Samsung Omnia W Review

The Samsung Omnia W is a mid-range Windows Phone handset, and as such, it offers some decent hardware, namely a 1.4GHz single-core processor, 3.7-inch Super AMOLED display, 14.4Mbps HSPA connectivity and 8 gigabytes of storage.

And if the little fella seems familiar to the folks in U.S., that is because it is pretty much identical to the Samsung Focus Flash, which recently joined AT&T's lineup. But will it leave us with an impression as good as its U.S. counterpart did once we were done playing with it? Let's take it for a spin and find out.

Microsoft shows OmniTouch: its vision for the future of touch interfaces

Now, here’s what we want to see more from Microsoft - innovation. Two teams at Microsoft Research have been working on two very exciting projects and presented their findings at UI symposium UIST 2012. The first project, OmniTouch, is the most eye-catching with its futuristic idea - turn every surface into a touch-enabled space.

How did they do it? How about plant a smaller Kinect-like device on your shoulder which allows you to interact with all surfaces using multitouch, tapping, dragging and even pinch to zoom. Sounds almost incredible, and the researchers admit that the first three weeks of developing the project were the hardest.

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Samsung Omnia W latest Super Smart phone

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a leading mobile phone provider, today announced the launch of the Samsung Omnia W, its first Smartphone based on the latest release of Microsoft’s Windows Phone, code-named Mango. Featuring an elegant design, a vivid Super AMOLED display as well as an enriched content and social communication experience enabled by People Hub, the Samsung Omnia W is a different kind of phone that puts people at the center of everything.

Samsung Omnia W I8350 is a MS Windows 7.5 OS mobile which is powered by a 1.4 GHz processor and is equipped with a document viewer and editor.

Samsung Omnia W I8350 has a 3.7-inch Super AMOLED touch screen with multi-touch. Samsung Omnia W I8350 also has a 5 megapixels camera with 2592 x 1944 pixels resolution. It also has features like auto-focus, LED flash and HD video recording.

It supports 3G: HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps, WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n. the Bluetooth is v2.1 with A2DP.

Samsung’s Enriched Apps Now, RSS Times, Video Call(3G), Photo Studio, Mini Diary, All Share(DNLA), Fun Shot, Wireless Manager, Dictionary (downloadable, except US, Canada, Mexico), Photogram (downloadable),  Rubik’s Cube(downloadable), Windows Live Skydrive (Free 25GB Storage) Tile-based Metro UX / IE9 mobile A-GPS / Bing Map will be available in the phone.

The Omnia W will be commercially available starting in Italy from end-October and gradually rolled to globally including Europe, CIS, Latin America, Africa, South East and South West Asia.