Samsung is working hard to up the ante on mobile phone camera resolution. But forget digital cameras. With their 8MP Omnia HD (spotted yesterday), Samsung is going after camcorders.
After their dreadful Omnia, Samsung is following up with the Samsung Acme i8910, a smartphone that-according to these allegedly leaked pictures-seems to be quite slim. I comes loaded with a ton of features too:
Many of you asked for a re-do of Windows Mobile browser testing after our Battlemodo declared the platform beyond worthless for surfing. So here it is, the internet running on Windows Mobile’s finest hardware.
It’s been coming for what seems like a very long time, and now, thankfully, Samsung’s Omnia Windows Mobile smartphone has hit retail shelves in Australia.
It’s available through Vodafone’s $79 cap and Three’s $69 cap, for those of you looking for a non-Apple touchscreen smartphone. And considering that Samsung announced this phone on the same day that Apple launched the iPhone 3G, you can expect a few direct comparisons between the two handsets as reviews start hitting the Australian interwebs. Of course, if you can’t wait for that to happen, remember that Jesus had a hands on back in August and was not impressed. So hopefully it’s been tweaked a little since then, although it is running Windows Mobile – and we all know how hard it is to polish that…
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Phone Arena looks to have leaked a slew of upcoming Samsung phones, and they don’t look half bad. That budget-looking clamshell (Alltel, SCH-R600 Hue II) will feature removable covers and a 2MP camera, while the more premium-looking SGH-A777 is an AT&T slider with a modest 1.3MP camera. OK, now that we have those specs out of the way, onto the good stuff, among it three touchscreen phones that bare a striking resemblance to Sprint’s precious Instinct, bound for all three of Sprint’s nemeses.
If the BlackBerry Storm isn’t quite your beat, Verizon’s got a surprisingly sturdy brigade of other phones coming out next month, headlined by Samsung’s Omnia and HTC’s Touch Pro (sorry, XV6850—why won’t you just let HTC be, Verizon?). The Omnia’s keeping the same crappy UI, but it’ll be tarted up red, the way VZW likes it. The Touch Pro seems like it’ll be the same too—it’s even keeping Wi-Fi, a daring feat on Verizon. The other two phones are both Sammy—Saga, the CDMA version of the Epix, and the Renown, a global flip phone. [Phone Arena]
According to a rebate document that popped up on Howard Forums, the Samsung Omnia may be heading to the Verizon network sometime this year. The WinMo phone had previously been Europe and Asia only, but this supposed $US70 rebate (valid through November 15th), is the first possible evidence of US infiltration. The Omnia is Samsung’s big product they expect to compete with the iPhone and a launch in time for the holidays would seem to make sense. But we’ll see. [Howard Forums via Electronista]
newVideoPlayer("/samsungomnia_gizmodo.flv", 520, 410,""); I got to play for quite a long time with the Samsung Omnia, the iPhone-Killer wannabe with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, here at IFA 2008. The verdict: it’s not an iPhone killer, despite previous demos. In fact, it sucks. It has a poorly designed interface, lousy response time, buggy software, and it felt cheap and fat on my hand. I even thought that I was being even more thick than usual while trying it, but I got the Omnia expert lady to give it a marketdrone spin for me and her last sentence summarised it all: “Oh, naw it’z not verking at all. I think I haf too many tasks open. Sorry.”
