There’s a lot to talk about and a lot of testing to do. Here are some of the posts i’m planning to complete very soon.

• Overview of the Omnia Pro range.  Note the OmniaPRO B7330 and B7320  news from yesterday… “Within the OmniaPRO lineup, the OmniaPRO B7610 is the premium device”
• First impressions
• A video overview of the user interface
• A video overview of web browsing using Opera 9.5
• A post about the keyboard, both hard and software-based.
• A post about the media player experience including video performance testing and the connected home feature.
• Full review.

If you have any other burning desires, let me know in the comments.

One week away from the desk…

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I have some unboxing photos ready for you in the next post but first I wanted to report that I’ve successfully changed the language from Dutch to English. There’s also an English manual included so if you really can’t wait for the Omnia Pro in your country and you’re happy with QWERTY and English language, buy one from Holland!

Update: Other languages available through TouchWiz. (They take about 10 minutes to install)

English, French, Italian, German, Russian, Norwegian, Dutch, Czech, Greek, Spanish, Portugese, Finnish, Danish, Polish, Swedish. Lots of options there, just don’t let your mate get hold of your Omnia Pro and switch it to Greek

I have a busy afternoon/evening ahead of me due to an Archos press conference and a live session I’m doing at UMPCPortal later so I may not get to make a short presentation video as soon as I had hoped but I’ll try and get some pics/video/thoughts out before the evening is up.

I have had it in my hand but still havent turned it on. It takes a lot of will power to write a blog post before diving in to a gadget like this!

Update: Vodafone have removed the product from their website.

Vodafone Germany held their press conference at IFA today and a quick look at the status of the Omnia Pro on their website confirms that it’s moved from ‘coming soon’ to available.

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149 for a 2 year commitment is certainly not cheap but if you’re coming up for renewal time, like i am, it’s quite tempting. Availability is mid Spetember (just a few weeks away.)

Vodafone product page.

Peshir, the twitterer that’s waiting for his Omnia Qwerty (as it’s known in Holland) is counting down the hours on his blog.

He’s promised to provide info via Twitter and his blog and that action starts very soon.

“I should still have ot delivered to my hands on friday” he says.

Keep us posted Peshir!

Its happened! The Omnia Pro is finally available…in Holland…as the Omnia Qwerty. It launched alongside the Omnia II at the ‘Miljonair Fair‘ on Saturday and was available as of yesterday. There were a few lucky bloggers present to capture the action on Saturday although not much information yet.

Allabouphones.nl have a brief report of hands-on time but don’t really have much detail to report. They say that the demo version didn’t have the final firmware but that it was fast. Phew! They have some nice pics too.

Samsung Omnia Qwerty

Ron Smeets of MobileCowboys was also lucky enough to get some lens-time with the Qwerty. Hopefully he’ll get a review device very soon so keep an eye on that website.

At the very least we now know it’s real, pricing is ranging from about 430-450 Euro and by the end of the week, maybe even by the end of Wednesday, we should be getting hands-on information from owners. We should also have the hands-on reports from people using the N900 at Nokia World so it’s going to be fun to comapare YouTube vids!

Here’s one Dutch twitterer that’s waiting for his Omnia Qwerty!

Me,  i’m working on getting one to review here on MyOmniaPro but haven’t had confirmation yet.