Original URL: http://www.reghardware.com/2008/09/05/samsung_parades_omni_3g/
Samsung parades Omnia 3G smartphone
Last night, at a lavish event in London, Samsung proudly paraded its brand new 3G Windows Mobile 6.1-based touchscreen handset, the SGH-i900 -aka Omnia.
The Omnia was first seen back in April [1] at a European trade fair, but it hasn't been known exactly when Samsung would make its frontal assault on the iPhone available in the UK, despite officially unveiling [2] it to the world in June.
Samsung's Omnia: 3G iPhone rival
Based around a 3.2in, 240 x 400 display, the Omnia also packs in a GPSpick-up, FM radio, A2DP wireless stereo, Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi and a choice of either 8GB or 16GB on-board storage. Users can up that capacity with Micro SDHC cards.
The handset has quad-band GSM/GPRS/Edge connectivity plus 3G HSDPA for data downloads of up to 7.2Mb/s.
On the back is a five-megapixel camera with image stabilisation, autofocus, and photography flavours of the month face and smile detection.
Full pricing details weren't provided, but the eagerly-awaited handset is officially on sale from today on all UK networks including Vodafone, O2, Virgin Mobile, 3 and T-Mobile. According to Samsung, a 16GB version is available exclusively on Orange for a limited period of time.
Whether the 16GB variant will then become available on other networks is as yet unclear.