Samsung Omnia Turns White, iPhone 3G Might Get Jealous

Samsung's latest iPhone 3G fighter, namely the Omnia i900, will be soon released in a new white color version, according to several rumors appeared on the Web. You might say that this is obviously a move aimed at stealing some of the success the white iPhone 3G has, and you'd probably be right.

Although there's nothing official to come from Samsung (yet) regarding the white Omnia, a mobile user from Singapore has already bought the Pocket PC in the new color and posted several images with it on the PPCSG Forum.

As you can see in the available pictures, only the back case of Samsung Omnia (and its stylus) has turned white, but the change of look is still a significant one, from the all-black original version.

The white Omnia will apparently be first released in Singapore and, by the end of August, it should also reach other markets. White back case aside, the new Omnia doesn't seem to bring anything different from the original version; thus, it will have the following features: a 3.2 inch TFT touchscreen display with 240 x 400 pixels, 256K colors and handwriting recognition, Windows Mobile 6.1 with a TouchWiz interface, accelerometer, GSM and HSDPA connectivity, GPS, Wi-Fi, a 5 Megapixel camera with auto focus, flash and video recording, full HTML browser, Music and Video players, TV out, document viewer and editor, 8/16GB of internal memory, microSD card support and so forth.

No word yet whether the new white color will dress both the 8GB and the 16GB editions of Omnia or if only one of them gets this treatment - like in the case of the iPhone 3G. Anyway, we'd better wait for Samsung's official announcement regarding the new and "pure" version of Omnia. We'll probably find out then more about the next countries to get the handset - the US should be among them, as AT&T is rumored to carry the high-end Pocket PC starting this fall.