Windows Phone Thoughts - Daily News, Views, Rants and Raves

Dutch site allaboutphones.nl (link points to the Google translation) spent a little time playing with Samsung's new Omnia Pro IV that was launched last week, and came off with some quick impressions - "quick", "keyboard felt nice", and "a bit boring" pretty much sums it up. Still, if you're looking for a budget handset that your CIO insists has to be on WM, this ought to be on your shopping list.

The Omnia Pro 4 and 5 are refreshes of tried and true designs, and if they're not sporting the latest and greatest - WP7 is due in just 4 months, fingers crossed - there's still a market for that (specs courtesy of Slashgear). The Pro 4 is a quadband GSM/dual band HSDPA phone, featuring a 2.6" 320x320 screen, 3.2MP AF camera and AGPS. The Pro 5 on the other hand is that relative rarity these days - it has no touchscreen, prefering instead a 2.4" QVGA screen, quadband GSM and triband HSDPA, 2MP camera and AGPS. Availability is expected to be by July and August, respectively. Not interested? Didn't think so.