Austria rarely has technology shows worth visiting – Reed Exhibition’s ITnT is considered best-of-batch. Samsung was there…but did they show anything new?
As usual, the boys had a huge booth…but weren’t too focused on mobiles.
The mobile division had a small “booth” in a corner. They featured an i780, an Omnia, an INNOV8 and two dumbphones:
Surprisingly, the i780 and the Omnia are offered for the same price:
Don’t ask me why, but the Omnia has the same (IMHO too large) fonts found on the i780. A bystanding Samsung folk told me that I am in the minority – most customers consider even these obscenely large fonts too small:
Stylus freaks will be shocked to hear that the housing of the box does not contain a stylus silo. The stylus is found inside the protective sleeve, which was not shown…
Finally, here’s a shot of the fancy screen rotation animation:
In the end, the devices were there and were usable. Nothing new was announced though…
P.S. Our sister site TamsS60 has a companion article looking at the S60 side of things…
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