Samsung Omnia 2 SCH-i920 announced
Verizon has officially announced the launch of the Samsung Omnia 2 SCH-i920, said to be an update of the Samsung Omnia II i8000.The phone will be available from December 2, 2009, at a price of $199.99 on 2-yr contract after a $100 mail-in rebate. Here are some of the main features of the Samsung Omnia 2 SCH-i920 or the Samsung Omnia 2 i8000.
The Samsung Omnia 2 will be available in India as well around the same time. The phone will be available at a price of Rs 28,990.
Samsung Omnia 2 SCH-i920 Specifications
Photo: Samsung i8000 Omnia II phone
The Samsung Omnia 2 SCH-i920 touchscreen phone comes with a 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen (resistive) display with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels and features like sunlight readability. The resistive feature has not earned the phone any strikes in the responsiveness department, in most reviews.
That is probably, in part, because of Samsung’s intuitive TouchWiz 2.0 user interface with Haptic feedback and Samsung’s Cube for quicker access to important functions.
It ensures that users can move swiftly between various applications that they have opened.
Another feature is an integrated auto-display feature that allows users to change their photos and so on from potrait to landscape mode by just tilting the phone.
Photo: Samsung i8000 Omnia II
The Samsung Omnia 2 SCH-i920 has interesting multimedia features.
It comes with a 5-megapixel camera with accelerometer and allows users to shoot photos in panoramic, action, smile and mosiac modes. There is also autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging, and video recording with specs of 720×480@30fps, and secondary VGA videocall camera.
There is a photo editor, video editor, Media Gate 3D, DivX / XviD / MP4/ H.263/ H.264/ WMV player, and MP3/ e-AAC+/ WMA / WMDRM / OMA DRM 2.1 player.
Other features include Opera 9.5 browser, jack, Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g), GPS, Bluetooth, FM radio with RDS, 3.5-mm jack, and microUSB v2.0.
The Samsung Omnia 2 SCH-i920 runs on the Samsung S3C6410 800MHz processor. It runs the Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional OS, that is upgradeable to Windows Mobile 6.5.
The phone works on GPRS/HSCSD/EDGE and 3G networks.
The battery offers standby time up to 430 h (2G)/430 h (3G) and talk time of up to 10 h (2G)/10 h (3G).
Samsung has said that the Omnia 2 SCH-i920 is Samsung’s first device in the US to feature the Samsung Widget Store, that gives users customers access hundreds of free widgets that they can download to their handsets.