Verizon Wireless officially announced a new hot touchscreen phone after they dazzled the masses with the BlackBerry Storm. Now Verizon offers the Samsung Omnia Windows Smartphone starting today at their site.

Verizon Wireless has priced the Samsung Omnia for $249.99 after a $70 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement.
The Samsung Omnia is an all-in-one smartphone with state-of-the-art features, including Samsung’s innovative TouchWiz™ user interface which has specially designed widgets to customize and personalize the way customers use the phone. These bright and colorful icons provide a one-touch access point to customers’ favorite and most commonly used applications and features. The Samsung Omnia also features a full on-screen QWERTY keyboard for fast text messaging, mobile IM and e-mail messages.
Key features and capabilities of the Samsung Omnia from Verizon Wireless include:

• Full HTML Web browser with touch navigation
• Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
  • Access to multiple e-mail accounts with Microsoft Direct Push for corporate users
  • Over-the-air synchronization of contacts, calendars and task lists with Microsoft Exchange Server
  • Supports Microsoft’s System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 that provides customers with software distribution capabilities and security-enhanced access to company data while they are away from the office
• Access to VZAppZone – downloadable games, ringtones, wallpapers and more
• Playback of MP3 files
• VZ Navigator(SM) capability – get visual and audible directions to thousands of destinations, locate businesses and other points of interest, get maps of a location and share directions with others
• Text, picture and video messaging
• Mobile IM using AIM®, MSN®, Yahoo!®
• Bluetooth profiles supported: headset – mono and stereo, hands-free (car kits), object push for vCard, basic imaging and phonebook access profiles
• 5.0 megapixel camera and camcorder with flash and zoom
  • Face Detection – centers on a face when taking a picture
  • Panorama, split shot and anti-shake camera settings
  • SmileShot – enables the camera to detect when a person is smiling and automatically takes a picture when in the SmileShot mode
• Wi-Fi technology (802.11 b/g)
• Support for Divx and Xvid movie files
• Personal organizer with calculator, calendar, alarm clock, world clock, stop watch and notepad
• Dimensions: 4.41” (l) x 2.24” (w) x 0.52” (d) with standard battery
• Weight: approximately 4.34 ounces
• Display: 3.2” display
• Usage time: up to 346 minutes with standard battery or
• Standby time: up to 464 hours with standard battery (subject to environmental and other factors)