Samsung Omnia gets previewed in final form

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Samsung Omnia gets previewed in final form

by Chris Ziegler posted Jul 25th 2008 at 11:56AM

Arne over at the::unwired has his hands all up on the production version of Samsung's touchtastic Omnia i900, and yeah, it's pretty much official: the Touch Diamond has a solid competitor on its hands. The skinning Sammy's managed to perform here atop Windows Mobile's ancient UI might not be quite on part with the magic that is TouchFLO 3D, but it looks pretty close -- it's still better by leaps and bounds by the default, the transitions are kinda cool, and you're certainly going to want to use it if you're using this phone. Like the GSM version of the Touch Diamond, the Omnia sadly lacks any whiff of North American 3G (for the moment, anyhow), so this video is the closest many otherwise-interested yanks and canucks are going to get.

Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

Tags: i900, omnia, samsung, windows mobile, windows mobile 6.1, WindowsMobile, WindowsMobile6.1, winmo, wm6.1

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Riley Freeman @ Jul 25th 2008 12:06PM

im going to stick to htc. i dont see this coming to cdma. then again when telus launches there gsm network maybe ill give it a look

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Frankie @ Jul 25th 2008 2:52PM

This is the best f*****g phone ever to be released, EVER!

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SuperSexyErik (^_^) @ Jul 25th 2008 3:47PM

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This is the best f*****g phone ever to be released, EVER!

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Ricky G @ Jul 25th 2008 3:11PM

Yeah, would be nice if a decent phone went to Verizon. I mean the Dare is sick, but we never get any legit phones. Motorola's phones god damn blow.
Give us the omnia!

sucky sucky for omnia!

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SteveGlansburg @ Jul 25th 2008 4:47PM

I'd definitely buy if it was called iPhone and had the Mac OS on it instead of Windows

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SuperSexyErik (^_^) @ Jul 25th 2008 3:48PM

Edit:

This is the best f*****g phone ever to be released, EVER!
(besides iphone)
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Frankie @ Jul 28th 2008 4:59PM

unfortuantely, I would have to agree. SIKE!

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emanuelle @ Jul 25th 2008 3:58PM

omfg, you suck! It isn't rocket science genius.

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SuperSexyErik (^_^) @ Jul 25th 2008 4:28PM

take your pills loser

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Derek @ Jul 25th 2008 4:41PM

I'm a Mac user, but I still believe that the HTC Touch diamond kicks the iPhones ASS!

And about that keyboard, it looks a LOT like the keyboard on the Diamond...

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ruben magana @ Jul 25th 2008 5:02PM

i'm a mac user. and i roll windows mobile. i just can't get over apples closed nature. i don't think i should have to jailbreak a phone just to install any app i want on it.

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chickenator @ Jul 28th 2008 1:52PM

no u don't have to

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Joshua M. @ Jul 25th 2008 8:02PM

all i want to know is when is it coming out, how much will this phone cost, and i really hope that this comes over here to t-mobile

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Haro! @ Jul 25th 2008 9:07PM

Sigh. Sadly us cheap bastards get no love when it comes to phones

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wako @ Jul 25th 2008 10:37PM

this phone seems evolutionary rather than revolutionary...

i still think the HTC Touch Diamond is better

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nick @ Jul 26th 2008 12:05AM

so many apple fanboys to bitchslap so little time

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chickenator @ Jul 28th 2008 1:51PM

iPhone ftw!

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