If the Instinct wasn't enough evidence to show that Samsung is truly gunning for Apple, the Samsung Omnia takes the competition to a new level. Samsung strategically announced the Omnia days before it had planned to, which was coincidentally the same day Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple iPhone 3G. The sneak attack paid off, generating buzz for the Omnia, aka the SGH-i900. Even the name, Omnia, which is Latin for "everything," is a jab at the competition.
The Omnia will run Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and offer applications like Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. For a Web browser, Omnia uses Opera 9.5. The Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth enabled Omnia has a 3.2-inch display, which, like the iPhone, takes up the majority of the device's face, aside from a few navigation buttons. The 240 x 400 resolution QVGA widescreen display is lower resolution than the iPhone, but the touch-screen uses tap, sweep, drag and drop motions similar to the iPhone's. The Omnia's screen can also open to a full QWERTY keyboard.
The quad-band Omnia operates at 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz. It will run on both WCDMA and DSM. It supports 7.2 Mbps per second HSDPA, or 3G, and EDGE data networking. It also supports a host of multimedia video standards, features a music player that can hold about 4,000 songs and a 5 megapixel auto-focus camera.
