Samsung Launches Yet Another Omnia Handset in India

In keeping with its brand positioning of ‘NEXT is What’, Samsung has strengthened its Omnia series with the launch of the Omnia II–GT I8000. The I8000 looks exactly like the Samsung Jet with a larger display.

Announcing the launch, Ranjeet Yadav, Director IT and Telecom, Samsung Electronics said, “Omnia II is designed to take user experience to the next level. It captures our vision to provide phones to the consumers which are not only great looking but provide even greater functionality and usability using latest technologies and messaging platforms”.

Based on Windows 6.1 platform, Omnia II is the Company’s newest full-touch screen phone that brings together style, multimedia and business performance in one device. Samsung Omnia II features an all new Intuitive 3D UI along with Samsung’s TouchWiz 2.0 UI.

Features include -

• a 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen with a480 x 800 pixels and 65K colors
• 3G (with HSDPA), EDGE/GPRS
• Wi-Fi (DLNA supported)
• GPS with A-GPS support
• Bluetooth with A2DP, USB 2.0
• 5 megapixel AF camera with a Dual LED flash features Geotagging, face and smile detection
• Stereo FM with RDS, Recording
• DivX, XviD video support
• TV Out
• 8GB internal memory and a microSD card slot

The Motion-enabled features include 3D photo Album, Video library, Music library, Browser bookmarks and FM Radio UI. The preloaded and downloadable online mobile Widgets deliver up-to-date information. With Samsung communities, the Omnia II lets users upload images and videos to popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, MySpace, Photobucket and Friendster. Add to that, the phone’s high-connectivity functions including Wi-Fi and HSUPA capabilities mean that a user’s photos can be shared to their friends in no time.

The Omnia II is priced at Rs. 28,990.