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Another Fine QWERTY Smartphone from Korea ? The Samsung Omnia Pro B7610
Samsung launches the Omnia Pro B7610, also dubbed the Samsung Louvre, with a rumored retail price in the €500 price point. It runs on the Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional platform and sporting a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard. This looks like the Korean mobile phone maker’s flagship gambit into the full-featured business smartphone markets to take on HTC and Blackberry products.
Special features
The new Omnia Pro goes beyond your typical business and messaging smartphone with leading edge imaging and multimedia features that makes many so called entertainment phones look Jurassic by comparison.
Much like some Nokia Smartphones out there, the new Omnia Pro comes with two user interfaces: one you can customize for your business profile and another for your personal private profile. It has a dedicated key to instantly switch between the two. Its 3.5-inch screen may look ordinary, but it’s one of the few capacitive touchscreens using the AMOLED display technology. It sports a WVGA resolution at 800 by 480 and supports 24-bit 16 million colours. It has a 5.1 megapixel autofocus camera with LED Flash. Video graphics accelerator is standard and supported by an 800nhz processor for a truly impressive multimedia experience. There’s an extremely generous 1GB of internal memory that can be expanded to accommodate 32Gb on its microSD expansion slot. Music and video files gets DLNA support and a TV out facility for wireless and wired connection to suitable Samsung TVs, respectively.
Other Competitive Features
It has the industry standard 3.5mm audio out jack. Internet surfing and downloading gets high-speed support with 3G/HSDPA/HSUPA high-speed data connectivity. Local high speed data connectivity is supported with Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi/WLAN support Standard stereo FM radio with RDS is built-in There’s a Digital compass with A-GPS support Powered by a standards Lithium-Ion 1500 mA battery, you get 8 hours of talk time on FSM and up to 18 days in standby mode.
The Verdict
Samsung is positioning the Omnia Pro to answer Sony Ericsson’s anticipated Windows mobile phones that enables 3D graphics for a higher price point unlocked. The suffix “Pro” latches on the market perception of an office QWERTY gadget using Windows-derived platform for a more seamless integration with office and home desktop PCs. The Samsung Omnia Pro or Louvre B7610 is one such product to take the trend on its own terms with a very capable QWERTY slider.
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