The news came out today as it usually does, starting with the sun in the East and chasing it to the West. And by the time the day was done, Samsung unleashed four Windows Mobile phones of varying design, purpose and, likely, price point.
After the jump, we recap the Omnia II, Omnia Pro B7610, Omnia Pro B7320 and Omnia Lite.
The flagship of the refreshed Omnia line is the Omnia II, with what's being billed as the "world's 3.7-inch AMOLED display." We're not too sure how another 3.7-inch AMOLED display could be smaller, but we digress. The general consensus is that we'll see the Omnia II on Verizon. The specs:
This is the phone we first came to know as the Louvre. It has a four-row horizontal slider, a 5-megapixel camera, GPS, WiFi and another larger AMOLED screen. Microsoft Office Mobile is on board, and Samsung is touting Opera Mobile 9.5 as the built-in browser, but let's hope that gets upped to Opera Mobile 9.7 when it launches.
Ah, another "Pro" phone. Aside from the less-than-inspired name, the B7320 seems to take its cues from the Samsung Jack, which already has carrier support from AT&T in the United States. It's got a 3-megapixel camera, FM radio and WiFi.
The little brother of the bunch boasts a 3-megapixel camera, WiFi, aGPS and the TouchWiz interface that you've either come to love or loathe.
Comments
looks like a phone for every price range!
while att has the iphone, we'll not see the omnia 2 there, so verizon people are the luck ones in the usa.
the one missing phone/format from these four is the replacement for the epix device - qwerty-candybar with touch screen. anyone know the fate of the fairly recently announced such device?
The widgets are massive the weather icon uses 1/4 of the screen Samssung HAS to reduce the icons to the same size as the ones on SPB Mobile Shell 3.0 or let use reduce the size.
WE WANT SMALLER ICONS/WIDGETS NOW.
"Advanced R Touch (a sooped-up resistive touchscreen, apparently.)" - should be obvious. What do resistive digitizers need to operate? They need to be able to detect small deformations. What's a characteristic of AMOLED screens? They're flexible! No more does the digitizer have to sit on a hard glass LED (or intervening clear flexible pad.) This is a win-win both optically and mechanically. With this advance it's possible that resistive digitizers might gain the same sensitivity as capacitive digitizers, with the added advantage that resistive digitizers work much better with a stylus.
I first saw Samsung OLED technology at CES three years ago. It's great to see the technology finally hitting the mobile phone mainstream. Now if only Samsung would dump the proprietary jacks and add a 3.5mm audio jack!