Samsung's Omnia II / GT-I8000 leaks early?

Oh look, something other than a Pre or iPhone... it's Samsung's GT-I8000, or Omnia II / Omnia 2 as it's expected to be known by the time it launches. Spec-counters will want to listen in close 'cause the GT-I8000 comes packing a 3.7-inch WVGA (800 x 480 pixel) AMOLED display (presumably the same display just revealed by Samsung last week) with an 8.1 megapixel camera lit by dual-LEDs capable of recording VGA video at 30fps. The Lithuanian on-line retailer responsible for leaking the specs (which have now been removed) says we'll see a 1500mAh battery powering HSDPA data with a custom "cubic" UI (looking very similar to the UI on the S8000 Jet) riding atop Windows Mobile. With a superior spec-sheet it has to be a superior phone right?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 9th 2009 11:33AM]

This is all very nice but why cant they release it with Android? It'd be sooooo much more exciting that way!

[jasonlackey Posted Jun 9th 2009 11:47AM]

With a superior spec sheet it has to be a superior phone, right?

Sadly this is not really the case now, is it. We keep seeing phones with killer spec sheets that once in hand tend to have some sort of dreadful flaws or usability issues. Most Windows Mobile devices seem to end up this way. I hope that this changes soon, as WinMo can do all sorts of cool things, but 6.1 is starting to be really long in the tooth and I am not particularly fond of the various bung on UI overlays which remind me of the bad old days of Compaq desktops.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 9th 2009 11:48AM]

that screen is going to be insane in the membrane but whats the deal with winmo?! its sooo bad! I just want touchwiz or even anything else. cool lookin phone though

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 9th 2009 8:29PM]

Super sexy sports cars sell perfectly well without the lengthy warranties economy rides can't sell without. What about Palm and Apple then, with their super sexy operating systems, will they ever even need to release a device as be-spec'ed as the one above?