Samsung Omnia Pro Smartphone Debuts Earlier than Expected
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The Samsung Omnia Pro arrives for the CommunicAsia show held June 16 to 19 in Singapore. Samsung announces three other smartphones along with the Omnia Pro mobile device.
It was rumored
that the Samsung Omnia Pro smartphone might arrive in August, but Samsung
is said to have regained control of the leaking information and officially
introduced the new smartphone-formerly named the Louvre B7610-in time for the
start of the CommunicAsia show in Singapore,
held June 16 to 19.
Unwired View first published images of the smartphone, which features a 3.5-inch
AMOLED touch-screen with 480 by 800 pixels. Hiding behind the screen is a
four-row QWERTY keyboard that slides down along the length of the device's
side.
Unless two color options will be available, the front of the device appears to
be charcoal, and its back side, with the camera eye, has a subtle ripple design
and is a shade a manufacturer might like to call Merlot (though Chianti might
be more on the money).
The Omnia Pro will work over HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access)/SHUPA
networks and offer two user interfaces, Pro and Media, for separating business
and pleasure; a dedicated key will enable users to seamlessly switch between
the two.
Other features include GPS, Wi-Fi support,
Bluetooth, FM radio, a 5.1-megapixel camera, an 800MHz CPU, 1GB of internal
memory and a MicroSDHC card for adding 32GB of memory.
No official price was offered, but Unwired View hopes for a retail price below
500 Euro, which converts to nearly $699-the price of the
unsubsidized Nokia N97.
According to PC Magazine, Samsung also
introduced the Omnia Pro B7320, a slab-style phone with a keyboard, the Omnia
Lite B7300, a Windows Mobile phone with a touch-screen, and the Omnia II for
the Verizon Wireless network. Samsung executives said the Omnia Pro B7610,
B7320 and B7300 will not be coming to the United
States, according to PC Magazine.
