Introducing the Samsung B6520 Omnia Pro 5

In June 2010, Samsung announced the launch of several new phones at the CommunicAsia conference in Singapore. One of the newly released phones is the Samsung B6520 Omnia Pro 5. This device, along with its sibling, the Samsung Omnia 4, is the latest generation of Samsung smartphones. The target consumers of this phone are professional businessmen who don’t care much about looks but demand reliable smartphones with built-in business apps. This phone is only available in black.

The dimension of this phone is 116.5mm x 61.8 x 11.5mm. The screen is a 2.4-inch TFT screen with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels and supports up to 65k colors. For navigation, this phone incorporates a fully functional QWERTY keyboard.

Standard mobile phone functions such as SMS, MMS, clock, alarm, calculator, calendar, push email and to-do list are fully supported. Users can choose pre-installed ringtones or use their own MP3 and WAV files as ringtones. Vibration mode is also available in silent mode. This device provides almost unlimited entries for contacts in the phone book section and call logs.

With Windows Mobile 6.5 as the operating system, users can access their emails, social networking sites, chat with instant messages, play games, and enjoy videos and music. The video formats supported by the device are WMV, DivX, H. 263, and H. 264. The phone supports MP3, Poly 40, SP-Midi, SMAF, AAC, AAC+, and WMA formats. Stereo FM radio function is also available. The browser of this phone supports WAP 2.0, xHTML and HTML.

In addition to the media player, some pre-installed programs on this phone are Microsoft Outlook Mobile, Adobe Flash Lite, Voice Memo, T9, and Pocket Office, which support Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, as well as a PDF viewer. Samsung B6520 Omnia Pro 5 has been certified by Sybase Afaria for secure access to business-related applications.

The camera resolution is quite low for a phone of its caliber, only around 2MB or 1600×1200 pixels. However, this phone has some advanced features like face detection, geotagging, smile slot, and Sound Alive technologies to enrich the user experience.

For 2G networks, the phone supports GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900 / GSM 850 and for 3G networks, the phone supports HSDPA 1900 / HSDPA 2100 / HSDPA 900. Please note that the availability of these networks depends on the location and the user service. vendor. For connectivity, the phone is equipped with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Users can also access the Internet with GPRS or WAP, depending on the availability of the service.

The internal memory of this phone is around 200 MB so users are expected to add their own memory card in the card slot so that they can use all the applications of this phone to the fullest. The memory card slot supports micro SD card slot up to 16 GB. Other features of this device are 3.5mm audio jack, GPS with A-GPS support and USB 2.0 port on the chassis. The phone is powered by a standard 1500 mAh lithium-ion battery.

The Samsung B6520 Omnia Pro 5 will be released in Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East, India and Latin America around August 2010. No release date has been revealed for other locations. Samsung has not yet announced the price of this portable device.