Samsung has officially launched the Omnia i900 for the European market starting in Italy on July 22. To celebrate the release of its latest all-around mobile phone, Samsung Europe is treating our Italian friends who pre-ordered that Omnia from July 14 with a free Xbox 360 Arcade gaming system. This promotional gig was made possible through a cooperation with Media world, one of Europe’s electronics store.

A few weeks ago, there had been much more information released on the highly anticipated Samsung i900. However, at that time, it still wasn’t known which carrier would be selling this phone, but now, it is rumored that AT&T will be the carrier. The Samsung i900 is set to come with AT&T Music, AT&T Video, more »

There’s no doubt that the iPhone-mania is hitting the web big time. Apple rivals have been trying to steal some publicity hype away from the iPhone by preempting the WWDC announcements where Apple is expected to announce the new iPhone. Take the case of Samsung’s latest mobile phone, the i900. It was not that long ago that rumors about the i900 began to surface. A Chinese site even have a hands-on report with the actual unit. But Samsung, knowing that Apple’s iPhone is about to take the center stage any moment now, decided to officially announced the Samsung i900 which is now also called the Samsung i900 Omnia.

Basically, there hasn’t been a lot of information known about the Samsung i900, just spy shots and some other uninformative pics. However, recently a Chinese website has released some better looking pictures and some more information regarding the Samsung i900.

So far, it is set to come with a 3.5-inch touchscreen display with a 240 x 400 WQVGA resolution, a 5-megapixel camera, quadband GSM, 3G HSDPA with speeds measuring up to 7.2 Mbps, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and 16GB of internal hard disk space. All of these specs seem to be really nice and high end, you can’t really find similar specs in normal, average GPS. Additionally, it comes with a 1500mAh battery, microSD expansion, FM radio, runs on Windows Mobile Professional 6.1, 256 MB of RAM, miniUSB 2.0 connection, TV out, and measures out at 4.40 x 2.20 x 0.51-inches.

The Samsung i900 that we has posted about recently is now being rumored to not be running Windows Mobile as originally expected. Instead, at least according to a confirmation that PhoneMag received, the i900 will run the same OS as the F700v. The i900 is expected to be available this September and feature a 3.5-inch more »