Très représenté sur Android, Samsung n'abandonne pourtant pas Windows Phone et annonce le Samsung Omnia M sous Windows Phone Mango.

Complément d'information

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  Samsung Omnia W : prix du smartphone Windows Phone Mango
  Le smartphone Samsung Omnia W est désormais disponible en France. L'occasion d'en découvrir le prix de vente.
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  Samsung Omnia 7 : smartphone 4 pouces sous Windows Phone 7
  L'environnement Windows Phone 7 ayant été officialisé par la firme de Redmond, c'est l'occasion de découvrir les terminaux mobiles qui en seront équipés, à l'image du Samsung Omnia 7.

Le marché US est un espace à conquérir pour Nokia, qui n'a jamais vraiment pu s'y installer. Le fabricant finlandais compte sur Windows Phone et son dernier modèle haut de gamme, le Nokia Lumia 900, pour séduire le public nord-américain.

Distribué par l'opérateur AT&T, le Lumia 900 est aussi un smartphone compatible avec le réseau 4G LTE de ce dernier, bénéficiant ainsi du très haut débit mobile. Mais cette présence précoce pourrait vite se voir contrée par l'arrivée d'un autre smartphone Windows Phone / LTE issue de la concurrence.


 Samsung vient en effet d'annoncer l'arrivée du Samsung Focus 2, également chez AT&T, et constituant son premier modèle Windows Phone compatible LTE. Il s'agit d'un smartphone doté d'un affichage 4" Super AMOLED et épais de 10,98 mm.

Il embarque au dos un APN 5 megapixels capable d'enregistrement vidéo 720p et un APN frontal pour la visioconférence, avec des fonctions de dictée vocale pour la prise de message sans manipuler l'appareil. Sous Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, on retrouve les services de la plate-forme de Microsoft, ainsi que l'espace de stockage distant SkyDrive.

Et si le Samsung Focus 2 se positionne plutôt en milieu de gamme par rapport au Lumia 900, son prix de vente est fixé à 50 dollars seulement avec la prise d'un abonnement mobile. Déjà dominateur sur Android, le fabricant coréen ne lâche rien sur les autres plates-formes et devrait avoir du répondant à la sortie de Windows Phone 8.

Après être devenu leader mondial des smartphones et premier sur Android, Samsung se verrait bien sûrement bien aussi premier sur Windows Phone, titre encore détenu par Nokia.

Samsung has a projector phone or two in its portofolio, but what about tablets with projectors? That hasn’t been done by any company as far as I know, so the market is open. Laura Hong and Charles de Belizal envisioned a projector tablet and called it the Samsung Galaxy One, that you can see below.

This device measures 14mm in thickness, packs a projector, Windows 8, an aluminum body and brushed aluminum feet. The Galaxy One has two “feet”, that help prop it up in media viewing position if you want to watch movies and also prepare it to project data during a business meeting, for example. It has a great projection angle and the projector is incorporated right above the camera sensor, that also includes a flash. A stylus is also in the mix and the Metro UI seems to fit right in with this Samsung tablet concept.

The virtual QWERTY keyboard also looks comfortable and I guess it’s part of the design, since it doesn’t resemble the standard input method in Windows 8. From what I can see here, the projector can rotate depending on the position you want it to assume, while using the tablet to show stuff at a meeting. The stylus is small and discrete and also reminds me of the S Pen a bit. Since this is a Windows 8 machine I imagine it would cost quite a bit… how much would you spend for it?

Well, since the first Galaxy Note was actually a bigger Galaxy S II, why wouldn’t the Samsung Galaxy Note II be a larger Galaxy S III? The new design you see here comes from Bob Freking, who I asked to imagine the next Galaxy Note and this is what came out.

We’ve got a smartablet with rounded edges, front camera, potent camera at the back, stylus and elongated Home button. It’s also a pretty wide device, so the diagonal may even increase. Samsung Galaxy Note 2 features a quad core Exynos 1.8 GHz processor, but it may also be that new ARM Cortex A15 chip they’re developing right now. An increase to 5.5 inches is also expected by Bob Freking, as well as a jump to 1080p HD AMOLED screen or maybe even a higher resolution.

Galaxy S III comes with the nature-based UX, so I guess the same idea would come here, but with a twist associated to the S Pen, or maybe the S Pen II. You know what would be extremely cool? If the stylus was also a headset, like on the ASUS PadFone, or even cooler: a thicker stylus with AAA batteries, that serves as pico projector. How do you like that?

If you’re looking into the future and searching for the Samsung Galaxy S IV handset, then Alexander Black may have an insight into that. He teased you all a couple of days ago and now it’s time to unveil… the Samsung Galaxy Aurora. The project is not done, since he plans to mix Android 5.0 in this piece of work and some modular stuff.

A follow-up project is also coming. As far as the Samsung Galaxy Aurora is concerned sees when you’re resting your eyes and goes into auto sleep mode. It also comes with a reliable assistant, the S Voice function that works beautifully. The handset will also “know” you’re at the movies and silence itself automatically. Its screen is heat resistant and the new Galaxy model packs a rotating 12 megapixel camera, available for all the angles of stunning photos you can imagine.

There’s also a holographic 3D function, that’s showcased in the last image below and it looks like a real battery drainer this one. Galaxy Aurora knows your touch by the heat you emanate and finally here are some more features to feast on: quad core 2 GHz processor, wireless router chip build in, 4G connectivity, 35 mAh rechargeable battery (does he mean 3500 mAh?) with 20-22 hours of talk time. To me this model looks like a combo between the Nokia N9 and a more rectangular Samsung Galaxy Nexus, if you want. What do you say?

[Thanks Alexander Black!]