Friday, July 24, 2009

AT&T/Rogers 3G ready Samsung I8000 Omnia 2 clears FCC


Sammy fans in the US (and perhaps Canada) have cause for celebration as the FCC has just given the upcoming Omnia2 its coveted nod of approval. Preliminary documentation is limited but at least one tasty tidbit can be gleaned — this little guy is packing UMTS 850/1900. That’s right people, AT&T and Rogers’ 3G frequencies are confirmed to be on board, though it remains to be seen whether either carrier will offer the handset. A quick refresher:

GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS 850/1900 MHz, HSDPA 7.2Mbps, HSUPA5.76 Mbps
3.7-inch WVGA (480×800) AMOLED touchscreen, Advanced R touch (Resistive)
Memory: 8/16GB storage memory, hot-swappable microSD card slot (up to 32GB total)
Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, TouchWiz 2.0 UI with 3D effects
800 MHz processor
5 megapixel camera with auto-focus, dual LED flash, geo-tagging, face and smile detection, image stabilization, Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) and D1 video recording at 15 fps
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth with A2DP, standard microUSB port, standard 3.5mm audio jack, GPS receiver with A-GPS
Accelerometer
DivX/XviD video support
FM radio with RDS
DNSe
Dimensions: 118 x 59.6 x 11.9 mm
1500 mAh battery
Anyone excited, or enough with the full touchscreen Windows Mobile phones already? Hit the jump for a nice little video showing this little guy off.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Buying memory is such a time consuming process... You have to search online for prices, filter through which ones are legit, go out to a bunch of stores,compare prices, finally buy your memory, and then fervently pray that the price doesn't drop in the next month or so.

I've been done in by some ridiculous price drops in the past... especially this one time when I bought a Micro SD card for my R4 gaming flash card at what I thought was a steal, only to later see that it had dropped by five bucks in a week's time.

(Submitted using NetSurf for R4i Nintendo DS.)