Omnia

Software

Swype Vs QWERTY: FIGHT!!!!!

1:53AM November 25, 2009 | Mark Wilson

QWERTY is pretty much the king of smartphone text input. But there’s a new challenger on the horizon. It’s called Swype, it works with one-hand input and, yeah, it is pretty fast. More »


Mobile

Samsung Omnia II Hits Verizon Dec. 2 For $US200

10:58PM November 20, 2009 | 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 »


Mobile

All Samsung Omnia Phones Are Switching To WinMo 6.5

6:48PM September 17, 2009 | 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 »


Software

Samsung Gets In On The App Store Action

10:00PM August 31, 2009 | 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 »


Mobile

Samsung Omnia HD I8910 Review

5:00AM August 24, 2009 | 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 »


Gaming

Samsung’s Icon Phone Range Has An OS For Everybody (Except OS X)

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3:27PM August 21, 2009 | 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 »


Gaming

Ever Seen Crysis Played On A Mobile Phone?

1:00AM June 24, 2009 | 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 »


Mobile

Rumour: Samsung ‘Omnia Pro’ Could Feature Full QWERTY, AMOLED Display

12:03PM April 27, 2009 | 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:

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Mobile

The Snazzy Samsung OmniaHD Morphs into Plain Jane Samsung i8910

11:20AM April 9, 2009 | 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.”

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Mobile

How Not To Make a Touchscreen Phone

10:44PM February 17, 2009 | 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.