Samsung announced yesterday the European wide market availability of Samsung Omnia. First unveiled in June 2008 at CommunicAsia in Singapore, the Samsung Omnia, meaning ‘everything’ in Latin and ‘wish’ in Arabic. It is designed to provide business users with stylish multimedia capabilities and personal mobile users with simple access to business based functions.

Pre-installed with Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface, a list of little widgets are ready for you to customise and personalise the home screen. With the 3.2-inch WQVGA display screen, you can tap, sweep, drag and drop the widgets easily. The whole operation on the home screen is smooth with minimum lag, it takes about 1MB of the memory to keep it running.

The Samsung Omnia is ultra slim with a size of only 112 x 56.9 x 12.5 mm. The 127 grams body has packed with the support of HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, EDGE, GSM Quadband, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth and FM Radio. You also get a built in 16GB/8GB flash memory. It will take you a while to fill it up even with a 5 megapixel camera on board. The Omnia accepts up to 16GB of microSDHC memory card, which boost up the total file storage space to 32GB maximum.

Some other key features include:

• wide 3.2-inch LCD screen
• five-megapixel camera with auto-focus (AF), face and smile detection and auto-panorama shot.
• available in 8GB or 16 GB capacity options and extendable slot for additions
• GPS

The Samsung is currently available in Italy, Netherland, Germany and will be available in most of European countries including UK, France, Spain from September.

Samsung (i900) Specifications

• Network: HSDPA (7.2 Mbps), EDGE / GPRS 850/900/1800/1900
• OS: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
• Display: 3.2″ WQVGA TFT LCD (240 x 400)
• Camera: 5 Megapixel CMOS
• Auto Focus, Image Stablizer, Geo-tagging, Auto-Panorama Shot,
• Wide Dynamic Range (WDR), Face Detection, Smile Detection
• Video: DivX / XviD / H.263 / H.264 / WMV / MP4
• Video Editing: Trim video, Audio dubbing, Live dubbing, Add subtitle, Image capture
• FM Radio with RDS
• MP3/ AAC / AAC+ / WMA / OGG / AMR
• GPS
• TouchWiz UI
• MS Office Document Viewer, Advanced PIM Apps, Push Email,
• Auto Rotation, TV Out
• Bluetooth 2.0 / USB 2.0 / Wi-Fi
• 8GB / 16GB Flash + External Memory slot : microSDHC
• Size: 112 x 56.9 x 12.5 mm
• Battery: 1440 mAh