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FIRST look review of the Samsung Omnia, “Promising full touchscreen functionality with a business rather than consumer focus, the Omnia sports a 3.2-inch screen, comes with HSDPA 7.2Mbps and Wi-Fi connectivity, a 5 megapixel camera, accelerometer and will come with two memory options 8 or 16GB…It might feature a large touchscreen, but an iphone competitor this isn’t; nor is the i900 likely to stand up to any Android handset prototype we’ve seen to date down to the unimaginative user interface.”

Samsung announced that starting July 22, OMNIA will launch on the Italian market. This is the first European country to get the all-in-one multimedia-friendly smartphone, but others will follow and it will be available through major carriers as well as in open markets before the end of August. Italians now can already pre-order the OMNIA, taking advantage of a promotion, giving them a free Xbox 360 Arcade. The unsubsidized 8GB variant will cost 499 EUR ($793), which is a pretty good price for a high-end phone, and a bargain for the same phone AND a console. Prices in other countries will vary.

Recently the company has presented mobile phones Samsung F700 and F510. Samsung F700 has camera with 5 mega pixel power and auto focus. Its touch screen of 2.8 wide has 262K colors, with 440 x 240 pixels of resolution. The advantage of Samsung F700 is that it is filled with HSDA (3.5G) technology that provides the high speed data access. It also has QWERTY keypad that will open a fresh view on typing messages. Meanwhile, Samsung F510 almost all the features are the same as F700 has. But it is also called Ultra Mobile TV. F510 is supplied with opportunity of DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting-Handhelds) receiver, which gives the users amazing possibility to pick up TV broadcast. One more interesting and unique function of F510 mobile phone is supporting DivX codec that enables to play various video clips, including MPEG-4, H.264, WMV and AVI.