Samsung's Omnia W: A 3.7" Mango-Based Smartphone With A 1.4GHz CPU

I'm guessing that this is an alternative to the Android market smart phones, but like in an earlier Hot Hardware article that mentioned, is that Android seems to have the largest marketshare for itself & is even getting larger. That was the Nielsen stats for August marketshare of operating systems for the smartphone. I think that there is still a market out there for these Windows phone 7 devices, but it seems to be a dieing market though. Although they could of given this Samsung the same specs as their Samsung Galaxy S II did. Then maybe they would have a better share of the market, unless they have already conceded defeat & thought that it was better to go with cheaper parts than to go to the more expensive hardware parts for this articles samsung smartphone.

The Focus S will be close enough in specs to the Sii which will be fine for most users plus anything larger than 4.5" should not be considered a smart phone.

Just my 2 cents.

Those are good points 3lack I don't know although 4.5" I also consider to be the largest I would want for a smart phone others opinion may differ. Some of the other screen designs such as longer but thinner I have seen and others are nice to, but one thing is going with the HD display format, where some of those design go off of the HD screen formatting map. That to me is a bad idea as it is the widest used and known HD (IE:norm) that most consumers are going to relate to.

As far as Windows phone goes they still have a massive chance to get in the market and that is because they own the largest percentage of devices connected to the internet still. One thing you have to consider is that almost every person with a smart phone also has at least one computer. Yes some of them may be Apples but percentage wise that is low (such as 10-12% of the world if that maximum have a MAC), like 60-70% of the world population that owns a computer it is a Windows machine. With Windows 8 the tie in is direct. Your Microsoft Home Group then becomes your personal home network, and has office 365 which is cloud based, an app store etc.

I am not saying Microsoft still owns the world although in home pc's they still hold a very large percentage. The thing is they can tie Windows phone into that very easily. When they get it all worked out home Windows PC's, Notebooks, Phones, Tablets, Office etc will be a package available to anyone. Many consumers have no idea what there choices are beyond Windows. So Windows phone still has an open path to probably 20-30% of all home PC users still.