14 DAY TRIAL // South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung stated a while ago that it planned to come to the market in the near future with some devices in the Omnia series that would run under Android, yet it seems that the company is a little late to the party, as others have already managed to put the Google operating system inside an Omnia i900.
However, the development of the Android build for the Samsung Omnia is not in its final stages, and a series of problems still need to be solved, including a variety of touch glitches or some missing hardware functionalities. Even so, the handset is able to boot up in the Google operating system, which is a big step forward.
The Samsung Omnia, as many of you already know, comes to the market with a large 3.2-inch touchscreen, coupled with a 5-megapixel photo snapper, while being powered by a 624MHz application processor. Although released last year, the handheld still has a lot of hardware goodies to offer, and it seems that the aforementioned people got tired of seeing it running under the old Windows Mobile 6.1, and moved towards a new software solution for it.
If you are willing to try out the software build, you will find all the details on it here. The best part in this, it seems, is that the phone won't need to be flashed to try the Android on it, as it can be installed on a memory card.
Those who own a Samsung Omnia and are interested in learning how the phone would look like with Android on it are welcome to test it. As soon as some drivers for the build and some of the bugs it currently has are fixed, all should go smoothly. All that remains to be seen is when Samsung decides it is high time to add an Android-powered phone to the Omnia family, especially since it got bigger lately.