Three new Verizon handsets leaked: Samsung Omnia and Saga, HTC Touch Pro
Finally, a little more holiday love from the jolly red giant. Sure the BlackBerry Storm will be out before Santa rolls around this year but it’s always nice to have options – especially since the Storm’s touchy clicky screen will surely not appeal to everyone. Worry not, it looks like the boys in red have a few treats for you. First up, the Samsung Omnia. Pictured above sporting a Verizon Wireless boot screen, the Omnia is one of Samsung’s answers to the, dare we say, iPhone. Optical mouse, nice big touchscreen, Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro, 5 megapixel camera, GPS, 8 GB of internal memory… You know the drill. Next up, the HTC Touch Pro. There’s no way that Verizon would let Sprint have all the QWERTY HTC fun. Interesting to note that the image (after the jump) shows the Touch Pro with a standard Windows Mobile today screen – what a massive fail that would be! Expect pricing right around $300 to fall in line with Sprint’s offering. Last, and least, is the Samsung i770 Saga. We found out that the i770 was coming to Verizon earlier this month and it will replace the aging i760. The d-pad / mouse mode setup is kind of cool but we doubt we’d opt for it over the Touch Pro or Omnia. There you have it people – hit the jump for a pic of Verizon’s Touch Pro and Saga.
Dudes! I sent this in to BGR in January, and they just post it now? Damn!
Well in USA there are more CDMA subs than GSM so to take advantage of that it makes sense for Samsung and every other manufacturer to sell both. So I will say watch out for VZ once LTE is adopted cuz then the same tech designed for european and asian phones will be available in the US
It makes more sense for Samsung and other manufactures to sell more GSM phones though, despite the US market. The split between GSM/UMTS and CDMA is 80/20. Much more money in GSM/UMTS.
Verizon’s at a significant disadvantage for LTE though as it’s more of an evolution of WCDMA and UMTS. They’ll essentially have to redeploy a brand new network, which will be good and bad. The bad is that it’ll cost a lot more and it’ll be a tech they’re less familiar with, so I’d expect more issues on Verizon’s side than on AT&T’s. The good will be that it’ll all be brand new and you won’t have a company like AT&T trying to do their new system on the cheap and trying to reuse older stuff.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens when there’s a level playing field on the tech. I don’t know that Verizon will be able to cripple their phones as they have been and they won’t be able to nickel and dime their customers so much. They might have to change their slogan from “We never stop screwing you” to something else.
dam verizons got an allstar lineup!my contract ended and my dad says we can go over to da verizon store and get anyfone i want whenever i want so im thinking of waiting till the storm comes out wat fone do u ppls think i should get by da way im 14
Whatever your mom or dad will buy you.
It’s about damn time!!! (Saga)…
I sent this info to BGR in like May 2006!! *rolls eyes*
@ TRV$ – Now with all the other posts you see our point right. People have been sending this in to BGR since January, with pics, so it’s not like we’re upset about bragging rights. BGR asks for tips so they can be the first to report certain stories so if we send them in and it doesn’t come up then what’s the point you know. And I know they get tied down but at least 10 people sent this in so they could’ve reporeted it and did the usual thanks guys post it would’ve been fine. They didn’t even have to mention us but rather get the information out. They didn’t need to wait until phonearena put it up and take their pics to put up. Defeats the purpose you know.
On to other matters. The Verizon version of the Touch Pro (6850) will have the same specs as the Sprint version, it will include TouchFlo as well as wifi. Even my 6700 has wifi so I don’t think they’ll omit it here. The OMNIA will initiall have only the 8gb version available but i hope they release the 16gb also, which i doubt. I hope it has wifi also, which would be great. The Storm or the OMNIA is the way to go at the end of the day, unless you’re business centric then you get the Touch Pro but specs wise it gets trumped by the other two. Then again it is a Windows Mobile phone so the its capabilities are are a bit above that of the Storm so it depends on preference.
@ mike. re read what i said. i said how many.
i never said they had none.
i would much rather use a wifi then pay 30 bucks a month for a data package. When the only times i would ever get onto the net with the phone i’d be within wifi areas.
To me gps doesn’t matter. I don’t travel out of my area. And if i do just use a map and signs.
yeah,. its still uglier though =p
@TRV$
Haha.. I work for Verizon and I could care less about bragging rights.
It’s the fact that not only a couple of us, but ALL of you guys could have known about it 2 weeks ago and had to wait all this time. With that being said, it’s not a HUGE deal to me because either way, I already had the scoop. Like I said, just figured other people would want to know in a timely fashion as well.
Thoughts on taking the plunge with the Diamond or Storm vs holding out one more generation? I still think the next gen in a few months will the HD or equivalent. May be worth the wait – especially to avoid regret…
I have Verizon and Travle the World and get service everywhere! Places where my dad doesnt with AT&T because i have a CDMA/GSM phone! I LOVE Verizon! My dad switch yesterday to Verizon! Got a BlackBerry World Edition.
http://www.samsungmobileusa.com/Omnia.aspx
Here’s the official US Verizon version.