We first officially heard of the Samsung Omnia II way back in June when we pondered if it would be making its way onto Verizon Wireless. Well today we have official confirmation that the device will in fact hit Verizon at a currently unannounced date.

As you can see above, this Omnia II features a slight hardware revision over the one we saw back in June. No, it doesn’t have an updated camera or anything but it does do away with the cubic center button. Otherwise, the handset features a 3.7-inch AMOLED display, Windows Mobile, and Samsung’s TouchWiz 2.0 UI.

We’ll keep you updated as an official Verizon Wireless release date is made known.

via engadget

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We’ve seen leaked photos and specs and even saw it appear on Samsung’s official website, but what we haven’t had is official confirmation from AT&T that the Samsung Solstice was in fact coming.

Today, AT&T and Samsung have come forth to let us know that their low cost Solstice touchscreen is, in fact, hitting North American shelves on August 2nd. Official specs include a TouchWiz UI, Facebook, Myspace and other social networking software preinstalled. In terms of hardware, we’re looking at a 2MP camera and a microSD slot with 16GB of expandable storage.

The price stays the same as previously though at $99 with a 2-year contract.

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Samsung is going to enter in the mobile application business as it has already made its TouchWiz UI available to developers. Samsung will be working with Yahoo, Google and AccuWeather to offer “rich connected applications” or TouchWiz Widgets to its customers. More developers should arrive in the near future so we might see a whole new range of applications made for Samsung’s TouchWiz phones.

Samsung will work with UI Evolution and it will offer:

… a set of developer tools for Samsung to support the easy development of our rich connected mobile applications. Based upon the Eclipse IDE, developers will have a custom interface allowing them to easily access code samples, FAQ’s, device emulation, and submission of content for sale through the Samsung Rich Connected Application storefront.

The great thing about this new TouchWiz apps is that they will work no matter what the OS will be. Samsung can release Symbian, Windows Mobile or Android phones with TouchWiz on top and the applications will work flawlessly. This sounds like a recipe for success for an app store. I’d be more interested in purchasing applications which can be later on taken to a different OS. Will Samsung succeed in the app store business?

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Those who thought anything but touch would be the future of cell phones must be feeling pretty stupid right now, as Samsung has got the right numbers to prove them wrong.  The Korean manufacturer has recently announced that it has now sold over 5 million units of its popular touchscreen cellphone, the F480 TouchWiz, worldwide and is still shipping out almost 500,000 of these finger favorites every month.  It looks like the TouchWiz UI turned out to be a huge success for Samsung and let’s not forget the fact that the F480 was the first handset to sport it.

We will have to wait and see what kind of figures Samsung will come up with once it starts selling smartphones with that sweet combination of Android and touch we like. (more…)

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Samsung seems ready to upgrade its TouchWiz UI and an official announcement might be made in just a few days in Barcelona. We’re not sure what to expect as Samsung didn’t make it public it yet. We might see more touchscreen haptic feedback, more visual effects, more widgets or apps and definitely some new looks. Samsung touschscreen phone owners what do you think? Do you need a new UI?

via Samsung

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