on a Samsung Omnia mobile phone. More »
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Rumour: Samsung ‘Omnia Pro’ Could Feature Full QWERTY, AMOLED Display
12:03PM Jack Loftus | Hello totally unconfirmed Samsung Omnia Pro phone. Good evening. Let’s say you are real, and more than ethereal rumour, and might actually take up physical space someday. You would probably have features like this: More »
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The Snazzy Samsung OmniaHD Morphs into Plain Jane Samsung i8910
11:20AM Erica Ho | The Samsung OmniaHD is losing its name and will now be known as its old, boring model number. It’s just like when Mother is mad and calls you by your real name instead of “sweetpea.” More »
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How Not To Make a Touchscreen Phone
10:44PM Jesus Diaz | Samsung’s slogan here in Barcelona is “The Power of Touch.” It should have been “The Power to Drive You Freakin’ Bonkers” because their touch technology continues to be bad bad bad. BAD.
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