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Clove’s blog has just announced that, for a limited time, all Samsung Omnia devices will come with a free copy of the excellent-looking NDrive GPS Navigation software for UK and Ireland, worth around £50, preloaded on a 8GB microSD card.

Some great features of the software are:

• 3D aerial photo integration, better than Google – Reality View – See your route as it actually appears with real photos!
• Video quality graphics makes the fastest software in the market
• Simple and easy to use with gesture recognition
• Community features
• Location based services
• Faster search system
• Special Routing for pedestrian and Adventure modes

Supported devices include the Samsung Omnia 2, Samsung Omnia Pro, Omnia Lite, with prices ranging from £195 to £305 for the Omnia 2, which is excellent value.

Read more about this excellent deal at Clove here.

WindowsPhoneReview.com drew our attention to these pictures of the Chinese version of the Samsung Omnia 2, the Samsung i1810C.

The handset retains all the great features of the Samsung Omnia 2, including the great 3.7 inch AMOLED screen, and in addition supports China’s home-grown  TD-SCDMA 3G standard.

Interestingly one of the areas the handset does differ is the “cube” button, which is much broader here and seems to support 2 functions, back and another.

See more at Zol.com.cn

Via WindowsPhoneReview.com, thanks Amrita for the tip.

We have touched on this earlier, but with IDC estimating 18.3 Windows Mobile phones were sold last year, and HTC only selling 11.7 smartphones, that HTC no longer owns more than 50% of the Windows Mobile market.

Now Digitimes Research estimates HTC sold more Android phones phones than Windows Mobile phones, estimating they sold 6 million Android devices.  That would leave 5.7 million Windows Mobile phones, meaning at 31% of the Windows Mobile market HTC is now pretty small potatoes.

Now of course the other 69% could be equally shared between the other 15 OEMs, but a much higher likelihood is that another company ran away with the lion share of the market.

The  best candidate for the crown is Samsung, who impressed with their Omnia range, and IDC notes that the Omnia 2 did particularly well for them.

Of course its sad to see HTC lose dominance of a market they pioneered so long ago, but Samsung has in fact always been more open than HTC when it comes to the internals of their devices, offering SDK’s and developer support quite freely, very much unlike HTC.

What are our reader’s feelings on the matter?  Let us know below.

Samsung has launched the headlining Giorgio Armani Windows Mobile handsets in India. The premium handset was launched at an event attended by former Miss India and Bollywood actress Sonal Chauhan along with Ranjeet Yadav, director, IT and telecom, Samsung Electronics, at an event in Mumbai.

The tilt-screen device will launch with Windows Mobile 6.5 on board and of course features a 3.5 inch WVGA AMOLED screen and 5 megapixel camera. It also has 8 GB built-in and microSB expansion.

Giorgio Armani, President and CEO of Giorgio Armani S.p.A., commented: “Today more than ever, elegant dressing is part of daily business life. When Samsung asked me to design the new business and lifestyle smartphone I decided to use my fashion aesthetic to create it. I simply aim to create a smartphone which is not only an elegant tool but also functional and useful, perfect for today’s managers. The result is a unique smartphone perfectly suited to every moment of one’s business and private day. This is the Armani aesthetic – to combine beauty with function in a simple and timeless way.”

JK Shin, Executive Vice President and head of the Mobile Communications Division at Samsung Electronics, said: “We are delighted to have reached another milestone in the collaboration between Giorgio Armani and Samsung Electronics. This latest-generation mobile masterfully combines our experience in technology with a design from one of the world’s best known designers, and the functions offered by Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system. What’s more, the Giorgio Armani-Samsung smart phone is a demonstration of our commitment to offering customers cutting-edge technology in our products, along with exclusive design and fashion.”

No price has been released, but the handset is expected to launch in the region of 50,000 rupees (around $1,100).

The handset is the result of the third collaboration between the phone manufacturer and fashion house.

Read more at Telecomtalk.info.

Via Fonearena.com

Samsung Apps store has now expanded from UK to many more countries.

Now Germany, Singapore, Brazil and China , France and Italy will be able to get access to games and applications like Guitar Hero from Mobile Bus, Need for Speed from Electronic Arts, Spiderman from Gameloft and other big names, all localized to their language.

From mid-February, the Samsung Store will come preinstalled on devices sold in Germany and Singapore.  To add the store to a current device visit samsungmobile.com and download the client there.

Read more at GSMArena here.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., today announced two high-density memory solutions for mobile devices. The new storage solutions – a 64-gigabyte (GB) moviNAND^TM memory device and a 32GB micro secure digital (microSD) memory card – satisfy mobile handset designers’ requirements for advanced compact high-density memory.

“Samsung’s high-density memory solutions bring the storage capacity levels of computing systems to small, mobile devices,” said Dong-Soo Jun, executive vice president, memory marketing, Samsung Electronics.

He added, “The 64GB embedded memory, moviNAND, and the 32GB microSD card each greatly expand the data storage density of mobile devices, meeting customers’ memory requirements and ushering in a new era of mobile and IT device capacity growth.”

The memory solutions are based on Samsung’s advanced 32 gigabit (Gb) NAND flash. The 64GB moviNAND, which measures 1.4mm in height, consists of 16 30nm-class 32Gb MLC NAND chips and a controller. The 17-die stack was achieved by using 30-micron thick chips and advanced package technology. With the new 64GB solution, Samsung’s proprietary embedded memory, moviNAND, is now available in 64GB, 32GB, 16GB, 8GB and 4GB densities.

The 32GB microSD card, developed this month, stacks eight 32Gb NAND components and a card controller. The industry’s highest capacity, production-ready microSD card is enabled by the use of Samsung’s advanced 30-nm class 32Gb NAND flash memory technology. Previously, the highest density microSD card in production had a 16GB capacity and was based on 40nm-class 16Gb NAND. The new 32GB card is 1mm-thick. The portion of the card that is inserted into a handset measures just 0.7 mm in height.

Samsung’s new 64GB moviNAND has been in mass production from December 2009, while the 32GB microSD is now being sampled with OEMs, with mass production expected next month.

Comment: It has been extremely long in coming, and while our phones have had theoretical 32 GB capacity for years 16 GB has been the practical limit.  Here’s looking forward to finally carrying my whole music collection with me.

Via Phonescoop.com

The Omnia II is just about the most into it, app filled device I have ever used that had the pleasure to run Windows Mobile. The list of preinstalled apps are never ending and I just enjoy going through them and discovering something I have not used before. The video is just showing some of the good apps(they are all good) like the voice command, which is surprisingly good, even though my voice is hard to understand, and it takes no setting up at all. The other app that was talked about is the video editor that I love to use, it takes both your images, videos and song and puts everything together in the way you would like, and then make it into a MP4 format video with little memory used.

Enjoy