Tadah, Samsung introduces two new touch screen devices — the Preston and Star. Both are almost similar except that the Preston boasts a faster HSDPA connectivity for data. What sucks? Well in as much as both look like really great touch screen devices, WiFi is still lacking!

Both devices come with FM Radio support, 3.2MP camera, and Bluetooth. The Preston comes with a 2.8 inch screen while the Star comes with a slightly bigger 3 inch screen.

Both phones also utilize the Widget UI that has become popular among Samsung phones, allowing you to drag and drop widgets onto the main …read more

Happy weekend folks. I’ve been looking for commercials from Samsung that spelled Olympics 2008 and found this one to be one of the most entertaining. This is a spot for the Samsung F480, their touch screen widget phone upon which the Samsung OMNIA is based on.
Ready? Ready!

The Samsung OMNIA is Samsung’s latest Windows Mobile lifestyle phone. It runs beneath a combination of Windows Mobile 6.1 and its own proprietary user interface. Samsung’s own UI is divided into a (1) main menu and apps list and (2) the famous drag + drop widgets layout we’ve seen in the SGH F480.

The OMNIA also includes the touch sensitive trackpad mouse navigation seen in its “SamsungBerry” counterparts allowing mouse functions to roll into the UI. This function can be turned off anytime, thus converting the trackpad into a 5 way directional pad. The OMNIA comes with a built in accelerometer …read more

Proud to report we’ve gotten our hands on a Samsung OMNIA. Our first impression is that the OMNIA is akin to Samsung’s design philosophy, albeit with fingerprint magnet on the screen. The OMNIA runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 and boasts a 5MP camera. It has Bluetooth and WiFi. What’s interesting about the OMNIA is it’s custom UI and widget interface like the SGH F480.

We’ll be posting a hands on within the next few hours. In the meantime, here are the product tech specs
Samsung OMNIA (SGH-i900) Specifications
HSDPA (7.2 Mbps), EDGE / GPRS 850/900/1800/1900
Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
3.2” WQVGA TFT LCD …read more

Exactly a year ago, Samsung was working on releasing a mobile phone – the Samsung u740 that featured a dual-type keypad that exploited both numerical and QWERTY keypad in one sitting. A year later, Samsung took a different direction and offered dual SIMS in one phone, widgetized user interfaces, and even outsourcing a competitor’s operating system to come up with one of the most kick ass music mobile phones this year.

The Samsung SGH F480 is IMHO the most attractive Samsung mobile phone to date. It comes bundled with innovative features such as smile detection, a feature that is quickly becoming popular with point and shoot digital cameras. But what makes the F480 truly shine is the support for drag and drop widgets.