New Test: Samsung Omnia II--our first Windows Phone mobile

The new Omnia II is the first smartphone from Samsung to feature Microsoft's updated OS, Windows Mobile 6.5.

With plenty of quality multimedia hardware and exciting features, this handset should appeal to professionals and ordinary consumers alike, who should appreciate the new Windows Phone interface, which is billed as being faster, simpler and easier on the eye than its predecessors. 

It's also more clearly designed for a touchscreen interface to woo the mass market, a tactic has already won Apple, RIM and phones using Google's Android plenty of fans.  After a week of using it every day, here's our verdict on this first example of a handset using Windows Phone.

> Test: Samsung Omnia II

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