Samsung i900 Omnia announced; Ready to compete head to head with iPhone, HTC Diamond, others

Posted by Dusan on Monday, June 9th, 2008 at 1:58 am under Samsung, Windows Mobile, Devices, Announcements

Samsung i900 OmniaSamsung has officially announced its real iPhone killin’ device. Instinct is just not smart enough to compete with Apple’s handset, but the 12.5mm-thick i900 certainly is. Let’s quickly go through specs, shall we:

  • Network: quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE + HSDPA 7.2Mbps
  • Wireless: stereo Bluetooth (A2DP), WiFi
  • Display: 3.2-inch WQVGA (240×400 pixels) touchscreen
  • Camera: 5 megapixels with auto-focus, featuring face and smile detection as well as auto-panorama shots
  • OS/UI: Windows Mobile 6.1 with Samsung’s widget-friendly TouchWiz user interface running on top of it
  • CPU: Marvell 624MHz (*update*)
  • Other: built-in GPS, accelerometer for auto-rotation, optical mouse
  • Two models will be sold: 8GB and 16GB, that can further be expanded with microSD memory cards
  • Availability: from June 2008, Europe - July 2008

And that’s it! Boy do we want one. The only problem I see is that WQVGA screen which may find hard time competing with the Diamond’s VGA and/or XPERIA’s WVGA, though, that’s not actually a problem.

Finally, those of you attending the CommunicAsia expo in Singapore from June 17 to 20, will be amongst the first ones to try out Samsung’s new baby. In the meantime, hop over to GSMArena for some real-life shots.


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    • 8 Responses to “Samsung i900 Omnia announced; Ready to compete head to head with iPhone, HTC Diamond, others”

    • a says:
      June 9th, 2008 at 2:14 am

      oh my god .

      so nice

      the CPU is 624MHz Marvell

      samsung is the best

    • sam says:
      June 9th, 2008 at 4:31 am

      I like it, but no one can compete with Apples MultiTouch interface.

      This is a sexy phone but I think I’m going to hopefully stick with the BlackBerry Thunder or the LG Dare.

    • ghime says:
      June 9th, 2008 at 7:06 am

      It’s going to be harder to select my next mobile.

    • sam says:
      June 9th, 2008 at 8:09 am

      I know what you mean. I’m due for an update is August with Verizon and they already have the BlackBerry Thunder and the LG Dare as exclusives.

      I’m stuck between this, Thunder, Dare, 3G iPhone and Instinct.

    • Samsung Omnia says:
      June 9th, 2008 at 8:45 am

      This phone looks sick. Is this going to be released in the USA or are we stuck with only the Instinct? Not that its a bad phone.

      I saw http://samsungomnia.org but only read that it will be available in Asia and Europe and nothing about USA. The Instinct comes out on June 20th I think so I want to know before I buy that cause I’d rather have the Omnia!

    • Zak says:
      June 9th, 2008 at 11:29 am

      I’m sorry, Windows Mobile is just so ugly

    • Nate says:
      June 18th, 2008 at 11:16 am

      It uses opera mini as a browser. Mid June in Southeast Asia. July in Europe(August in Germany). August for rest of the world. Source : Samsung info in ComunicAsia 2008

      Pics here:
      http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i900_omnia_announced_live_pics_inside-news-519.php

    • Lee says:
      August 16th, 2008 at 4:27 am

      looking thru the spec, it does not support video streaming!

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