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On Thursday, Rafe Blandford and I were invited to spend a day with a pre-production Samsung Omnia HD, powered by Symbian OS 9.4 and S60 5th Edition (the previous Omnia had been much lower spec and Windows Mobile-powered). Away from trade show crowds and noise, we were able to really explore the Omnia HD in text, photos and video, so watch for this content over the next few weeks. In this feature I look at the device itself, its form factor and obvious interface characteristics.
"For the (impressive) raw specifications of the Samsung Omnia HD, see our original launch news post here. And here's Rafe's original detailed photo gallery, taken at MWC 2009.
The Omnia HD we were trying out was final hardware and with recent (though not final) firmware. Of note on the software front was that this still had debug code in (so it's potentially going to be even faster) and that many of the third party, licensed extras shown off at MWC weren't installed here. "