Samsung's i900 Omnia

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General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100

Size Dimensions 112 x 56.9 x 12.5 mm

Weight 127 g

Display Type TFT touchscreen, 65K colors

Size 240 x 400 pixels, 3.2 inches

- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate

- Handwriting recognition

Ringtones Type Polyphonic, MP3

Customization Download

Vibration Yes

Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall

Call records Practically unlimited

Card slot microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB

- 128 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM

- 624MHz Marvell PXA312 processor

- 8 GB/16 GB internal memory

Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps

HSCSD No

EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps

3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps

WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11b/g

Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP

Infrared port No

USB Yes, v2.0

Features OS Microsoft Window Mobile 6.1 Professional

Messaging SMS, EMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging

Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds

Games Yes + Java downloadable

Colors Silver

Camera 5 MP, 2592х1944 pixels, autofocus, image stabiliser, video, flash; secondary videocall camera

- Built-in GPS receiver

- Java MIDP 2.0

- FM Radio with RDS

- MSOffice document viewer

- MP3/AAC/AAC+/WMA/OGG/AMR player

- DivX/XviD/WMV/MP4 player

- TV Out

- Voice memo

- Built-in handsfree

Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1440 mAh

Stand-by, up to 500 hours

Talk time, up to 5.8 hours

Looks like a really nice phone. I'm probably going to buy this or the iphone. Does anyone know when it's getting released in the US (or for that matter, in Europe)?

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I want it also. I think it's already available on ebay. Atleast people are selling them. Expensive though, about 800 USD+ from what I'm seeing. It will come down, I hope.

It's a very good phone, check gsmarena.com, it's in a head-to-head comparison with the HTC Diamond.

Yo, how do you know it is being released this Friday? Online or Retail?

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darkmanx21

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Heard this phone is coming to AT&T in September..but they are going to cripple it, 2MP, no GPS...why? Why on Earth would AT&T do this? Cause they are probably obligated by Apple somehow. Sucks. Have to figure out a way to get it from overseas without spending a grand.

Anyone use a N82 by chance? I hear it's a fantatic phone..just in case someone recommends the iPhone, I can't. I'm on T-Mobile. Sucks. Again. Hahaha!

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I haven?t heard anything about AT&T crippling it. That would suck big time!

I'm on the fence about getting one of these or an iPhone. The Omnia definitely beats the iPhone in features hands down, but I?ve heard the iPhone has a much cleaner interface then Windows Mobile and is a lot easier to use. I think the price of the Omnia will be my deciding factor.

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I had read it yesterday on some site I ended up on after reading pages of forums. Hmm..sounds familiar. LOL. Anywys, I started reading at Phonearena or whatever.

I'm on the fence also, but this phone is retardedly amazing, and I hear it runs circle around the iPhone from my friend in Singapore (he has both). He says it's camera, features, and interface are all very good, not as nice as the Apple UI, but not "really that much worse." They have toned down the sorry Windows UI with their own themes that are very touch friendly he says. The only thing, one phone is subsidized the other, well..none at all. GPS works like a charm (has A-GPS, also) and it can do a bunch of different keyboard layouts, Qwerty, T9..etc.

I'll buy it if I can find it, but I don't want to spend a G.

Looking at the N82 also. Hearing it's also a beast, just waiting on some emails to come back.

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^^ Because they technically are! They we're created in order to compete against the iphone, that's why these phones are so important for CMDA services like verizon and Sprint(in the US), or else a lot of their subscribers would go flocking to ATT due to the "iphonemania".

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There's a nice review of this phone here. It mentions that it only supports UMTS/HSDPA at 2100 MHz and therefore can't be used to it's full extent in the US, however other sites have 850/1900/2100 MHz and, therefore, can be used just fine in the US. Anyone know which one is correct?

Also, strangely, Samsung has removed the information they had for the i900 on their site(specs, demos, pictures). :blink:

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Actually for those of us that are very excited about the US release...you would know that the i900 will not exactly be the model number. Over at howardforum, boygenious, and other forums, the guess is that it actually will be the i907 or i908. It will have gsm/edge/hspda/gps/wifi. It will also have the 5mp camera.

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