In the middle of the iPhone madness from the last few days, a little phone we have been keeping our eyes on suddenly slipped through the cracks with a spec announcement: The Samsung Omnia cellphone is now the real deal. And guess what? It’s a feature-packed bundle that seems to have taken the Windows Mobile platform and made it manageable and even kinda attractive.
Of course, the real truth will come out when we receive this one and put it through the review wringer. Let's look at the specs provided:
It includes a five-megapixel camera (with an image stabilizer, and face and smile detection), DivX, XviD, WMV and MP4 video compatibility, and GPS as well (ah-hah). Maybe more of the main GPS unit manufacturers will get on the mobile phone craze by lending out the software.
The display is not a stretch at this point, with only a 3.2” LCD. We’d been hoping for the first OLED coming out from this one. It also has video with six different types of audio capabilities, Bluetooth-, USB-, Wi-Fi- capable, and is microSDHC- compatible.
The unit will be available by the fall (at least), and should run close to the other high-end cell phones (over $500), unless Samsung figures out that that might be a little too expensive against the iPhone 3G and can start a massive subsidizing program to catch up.
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