Samsung Omnia II

Samsung's Windows Mobile Smartphone Omnia II is in the starting blocks and will revolutionize the nature of the text input on mobile devices. Behind the "Genius Texting" puts the function called by the T9 inventors developed technology Swype. Samsung Omnia Smartphone II will be available in the USA from 2 December 2009 on Verizon Wireless sold. It is the first mobile phone that comes with the text input technology Swype, which is called the Samsung Genius texting.

In this way, the text can be entered much faster than in the normal way by tapping the letters. More than 50 words per minute should be achievable with the help of Swype. If a point twice in a row, is scrawled on the spot. The word is not clear, the software shows a selection of matching words. The space bar is here almost superfluous. As the words are typed into a movement that can be interpreted as the settling of word. The Omnia II uses Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system and features a 3.7 inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. In addition, a 5-megapixel camera and an A-GPS sensor are installed. The device supports Bluetooth version 2.0 and Wi-Fi is available. Which variants are supported here is, not apparent from the data sheet.

The device supports UMTS-HSDPA with a maximum of 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA at up to 5.76 Mbit / s as well as EDGE and GPRS. It transmits on the UMTS frequencies 900, 1,900 and 2,100 MHz. It plays audio in the formats MP3, AAC, AAC + and WMA, video formats DivX, Xvid, H.263, H.264, WMV9 and MPEG4. The talk time of the Samsung Omnia II gives with 10 hours in UMTS mode, the standby time of 430 hours. The price of Samsung Omnia was supposed to be 470$.