Softbank Mobile also released high-performance smartphones that will be the competing terminals of the iPhone

It was held from 2:00 am on June 10th of Japan timeSteve Jobs keynote lecture at WWDC 2008Since it was officially announced at Apple, Apple's "IPhone 3GAlthough it is SOFTBANK MOBILE, which is scheduled to be released in Japan, it seems that models that will become competing terminals may also be released.

The mobile phone announced on the same day as the iPhone, which is regarded as a competing terminal, is a high-performance smartphone called "OMNIA" which is equipped with full touch screen, GPS, high-quality camera all over and is compatible with all kinds of movie and audio formats.

Details are as follows.
ホットストック：ソフトバンク<9984.T>が伸び悩む、オムニア国内販売は協議中 | マネーニュース | 株式市場 | Reuters

According to this article, Samsung said that it is consulting with Softbank Mobile on Japanese launch of the new smartphone "OMNIA", which is a competing iPhone model. According to negotiations it is said that the release itself may go out, but when it is released in Japan it means that it will be through SOFTBANK MOBILE.

This "OMNIA" is a 3.2-inch wide QVGA full touch panel, a 5 million pixel camera that supports face recognition and camera shake correction, FM radio, Bluetooth, wireless LAN, USB 2.0, GPS, 8 GB or 16 GB internal memory and memory It is a smartphone equipped with a card slot etc, adopt Windows Mobile 6.1 as OS.

In addition to supporting HSDPA with a maximum communication speed of 7.2 Mbps as a communication standard, we also have ambitious terminals compatible with audio formats such as DivX / XviD / H.264 / WMV and audio formats such as MP3 / AAC / WMA / OGG It is getting.

This is "OMNIA". It is also possible to add navigation and position information to the photos with GPS.


When actually released from SOFTBANK MOBILE, it will collide directly with the iPhone, but which one will you win?

For details of OMNIA, the following links are detailed.

SAMSUNG DEBUTS OMNIA - EVERYTHING YOU WISH FOR IN YOUR MOBILE