We finally got a good, hard look at the Verizon-customized version of Samsung’s Omnia II, and we’ve got good news and bad news: the good news is that the phone’s a darker, more reasonable shade in person than it was in that press shot we’d seen before, but the bad news is that we’ve confirmed it’s running 6.1. Anyone daring to release a 6.1 phone at this point is at serious risk of getting laughed out of the room unless they offer an upgrade path mere minutes afterwards, so we’re hoping that by the time this is on shelves, it’ll either be running 6.5 out of the box or there’ll be an update program announced in conjunction with the release. Otherwise, the display’s absolutely phenomenal (indoors, anyhow) and TouchWiz seems to work as well as it did on the original model, though scrolling through menus got a bit laggy at times — isn’t it kinda weird that a years-old platform can practically max out a circa-2009 device? Check out a quick gallery below.
Samsung Omnia II for Verizon in the flesh, Windows Mobile 6.1 on board originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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