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What’s the Deal With The Omnia II?
The Omnia II originally released in Canada with Bell, the official wireless provider for the up and coming 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, last month. But now, Verizon has decided to scoop it up for an official US release and a hopeful date of December 2nd. The handsets will be available everywhere, online and in stores.

What’s Under the Hood of the Omnia II?
To start, it sports the largest of the MVGA AMOLED touchscreens, at 3.7″ and the video quality is said to be of DVD standards at 480p. The camera is 5 megapixel and the handset also sports most of the usual culprits like Bluetooth 2.0, GPS, a-GPS, accelerators, and can run apps such as Office and Excel. As for internal memory, it has built in 8GB and an microSD slot for expandable storage up to 32GB. It was rumored the Omnia II would be running the WinMo 6.1, but that’s been tabled since the release of 6.5, and the Omnia II will be running the WinMo 6.5 Professional platform and it also has TouchWiz 2.0. As usual, there is a 2 year contract and a $100 mail-in rebate making the price(after rebate and contract) $199.99Bell’s Omnia has an extra built right into it. Because it is an official sponsor of the Winter Games 2010, it includes WOW, or Winter Olympics Works, a communication and news system geared solely towards the Olympics, at no extra charge.

What’s the Deal With the Incognito?
Sprint has decided to pick up Kyocera’s Incognito, just in time for the holiday’s and will be launching it officially on November 30, online only. In-Outlet sales are expected to begin on December 6th. This cute little clamshell of a phone has a 2.6″ OLED display with 320×240 resolution, a 2 megapixel camera, and the revealing full QWERTY keypad is haptic, letting you know when you have pressed a button correctly, and it glows, for emailing and messaging in dark or badly lit areas. The phone is 3G ready running on a EVDO network and comes complete with the major social networking site applications built in and ready to go. New service for this phone will cost just $50 after a $50 mail in rebate ad, of course, the required 2 year contract.

And The Verdict Is
I personally can’t wait for the Omnia II to hit. It’s about time the US gets another really good phone released here that is actually worth the price (and is not an iPhone). As for teh Kyocera, I think the incognito, with a price like that should have been picked up by Metro PCS, or Cricket maybe…

But then again, you don’t really hear about Kyocera as being a great phone BECAUSE it is linked with those carriers. No one wants to talk about them because they are not high end. I just wish these dealers would give up the contract thing, I mean are the phones really worth that much with out a contract? I don’t think so. As they are being released within a few days from each other I think the Omnia II will win this race out. It is a Smartphone, after all and Kyocera doesn’t really get too much attention because this particular model is a clamshell, not a Smartphone like the Omnia II.

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