Samsung Launches Samsung Champ and Omnia

Samsung Electronics launched Samsung Champ, its full-touch mobile phone which can function as a Music Player and Omnia Lite, its Windows 6.5 Pro based touch screen phone. 

Samsung Champ (C3303) is a full touch mobile which can function as a Music Player with a 3.5mm ear jack and dual speakers. The Sound Alive 3D effects in the handset claims to produce sound quality for an enriched audio experience in the earphones. The phone comes with Wireless FM and 30 MB internal memory, expandable upto 8GB, allowing users to store music of their choice.

The Samsung Champ comes with a 2.4” QVGA touch screen, 3 page extended menu, Touchwiz Lite 2.0 and a Stylus Pen. Users can customize home screen upto 7 pages and highlight the widgets and applications that they would like to use. Popular widgets include the clock, calendar, my buddies and shortcuts. The phone also offers connectivity to 7 social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Photobucket, Flickr, Friendster, Picassa, and Twitter. Users can upload photos to their social networking sites through Samsung Communities and download content from Samsung Apps. Samsung Champ supports Bluetooth 2.1 and USB 2.0.

In addition, the handset comes equipped with VGA Camera and Image Editor, Advanced Mobile Tracker, SOS Message. The handset has 1000 phonebook and 500 SMS memory and a 1000 mAh memory which offers 12 hours of talk time. The Samsung Champ is priced at: Rs. 4,500.

Based on Windows Mobile 6.5 Pro Edge, Samsung Omnia Lite claims to bring together style, multimedia and business performance in one device. With Windows 6.5 Pro Edge, users can view, edit MS Word, MS Excel, Powerpoint slides and view pdf files and can also enjoy MS Exchange Server Push e-mail .Push email with Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus NoteTraveler support automatic email updates while the user friendly , touch optimized inbox lets the users access emails without a stylus. The MS Active Sync facilitates a sync between the PC and Mobile while the Windows Open OS opens-up a whole new world of applications and games to the users.

The advanced Touch wiz 2.0 UI is simple, graphically rich and finger friendly. The Opera Browser lets the user browse the net, while the 3G connectivity allows users to load documents, songs, photos and more. The one finger zoom of the Omnia Lite enlarges or minimizes pages with a thumb. Omnia Lite is also preinstalled with online widgets like weather, news search and stock. Users can also choose from more than 80 online widgets from the Samsung Widget gallery. The phone is a multimedia companion and provides DiVx and Xivd support with which users can access a range of multimedia features without the necessity for converting files for video player. With DLNA, users can wirelessly send and receive media to other DLNA enabled devices. In addition, the phone comes with a 3 MP camera and 3D photo album.

The 250 MB internal memory of the Omnia Lite is expandable to another 32GB and the 1500 mAH battery provides talktime upto 10 hours. The Samsung Omnia Lite (B7300) is priced at Rs. 17,560. With the launch of Samsung Omnia Lite  and Champ, the  Samsung Touchscreen portfolio is now priced at a range of Rs.4,500 to Rs.40,000.