Just as Apple fanboys are being whipped into hysteria over the iPhone 2 with an expected announcement at 6pm this evening at the Apple WWDC Developers Conference, Samsung comes along and dumps all over their party with the announcement of the Samsung i900 Omnia. Now Samsung announcing a new phone is nothing new; indeed, the Korean manufacturer has so many phones in its line-up it seemingly announces one every day. But the Samsung i900 Omnia is different from the rest. With a 3.2" haptic touchscreen interface, 7.2Mbps HSDPA connectivity, built-in GPS and Wi-Fi, and a gloriously updated touchscreen interface, it's nothing less than Samsung's very own iPhone 2 challenger. Has it got what it takes to take on the latest Apple Jesus-phone? Find out after the jump... Actually, you won't be able to find out until after 6pm tonight, when Apple finally get around to announcing the iPhone 2! But we can at least speculate on a few things. Firstly, the Samsuing i900 Omnia will trounce the Apple iPhone 2 in the features department. We know this, because the original iPhone was roundly trounced by virtually all other phones. I mean, a poxy 2 megapixel camera and no video recorder on an up-market phone released in 2007? Ridiculous! However, it was the quality of the iPhone's interface that made it what it was, not the features. With the Samsung Omnia, though, things may have shifted against the iPhone. People have now become used to the concept of the touchscreen interface. Seemingly, every new phone released since the iPhone has come with one as standard, and the Omnia is no exception; neither, then, will the iPhone 2 be. It'll become just another touchscreen mobile phone. Speculation surrounds the iPhone 2 coming with both a-GPS and HSDPA. We know for sure that the Omnia will come both, and that its HSDPA connection will be able to transfer data at an almighty 7.2Mbps. What will the iPhone 2 offer? And then there are the camera facilities. The Omnia will offer a 5 megapixel camera complete with autofocus, image stabilisation and geo-tagging, as well as video recording and playback in both DivX and XVid formats. The original iPhone never even had a video camera; what will the iPhone 2 bring? In fact, that's the question that's now being asked by every tech enthusiast; what will the iPhone 2 bring to the party? The original iPhone, though flawed, revolutionized the mobile phone industry. The new iPhone 2 looks set to make the iPhone right by finally providing the features the original iPhone should have had right from tbe start. In itself, this would be great news for both Apple and its users. However, the mobile phone industry doens't stand still, and Apple's biggest mistake would be to release a phone that does what its previous model should have done all along, while the competition races ahead and releases genuine next-gen phones. It happened to Motorola, who only began making genuinely good RAZRs years after the original launched, but which were hopelessly outgunned by the competition even as they were released. I hope the iPhone 2 has everything its fan-boys want, as Apple have so obviously disrupted the mobile phone market for the good of us all. One thing's for sure, though - just as the iPhone raised the bar for mobile phones, so the Samsung i900 Omnia has raised it further still. The iPhone 2 has a lot to prove if it's to take on the new pretenders to its crown. [Source: Trusted Reviews]