Samsung’s high-end landscape slider that has been rumoured since January this year.
The 4 row slider, as is usual these days, pretty well specified, with a 3.5 inch AMOLED WVGA screen, 5 megapixel camera with image stabilization and the usual HSDPA, wifi, bluetooth and GPS, all packed into only 1.6 cm thickness. It also features 1 GB Flash built in and a microSD slot, and Samsung seems to finally have abandoned their proprietary connector, opting for the more common miniUSB.
While the smartphone will still run Windows Mobile 6.1 it will feature Samsung’s usual overlay, and will be upgradable to Windows Mobile 6.5.
The smartphone is expected soon, and should be available in July on Orange Business and SFR Business Team. The device is expected to be aggressively priced at between €250 and €500
The full specs list are:
Quadband (850/900/1800/1900 Mhz), GPRS, EDGE and HSDPA (3G +) to 7.2 Mbps
Integrated GPS receiver (A-GPS)
AMOLED Touch Screen size 3.5 inches with 800 x 480 pixels (WVGA) and 16 million colours
5 Megapixels Digital Camera, no flash
FM radio with RDS
1 GB ROM
Bluetooth 2.0
Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g
MiniUSB 2.0
MicroSDHC (up to 32 GB)
Accelerometer
Battery Lithium-Ion 1500 mAh
Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
Dimensions: 11.2 x 5.8 x 1.6 cm
Samsung’s GT-I8000, or Omnia II / Omnia 2 as it’s expected to be known by the time it launches. Spec-counters will want to listen in close ’cause the GT-I8000 comes packing a 3.7-inch WVGA (800 x 480 pixel) AMOLED display (presumably the same display just revealed by Samsung last week) with an 8.1 megapixel camera lit by dual-LEDs capable of recording VGA video at 30fps. The Lithuanian on-line retailer responsible for leaking the specs (which have now been removed) says we’ll see a 1500mAh battery powering HSDPA data with a custom “cubic” UI (looking very similar to the UI on the S8000 Jet) riding atop Windows Mobile. With a superior spec-sheet will it be a more hit than its previous version ?
Skyfire has opened up the beta version of its browser to anyone who is interested in testing it the mobile browse. Skyfire is also offering a new version of the browser with some new features. The new version — 0.8 — fixes bugs, but also supports Ajax, Flash, Quicktime, and Windows Media for a more PC-like experience. It also includes better video quality; the ability to make Skyfire the default browser; faster launch and auto-reconnect; improved zooming; and the ability to download content. Current beta testers of the 0.6 version can migrate to the 0.8 version beginning today. Skyfire will have a 0.8 beta available for Symbian in the near future.
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