US wireless communications provider Verizon Wireless and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile), a provider of wireless handsets and telecommunications products throughout North America, on Monday announced the availability of the new Samsung Omnia II smartphone.
Samsung Omnia II is a full-touch all-in-one smartphone powered by Windows Mobile 6.5. It is available in black with red accents on the battery cover.
The phone features a 3.7-inch ultra-brilliant touch screen, which is a widescreen WVGA AMOLED (Wide Video Graphics Array Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) responsive touch screen. It also has a 5.0 megapixel camera with flash and auto-focus and camcorder and decoder with DNSe technology and on-device editing capabilities, Wi-Fi technology , support for Divx and Xvid movie files, 8 GB internal memory and expandable memory of up to 16 GB with microSD memory card and Bluetooth.
The device also has a virtual QWERTY keyboard with Swype technology , Microsoft Office Mobile, enhanced 3D cube user interface , full HTML Web browsing capabilities with Opera 9.5 enhanced browser, one-touch access to social networking sites via shortcut widgets.
The phone also supports Verizon Wireless services, including V CAST Music with Rhapsody, V CAST Video On Demand, V CAST Song ID, Visual Voice Mail, VZW Tones, VZ Navigator, Mobile IM and Mobile Email Full messaging suite, including SMS, MMS, Mobile IM, Mobile Email and Corporate Email ate available, along with access to social networking applications, including YouTube, Facebook and MySpace, with Samsung’s unique TouchWiz 2.0 user interface A The Samsung Omnia II will be available online at http://www.verizonwireless.com and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores, beginning 2 December 2009, for USD199.99 after a USD100 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement.