Bell 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…
Rogers has completed upgrading their Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary and Montreal markets to HSPA+, which means happy users should be receiving blinding 21Mbbs now instead of the paltry 6Mbps. In the words of Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Rogers, John Boynton:
