Bell Samsung Omnia II to be Offical Olympics Phone

bell_samsung_omnia_2_olympics_phoneBell Canada announced last week that the new Samsung Omnia II will be exclusively available on Bell Canada’s brand-new HSPA network and that the Omnia II will be the “Official Mobile Device of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games”.

Aside from fancy wallpaper and some coolness factor, Omnia II buyers will also be able to download Samsung’s Wireless Olympic Works (WOW) communications platform, a free app that provides real-time information to users’ phones during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

Bell’s Omnia 2 specs are pretty nice:

  • Bluetooth v2.0 and WiFi connectivity
  • HTML web browsing with Opera Mobile 9.5 Browser
  • World’s largest (3.7 inch/94mm) WVGA AMOLED touchscreen display with
  • accelerometer
  • Finger friendly TouchWiz(TM) touch-optimized User Interface
  • DVD-quality (480p) video recording/playback
  • 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and dual LED flash
  • The ability to manage documents with applications such as Power Point,
  • Word or Excel
  • Memory expandable to 48 gigabytes

Full press release after the jump…

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Samsung Omnia II With Windows Mobile 6.5

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This nice long video from ai.rs shows Samsung’s Omnia II running Windows Mobile 6.5. Even though the Omnia II launched on Verizon with Windows Mobile 6.1, the Omnia II is in line for an upgrade. This video shows the Omnia II running Windows Mobile 6.5 and TouchWiz, Samsung’s UI replacement. TouchWiz appears to be quite expansive, with customized Windows UI screens right down to the little settings windows.

Anyone hear whether Verizon is offering an upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.5 for current Samsung Omnia II users?

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