Would you know a bottom if you saw one? - Kevin Delaney, WSJ
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Pictures of Samsung Omnia 7 and LG Optimus 7
BEYOND HTC's three handsets available now and a fourth later this year UK consumers can also choose between the LG Optimus 7 and the Samsung Omina 7.
Pictured below is the LG handset. The Optimus 7 is exclusively with the Vodafone network and comes free on a £30, 24 month contract. With that users get 600 minutes, unlimited texts and 500MB of mobile data.
The handset has a 3.8-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen, a 5MP camera that has a panoramic mode for stitching together a full 360-degree landscape scene, a 1500mAh battery and 16GB of storage. Like other Windows Phone 7 handsets it has a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 576MB of RAM and 512MB of ROM, but unlike other devices the Optimus 7 comes with augmented reality and Voice-to-Text.
Below is the Samsung Omni 7, which is available on the Three, Orange and T-Mobile networks. The Omnia 7 has a 4-inch super AMOLED touch screen, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 8GB storage capacity, a 5MP camera like other Windows Phone 7 handsets, and like the Optimus 7 a 1500mAh battery.
Both handsets are available from 21 October. µ
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You say "Under the hood they're the same" and "unlike other devices the Optimus 7 comes with..." Pardon?
Are the differences any good, or are they just bulking out the list of feature points?
I'm just waiting for Steam on Android, and only then will services like that make sense and gain some real importance.
Not to mention that it makes more sense for most gamers to have a real, customizable OS with real multitasking and a big marketplace. And that just isn't W7...
Microsoft's latest "genius" marketing catch-phrase is "Be here now", implying that their phones are designed to be used quickly and forgotten about, allowing you to attend to "real life" matters.
Ya, that is why they are putting Xbox games on these phones, as well as "Zuney-toons" music that allows you to blot out all audio communication with the "real world". Don't think the marketing boys thought that one out all the way. Perhaps the hilarious comedy team of Jerry Seinfeld and his talking wonder-muppet Bill Gates can bail them out (almost worked last time).
I'm taken back by the lack of Transformers reference, seeing as the phone is Optimus 7 in which 7 is a prime number.
However the 'under the hood' reference might have been a little too obscure for such.