Samsung Primera Revealed, Has It All…

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Feeling a distinct sense of deja-vu… Early June, everyone is getting excited about what Apple has in store for us with the iPhone 3G, and BOOM! With the force of a neutron bomb, Samsung comes out of left field with the Omnia on the same day.

5 megapixel camera, 3.2 inch haptic touchscreen, DivX, a suitably epic website etc. etc… We were understandably excited by the prospect of this phone being released, stealing a march on the popular iPhone. Then June came and went. July rolled around, the iPhone 3G was released and still no Omnia!

People are buying up the new iPhone in droves, so what does Samsung do? Leaks another amazing handset, practically making the Omnia obselete before it is even released.

GSMArena showcases the i8510 Primera as more of a U900 Soul offshoot, a slider handset with full keypad and a host of buttons rather than a touchscreen affair. A welcome change, Samsung sticking to what it is good at rather than trying to directly compete with the iPhone. This is the most stacked machine witnessed by Omio, with every single box double-ticked for features.

The Primera runs on Symbian and sports an 8-megapixel camera, a 2.8 inch QVGA screen and a dedicated 3D graphics accelerator to run things games-wise. Wi-fi and Bluetooth connectivity, GPS, slow motion video recording at 120 frames per second, 3G and HSDPA data transfer, and it comes in either 8 or 16GB sizes depending on the need for space.

Just like the Omnia had the innovative feature of DivX certification, the Primera adds to this with 5.1 surround sound audio through a standard headphone jack, allowing your movies to make you completely deaf as well as blind with the amazing visuals.

The only shortcoming? An LED flash as opposed a xenon affair, hardly damning. That means this phone is good. Very good. Samsung, please, please actually release the phone this time, rather than tantalise us into abstaining from the iPhone’s sinful ways with no promise of delivering. We would definitely save ourselves for the Primera.

Photos…look out below!