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Samsung Windows 7.5 smartphone for Rs 18,650

by Jul 31, 2012

Samsung’s success might be due to Android but that hasn’t stopped the South Korean company from experimenting with other Operating systems as well. IBN-Live reports that Samsung will launch the Omnia M smartphone, which will run on the Windows 7.5 operating system. The Omnia M comes is priced at Rs 18,650.

Key features of the smartphone are :
• A 4-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen.
• A 1GHz processor, a 384 MB RAM and an internal storage space of 4 GB.
• 1,500mAh battery.

Image from IBN-Live.

• It has a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash and VGA front camera.
• The device offers a tile based Metro User Interface.

Windows 7.5 offers features like custom ringtones, visual voicemail, and the ability to send voice based text messages. It also introduces messaging threads, where a user can start a message on text and end it with a Facebook message.

It is also more integrated with Facebook, and other social media.

The Verge has reported that the Samsung is also two potential Windows 8 smartphones. This was revealed in court documents in which were submitted by Samsung in the on-going patent battle with Apple in California. You can read more about that here.

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