My Omnia Pro

Thanks to the responsiveness and flexibility of the nice people at Smartphoneshop.nl, I’ve secured myself an Omnia Pro (actually a Dutch Omnia Qwerty – navigating that will be fun until I can get an English ROM onto it!)  that I’ll be picking up tomorrow afternoon. The N900 is still on the list but this is a device I need to buy for my work on my mobile computing websites. It would have been silly not to buy one having put so much work into this blog and as the MID and smartphone sector are meeting in the middle now, I need to brush up on my sub 4″ screen and mobile operating system skills! Well at least that’s how i’m justifying it to myself. (How will you justify yours!)

What it means is that I’ll be knocking out a lot of detailed posts and videos over the coming weeks and paying closer attention to the MyOmniaPro forums to answer your questions. You can expect an unboxing video tomorrow, a first impressions post, a photo shoot and then, later in the week, a live hands-on session (possibly on Friday) where I go over some details on the device in a live video and chat session. You’ll be able to ask me questions about the device and i’ll run a few live tests. E.g. browsing speed and accuracy, video playback performances,  keyboard tests etc. If  i’m lucky, my partner in online video crime, JKK from JKKMobile.com will join me with his HTC Touch Pro2 and Nokia N97. It will be the perfect shootout so bring a beer and enjoy the fun. I’ll confirm the date and time for this later in the week.

Note: Next week I am in San Fransisco at the Intel Developer Forum learning about the latest MID / Phone developments from Intel. You can follow all the news from IDF over at MIDMoves.com.