14 DAY TRIAL // Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless announced last week that it would make the Windows Mobile 6.5-powered Samsung Omnia II available for purchase as soon as December 2 is here, and the carrier already placed the device up for grabs on its website. Expected to arrive at Big Red ever since September, the touchscreen-enabled phone brings appealing features to users, among which we can count the Swype technology that offers users the possibility to type up to 50 words per minute.
The handset can now be purchased from the carrier's website for $199.99 upon the signing of a two-year contract agreement. Moreover, Big Red also chose to include the device in its very popular Buy One Get One Free promotion, offering users the possibility to get a new handheld for free on a two-year contract, as long as they sign such a contract agreement for each of the gadgets.
The specifications list of Samsung Omnia II is something that most of you should already be familiar with, yet we ought to mention some of the most important characteristics of the phone. It comes with a 3.7-inch WVGA touchscreen display, a 5-megapixel photo snapper with flash and video recording capabilities, Opera Mobile Browser, Bing Search, FM Radio, Wi-Fi connectivity, 3.5mm Headset Jack, GPS, 8GB of internal memory, microSD card slot with support for up to 16GB of space, RSS Reader, and Bluetooth 2.0.
“The oversized touch screen gives you plenty of room to take advantage of premium multimedia features like creating and editing videos, the DivX video player offers high quality playback that makes dramatic use of the brilliant AMOLED display, Wi–Fi access and built–in widgets for Facebook and MySpace are tools for a networking genius. Add in Visual Voice Mail, Microsoft Office Mobile, full consumer and corporate email support, and the Omnia II gives you smarter ways to work, socialize and communicate, all in one stroke” is how Verizon describes the handset.
We should also mention that the features list of the phone includes support for V CAST Music with Rhapsody (subscription, wireless and PC downloads), V CAST Video on Demand, VZ Navigator, Visual Voice Mail, Mobile Email and Mobile IM, and more.