Samsung Galaxy S first smartphone to be Wi-Fi Direct certified
Samsung has generally been on the cutting edge when it comes to giving its smartphones the latest and greatest in terms of compatibility, with the Omnia being the first DivX certified handset in America this month two years ago. Now, it's looking to wrangle yet another first, with this one having the potential to be far more important
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: Change, chipsets, edge, functionality, omnia, pointtopoint, ralink, realtek, short-rangecommunication, wi-fialliance, wi-fidirect, wifi direct
Samsung Omnia 7 review
We knew Samsung's been in the Windows Phone 7 game pretty much since day one, but the Korean giant's managed to keep its Europe-bound Omnia 7 under tight wraps until mid-summer this year.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, amoled, engadget, giant, i8700, know-the-drill, omnia, samsung, samsung-omnia
HTC 7 Mozart and Samsung Omnia 7 on sale tomorrow at 7am on Orange UK
We knew Windows Phone 7 was scheduled to land first internationally, but it's always a treat to hear the particulars. Orange UK has just (re)revealed that it'll be the exclusive carrier of HTC's 7 Mozart across the pond, and it'll be joined by Samsung's Omnia 7 as both go on sale tomorrow morning in Orange's Oxford Street shop -- fittingly, at 7am local time. Naturally, the carrier is going to blow out the launch, with each customer buying a WP7 handset to receive a complimentary Bluetooth headset...
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: 7 mozart, bluetooth, entry, handset, mobile-os, mobileos, north-america, omnia, omnia 7, orange, orange uk, phone, sale-tomorrow, samsung, windowsphone7
HTC Surround slides into Best Buy for $550 unsubsidized, Omnia 7 appears at T-Mobile UK
Micro surround speaker bar in a Windows Phone sound like your cup of tea? Best Buy's taking your HTC Surround pre-orders right now for handsets that'll ship on November 8th, and cost a penny under $550 on the off-chance you're looking to buy off-contract. Hey, you can even call it the T8788 if you want -- we won't tell a soul
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: cup, handset, handsets, htc, omnia, omnia 7, pre-order, preorder, preorders, samsung omnia 7, smartphone, sound, Super
Samsung Omnia 7 first hands-on!
Samsung's Omnia 7, ladies and gents. The only Super AMOLED in Microsoft's launch Windows Phone 7 stable, the Omnia 7 looks appropriately vibrant and richly saturated. To be perfectly fair, we didn't note a major advantage in using its display relative to the other WP7 devices, but that's more a mark of distinction on the other phones on show here
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: button, distinction, lines, omnia, phone, result, samsung, windows, windows-phone, wp7 launch
Samsung Omnia 7 brings 4-inch Super AMOLED screen to Windows Phone 7… a little early
Boy, there's hardly been enough time to catch our breath and analyze the first unintentionally official Windows Phone 7 handset in the form of LG's Optimus 7 , yet Samsung is already joining the fray with its own Omnia 7 . Currently populating its very own landing page on Samsung's Russian site, the Omnia 7 is a 4-inch Super AMOLED beastie with a rather aged 1GHz Qualcomm QSD8250 at its core, 8GB of storage, and a 5 megapixel cam that can do 720p video.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: handset, landing, megapixel, omnia, omnia 7, omnia7, populating-its, qsd8250, russian, samsung, samsung omnia 7, samsungomnia7, source, storage, windows-phone
Windows Phone 7 slides into TV spot, Rachel Zoe’s life
If you knew anything about The Rachel Zoe Project, you'd know that dear Rachel never, ever leaves home without her BlackBerry .
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: berman, BlackBerry, bravo, comforting, commercials, her-comforting, omnia, phone, relying-on-wifi, samsung, windows, windows phone 7, windows-phone, wp7
Samsung joins the crowd, rejects Apple’s Omnia 2 antenna claims
RIM and Nokia aren't the only ones saying "WTF Steve!?" after last Friday's press conference attempted to draw the competition into the Antennagate saga. Samsung has issued its own choice reaction about supposed problems with the Omnia 2 , though this one is somewhat less sternly worded than the others: The antenna is located at the bottom of the Omnia 2 phone, while iPhone's antenna is on the lower left side of the device. Our design keeps the distance between a hand and an antenna
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: antenna, antenna-claims, apple, cynicism, iphone4, memory, nice, nokia, omnia, omnia 2, people, reaction, result
Windows Phone 7 pops up on a Samsung prototype device, plays Twin Blades
Microsoft's Joe Belfiore certainly piqued our interest at MIX by demoing Windows Phone 7 on an unidentified Samsung handset , but our excitement soon faded when we found out it was just a hacked-up Omnia i8910 and not a real phone. Still, the Sammy remains only the third WP7 device we've seen other than the ASUS-built test mule and the prototype LG Panther that's been popping up recently after debuting on the Engadget Show , so these two videos of it running a recent WP7 build at reMIX in France is still quite notable -- the OS seems fast and responsive, and we're told everything on the device was functional, including the GPS and camera. What's more, there's a demo of an Xbox Live Arcade / iPhone game port called Twin Blades by Press Star Studio -- it was done in a week by one programmer using 90 percent of the Xbox Live code
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: arcade, blades, device, omnia, press, pressstar, result, samsung, shuffle, windows phone 7 series
Keepin’ it real fake: phoney Armani handset borrows some of that Samsung glamor
When we reviewed the Samsung Omnia II , we forgot to mention one major drawback: the lack of Giorgio Armani branding. Luckily the KIRFmeisters of Shenzhen have picked up where the original manufacturer dropped the ball