The Samsung Omnia 7 features a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 4-inch 800 x 480 Super AMOLED touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera with 720p HD video recording, 8GB/16GB built-in storage, microSD card of up to 16GB, and WiFi 802.11b/g/n among others.Samsung Omnia 7
The Samsung Omnia 7 release date is holidays 2010 in Europe courtesy of partners like Orange, T-Mobile, Movistar, and SFR.
As for the US, the Omnia 7 will be called Samsung Focus and it’s going to become available exclusively at AT&T. The Samsung Focus release date is November 8th for the small
price of $199.99 for the very same specs.
It isn't the largest display on offer in the Windows Phone 7 portfolio, but all the phones offer the same 800 x 480 pixel resolution. It is the most striking display however, and having been faced with all the release handsets over the last week, we eschewed the vastness of the HTC HD7 for the punch of the Samsung. It offers better colour rendition, whiter whites and blacker black, whilst also staying true when you view from sharper angles.
The screen not only tips its hat to the Galaxy S, Samsung’s 4-inch Android handset, the design does too. Only this time you're not faced with a Palm full of plastic; instead you have a premium metal body that feels great in the hand. From a design point of view, the Omnia 7 towers over its Android brother, even if the internal specs are mostly the same.
This being a Windows Phone, you'll find the stipulated three buttons beneath the glorious screen, offering back, Start and search. This is common to all Windows Phones, as are the dedicated camera button and volume keys. Manufacturers are allowed to place the standby button wherever they like and here you'll find it on the right-hand side, as it is on the Galaxy S, and again the Micro-USB connector is on the top by a sliding cover. In this case the cover is also metal, so you get the sense that it will last the life of the device.
The backplate is removable, revealing the battery bay and SIM card slot. With Windows Phone 7 not supporting removable memory there is no expansion slot - you have the 8GB of internal memory and that's your lot. The idea, of course, is not to try and carry around your entire collection of photos, movies and music, but rather get engaged in the cloud-based offering that seems to be pushed here. In particular you'll find a range of ways you can utilise your SkyDrive, which comes as part of your Windows Live account, with Microsoft putting its services front and centre across the device. That's no different to Apple with MobileMe or Android with your Google account and we can live with that.
Microsoft doesn't shut itself off from the outside world though - Facebook integration is one of the headline features of the People Hub and you can plug in your Google details too to pull in your contacts, calendar and emails, along with the expected support for Outlook and Exchange. Out of the box you’ll be up and running in no time at all, your online content syncing to the phone with very little bother.
We've covered the details of the operating system in our Windows Phone 7 review and we're not going to repeat it all here - there are also lots of photos of the OS in that review. If you are interested in the experience of living with the new operating system from Microsoft, then give it a read - we’ve put a link at the bottom of this review so you can head straight to it once you’ve finished here. What we will do is look at those applications you'll find pre-installed on the phone.
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