Omnia, competition for iPhone from Samsung

rickyrecaro · #1 (**permalink**) 06-09-2008, 05:32 PM

Samsung Electronics South Korea released on early Monday preview details on the company’s new smartphone, before the mania of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference begins in California. The Samsung Omnia (SGH-i900) is similar in looks and function to the Samsung Instinct (SPH-M800), but with a few more bells and whistles. For starters, it sounds like it has a very promising camera. With five megapixels and anti-shake technology, this may be the first camera on a phone that produces pictures you would actual think of printing, not just posting to Facebook. This is an improvement over the 2-megapixel cameras on both the first-generation iPhone and on the Samsung Instinct.

The touch-screen smartphone, which runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 and features Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Opera 9.5 as its Web browser, will also have Wi-Fi. That’s something the Instinct also lacks. Like the Instinct, the Omnia has visual voice mail, 3G capability, Bluetooth, an FM radio, and GPS functionality. The smartphone, of course, also doubles as a music player and, with 16GB, will be able to hold up to 4,000 songs or 100 minutes of video, according to Samsung. More details on the smartphone’s specs will follow when the Omnia (SGH-i900) is officially unveiled on June 17 at Communicasia, the 2008 Singapore Expo. The Omnia (SGH-i900) will become available in Southeast Asia first and then be launched to other markets over the second half of 2008, according to Samsung.

rickyrecaro · #2 (**permalink**) 06-09-2008, 05:34 PM

hope this wasnt posted already

crash383 · #3 (**permalink**) 06-09-2008, 05:45 PM

Sexy... I will cross my fingers for a CDMA version.

sputnikkk · #4 (**permalink**) 06-09-2008, 05:51 PM

Nice Lookin Device - i'd hit it ... with my wallet

sputnikkk · #5 (**permalink**) 06-09-2008, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by crash383

Sexy... I will cross my fingers for a CDMA version.

From an online article

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Omnia will be quad-band and operate at 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz. It will run on both WCDMA and DSM. It supports 7.2 Mbps per second HSDPA, or 3G, and EDGE data networking Samsung added that the Omnia will be available in 8 GB and 16 GB versions and support a range of multimedia, such as video standards like DivX, XviD, H.263, H.264, Windows Media Video and MP4. It will offer a music player that can hold roughly 4,000 songs in the 16 GB version. It will feature a 5 megapixel camera auto-focus with anti-shake technology and face and smile detection, compared to iPhone's 2 megapixel camera. The Omnia will feature other tools like GPS and Bluetooth compatibility.

**syanni85** · #6 (**permalink**) 06-09-2008, 06:26 PM

wow, not bad samsung! this looks like an iphone killer... even has a similar look... we'll see what turns out.

bullet317 · #7 (**permalink**) 06-09-2008, 07:15 PM

It's running WM 6.1...It can't be all that bad. At least we can still use all the software out there that the Iphone doesn't have. Hope it lets me use WIFIrouter.