Samsung i900 Omnia announced; Ready to compete head to head with iPhone, HTC Diamond, others
By Dusan Belic on Monday, June 9th, 2008 at 1:58 AM PST In Announcements, Devices, Samsung, Windows Mobile
Samsung has officially announced its real iPhone killin’ device. Instinct is just not smart enough to compete with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’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.
oh my god .
so nice
the CPU is 624MHz Marvell
samsung is the best
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.
It’s going to be harder to select my next mobile.
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.
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!
I’m sorry, Windows Mobile is just so ugly
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
looking thru the spec, it does not support video streaming!
Believe me this is real slow device compared to iPhone. In our test lab we have this cell phone and I personally have iPhone. You can make out the difference. Also your fingers will have no pain when using the touch interface of the iPhone
iPhone Rules!!