Samsung's Omnia Pro B7610 previewed

At a glance, Samsung's recently-announced Omnia Pro B7610 seems like a sweet hunk of Windows Mobile love -- especially if you're cross-shopping it with the Touch Pro2 -- but is there more than meets the eye? GSMArena recently put a prerelease unit through its paces, and it's not a perfect situation by any stretch; first off, apparently not very pretty in the flesh, owing in part to its girth and in part to the weird red battery cover. The resistive touchscreen isn't great and the OLED display washes out in sunlight (as they typically do), but on the plus side, the QWERTY keyboard is said to be stellar and it seems that Sammy's done a great job of completely concealing WinMo 6.1's sad, sagging skin with TouchWiz. In the final analysis, the site concludes that the phone easily matches the high bar set by the Touch Pro2 -- strong words considering HTC's market dominance and the fact that we're still looking at a prototype Omnia Pro here, so this should get even more interesting.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2009 7:53PM]

This is what will replace the Verizon Samsung Glyde very soon.

[EpsilonNot Posted Jul 24th 2009 9:38PM]

Are you sure? The device described in the article is GSM... :P

Though, a CDMA version? Why not, anything (really, pretty much anything) would be better than the Glyde...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 25th 2009 10:15AM]

Yeah, it going to be same as this, but I don't think it will have Windows Mobile on it. We won't call it the Pro or glyde 2, but there are already pictures out there.

It has the same screen and everything.

http://new-cell-phone.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/verizon-samsung-glyde-2-cell-phone.jpg

[EatMoreBread Posted Jul 26th 2009 12:25AM]

I'm sure others have made this comment, but... that theme looks very similar to the new Blackberry theme...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 27th 2009 3:11AM]

I thought WinMo is ancient! No?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 8th 2009 3:10PM]

finally something to replace my F700

[sit2k Posted Oct 8th 2009 6:07PM]

in what way is windows mobile ancient? no one has built a better os till now and they just launched 6.5..

if you're looking for eye candy, a full fledged os like windows mobil is not your speed, you need one of those crappy locked down and limited phone like android or iphone. even pre has filecoaster and preware now and it doesnt need to be jailbroken.