Samsung also launching the OmniaLITE touchscreen based on Windows Mobile 6.1 with TouchWiz 2.0 UI. The phone is basically a less advanced version of the Omnia II.The OmniaLITE has a touchscreen display, a 3 Megapixel camera, support for A-GPS, WiFi and a 3D multimedia player. It supports HSDPA networks.

Verizon on Tuesday became the first American carrier to offer the Samsung Omnia. The Omnia will be priced at $249.99, after a $70 mail-in rebate and the signing of a 2-yr contract agreement. The carrier doesn’t provide full specifications for its version of the handset but confirms a very close similarity to the original version previously limited to Europe and Korea. While switching to CDMA and EVDO, the Verizon Omnia continues to carry a 3.2-inch, 400×240 touch display with haptic (vibration) feedback and a customized on-screen keyboard; a touchpad at the bottom lets users control normal d-pad functions without losing precision.

It also provides a five-megapixel camera with an LED flash, Wi-Fi and more advanced media playback than Microsoft offers with support for DivX and XviD video along with regular media formats. Storage isn’t mentioned, but in foreign versions usually combines at least 4GB of built-in storage with a microSDHC card slot.

Samsung just introduced the Haptic 2, and now here is a second touchscreen phone already reviewed by Russian site Mail.ru. The M8800 Pixon is the first known touchscreen cellphone to carry an eight-megapixel camera and carries extra photography features normally reserved for dedicated cameras, including blink and face detection, a wide dynamic color range and image stabilization. Video capture is also sharper than most at a roughly DVD-level 720×480 at full speed.After you jump see the Samsung M8800 movie Demo tour

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A report published over the weekend has revealed a new smartphone from ASUS, a relative newcomer to the full-touchscreen handset game.The unofficial specs for the quad-band GSM phone reveal it will not use the North American WCDMA frequency, only supporting 900MHz, 1900MHz and 2100MHz. Believed to wear the Zest name when it launches, the phone will feature a 3.5-inch touchscreen with an 800×480 resolution and ASUS’ custom Glide 1.5 interface running on Windows Mobile 6.1.This ASUS full-touchscreen handset seems like Samsung Omnia

The report alleges the phone will launch sometime in October, although launch countries and regions as well as pricing are unknown.