New Samsung Phones: Omni Pro, Omnia II, Jet and More

Samsung dumped a bunch of new phones on us this morning. There are a few surprises, like the largest AMOLED screen yet in a phone, and a few disappointments, like the largely unchanged Jackie. Details on the new phones below.



Samsung seems to be a little obsessed with the Omnia line right now because a lot of the new phones carry the name. Samsung unveiled the Omnia II, Omnia Pro, Omnia Lite, Jet (which looks almost identical to the Omnia II), I7500 Android phone (which we've already seen) and the Pixon 12. Pictured above (from left to right) are the I7500, Pixon 12, Omnia Pro (formerly Louvre B7610) and Jackie B7320 (remarkably similar to the Jack that's been out for a while).

While we're still mildly excited about the I7500, although the Android excitement is waning, the Omnia Pro and the Jet definitely captured our attention most out of the lineup. While Samsung was very quiet about specs, we're delighted to find out that the B7610 Louvre we heard about is actually the Omnia Pro because the rumored specs for the Louvre are pretty interesting. They include 3.5 inch AMOLED display with 800x480 resolution, 5.1MP camera, 7.2Mbps HSDPA data rates, WiFi, Bluetooth, 1GB storage with microSDHC expansion slot and 800Mhz processor with Windows Mobile (presumably 6.5).

The Jet is a pretty sleek looking phone, and we're most excited about the fact that it also sports an 800Mhz processor like the Omnia Pro does. The Cube interface isn't that spectacular; we've seen it on Samsung phones before and it's serviceable. But the WebKit browser included on the phone should make everyone excited; that alone should make the phone attractive for those who like to surf the webz on their phone. Here's the full spec list.

• Network: EDGE/GPRS Class 12 (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz), HSDPA 3.6Mbps (900, 2100 MHz)


• Display: 3.1" 16M WVGA AMOLED


• Camera: 5.0 Megapixel AF camera+ Dual Power LED, Face Detection, Smile Shot, Panorama Shot, Blink Detection, Geo-tagging, Photo Editor


• Video: D1 Video Playback/D1 30fps Video Recording, MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, DivX, XviD, Video Editor


• Audio: Music Player with DNSe & SRS WOW Sound Effect, Find Music, 3.5 Ear Jack, FM Radio/Recording, MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, AMR, MIDI, SP-MIDI, i-melody, WAV, MMF, XMF, OMA DRM v2.1, WMDRM, DivX VOD


• Value Added: In-house developed Dolfin Browser, WAP 2.0, One finger Zoom, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, Share Pix & Mobile Widget, A-GPS, On Board Navigation(3D Map), TouchWiz 2.0, Motion UI, Media Gate 3D, Multi-tasking Manager


• Connectivity: Bluetooth