More phone updates

Not much to report recently, although this just caught my eye.
Highlights include:

13.5 hours of talktime
Up to 3 hours of video recording at 720p (4.1 hours for D1)

In other words, the battery life in the final units will be seriously improved from the prototypes.

OmniaHD uses OMAP 3440?

Another link into the mystery of what processor the OmniaHD uses, this one in Italian.  However, it’s pretty easy to understand, and says that the phone uses an OMAP 3440 running 800 Mhz.  The 3440 is capable of HD recording and playback, while the 3430 is not.

The difference is in the caps

Something I noticed about the Nokia N86 versus the Samsung Omnia HD: Nokia’s handset has all of its connectors exposed, while the Samsung unit has caps for all of them.
While I can’t speak for Samsung units across all time, I can make statements about Nokia’s Nseries phones.  Except for the microSD slot, all the hardware [...]

OMAP3 powers the Omnia HD

I had my suspicions this would be true when I first read about what the i8910 could do, but this article seems to confirm it. The Omnia HD is powered by an OMAP 3 chip with a dedicated graphics processor.  Which kind of OMAP 3 is unclear—there’s a 3430, which is what the Palm Pre [...]

It’s 2006 all over again–the real Nokia N95 sucessor has arrived as the Omnia HD

Don’t let the title mislead you—when I say it’s 2006, that’s a good thing.  It was in 2006 that Nokia shocked the world when it unveiled the N95, a phone that even by today’s harsh standards is still a very good phone.
It was today, Feb. 16, 2009, that Samsung has announced the first phone that [...]

First Omnia HD/i8910 official photo

The first official press photo has leaked from…somewhere.  It matters not where it came from—what matters is that it’s here and we can clearly see that it’s running S60 (as evidenced by the signal strength and battery indicators at top) and that it has a custom TouchWiz skin/overlay in place of the standard standby screen.
I [...]

Samsung’s i8910 to officially be the Omnia HD

Or, specifically, the OmniaHD if the superscript is to be recognized.
I think it’s a very interesting name choice.  Of course, I prefer numerical names for phones the best (in this case, the i8910), but at least this is a cool name.  They decided against the codename of “Acme,” which is a relief since it can [...]

No 12MP phone this time, folks

Samsung apparently will not be introducing a shiney new 12MP cameraphone at MWC on Monday, despite earlier rumors (from the same original source, I think) that they would.
Oh well.
There are plenty of months left in the year.

S8300 UltraTOUCH a sign of things to come next week

Samsung’s “big” announcement today was the S8300.  Sure, it’s no i8910, but it’s still a pretty remarkable device.
Despite being primarily designed as a fashion phone and not a power device, it still packs the most up-to-date specifications around including an 8MP autofocus camera with dual-LED flash, D1 video recording, GPS, and a 2.8-inch WQVGA AMOLED [...]

The i8910 – the day after

Now that the orgasmic explosion of excitement is over (ok, this is a lie; I’m still pretty excited), what do all the various features and functions of the i8910 mean?

The Samsung i8910 – It is mine

Holy crap holy crap holy holy crap holy crap crap!
It’s confirmed. It’s all confirmed.
Excuse me a moment while I cool down and compose myself.  This is like porn for me.
(Five minutes pass.)
OK, ok…I think I’m ready.  First off, let me introduce you to the Samsung i8910, in the flesh.  Yesterday’s rumors proved 100% accurate, which I [...]

Samsung Leaksville

Just came across this leaked i8910, codenamed “Acme.”
If the rumors prove true, and I hope they do, we’re looking at an S60 touch device with an 8MP camera and—wait for it!—HD video recording! That’s a minimum of 1024×768 (XGA), folks, though most likely 1280×720 (720p). That certainly blows the measly 640×480 recording [...]

The sieve is open–MWC seems ripe for 12MP hotness

There are now tons of reports out in the Interwebz that Samsung does indeed seem to be prepping a 12 MP camera phone for MWC starting on the 16th.  Of course, they may also announce it early on the 9th as previous reports suggested.  The best news is that it’s supposed to be ready to [...]

Verrrry very interesink

If this shoddily-translated Korean report is true, apparently we’ll be seeing a 12 MP camera phone out of Samsung at MWC this year.  (No, not a “1200″ MP phone as the article states; that’s for next year.)
While it’s generally regarded as fact that 12 MP phones will be released this year—both Samsung and Sony announced [...]

My predictions for MWC 2009

On a personal note, I wish it was still referred to as 3GSM.  Sounds a lot cooler than MWC.  Especially when you learn what “MWC” stands for–”Mobile World Congress.”  Sounds like white people in suits.  Sounds like no fun.
Anyway, last year’s “MWC’ was pretty good.  Not great, but good.  It saw the intro of Sony [...]