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27 September 2011 - 09:32 AMT

Samsung introduces its first Windows Phone Mango smartphone

Samsung Electronics unveiled the Omnia W smartphone, its first smartphone to run on the updated Mango version of Windows Phone, CNET reported.

Samsung plans to launch the Omnia W in Italy starting late next month, and eventually through Europe, Latin America, Southeast, and Southwest Asia.

Based on its specifications and hardware, the phone is more of a mass-market device. The Omnia W has a 1.4GHz processor, 512MB of memory, 8GB of storage, and a 3.7-inch Super AMOLED display.

It has a 5-megapixel auto-focus camera with LED flash in the rear, and a front-facing VGA camera for video calls. It also allows for 720p video recording and playback. Other features that are standard in smartphones now are Wi-Fi, Bluetooth capabilities, an accelerometer, and light, proximity, magnetometer, and gyroscope sensors.