Go To Latest Video ReviewsSamsung Upstages 3G iPhone Hours Before Launch
| Author | Gordon Kelly |
| Published | 9th Jun 2008 |
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TrustedReviews NewslettersHours before Apple's big WWDC keynote who would've guessed Samsung would do this...? Yep - everyone.
Still, much like the 'accidentally leaked' snaps of the touchscreen BlackBerry Thunder late Sunday evening, so Samsung has decided to push out its most credible next generation iPhone challenger to date: the 'i900', dubbed 'Omnia'.
Already spotted earlier this month the i900 lives up to its billing with a large (though not iPhone large) 3.2in haptic touch enabled touchscreen display, GPS, 7.2Mbit HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth A2DP and a choice of either 8GB or 16GB of internal storage. Backing this up are an advanced 5MP camera with autofocus, image stabilisation and geo-tagging and a snazzy reworking of the Windows Mobile 6.1 OS.
All the usual multimedia codec support is in there too along with the pleasant surprise of DivX and XviD combined with handset based video editing as Sammy goes for the jugular. A TV Out port, push email, accelerometer and FM tuner may also win it many hearts and minds unless Apple comes up with something spectacular (and heavily subsidised) tonight.
Whetting appetites the i900 was officially released in Samsung's native Korea today but while no formal European launch date was given a Q3 timeframe has been put on its head. Of course Samsung has been down this Cupertino-inspired route before with the glorious-on-paper-but-lacking-in-reality F490. Let's hope it has now learnt from those fairly culpable UI mistakes.
Just how well has it done? We'll know in four hours, 30 minutes and counting...
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gary gatter said on 9th June 2008
Johnny Boy said on 10th June 2008
I run product development for a cellular carrier, and I carry Windows Mobile. I also carry an iPhone, which I very much want to hate, because I don't work for AT&T. Sadl... more
baller86 said on 10th June 2008
garry gatter, isn't this Samsung a 5 megapixel camera?
gary gatter said on 10th June 2008
Sorry put my comment on the wrong comments page!!!! Think this is a great phone, would be even better with the android os.
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I like it, but it lacks so much, no forward facing cam, no vga screen, storage only 16gb, main cam only 2.0 megapixels. I wanted so much to get this phone, maybe I still will, depe... more