Samsung Omnia comes to India


Samsung launched its fully-loaded handset, Samsung Omnia (SGH-i900), in the Indian market recently. A touch phone that features Samsung’s patented TouchWiz user interface is a stylish and fully loaded handset that could be tough competition to some HTC touch phones.

Specs:

High resolution screen

3.2-inch WQVGA LCD screen

On-screen QWERTY keyboard

Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system

MS Office documents such as PowerPoint, Excel and Word

Outlook Express

12.5-mm

16 GB Internal Memory

16 GB microSD card from Sandisk

Features:

Dedicated dome key to control communications

DivX, Xvid and other video formats

GPS

Geo-tagging

5 megapixel CMOS camera

Auto-focus (AF), face detection, smile detection and auto-panorama shot

Optical mouse

Announcing the launch of Samsung Omnia, Sunil Dutt, Country Head-Samsung Telecom, said, “Samsung Omnia is our flagship model aimed  at users who desire  a lot of functionality, a lot of style, a lot of usability and a lot of entertainment in one innovative device. Samsung Omnia  will help users to be at the forefront of work and play and at the same time, to stay connected anytime, anywhere”.

Price:

Rs. 39,999 (32 GB Memory) and Rs. 37,999 (24 GB Memory)

That’s a whopping amount for Indian buyers and surely the handset will find few takers in the hi-tech & hi cost market segment.