We are sure you might have seen the Samsung Omnia HD lookalike running Windows Phone 7 at yesterday s MIX10 conference. A day later, Samsung has confirmed that the device was not made by them. In fact, the phone was actually a very professionally modded Omnia HD which is originally designed to run Symbian S60 v5.Folks over at Techradar managed to grab a quick byte form senior Samsung officials who said that launch was from Microsoft, not Samsung, and that they used the i8910HD to demo Windows Phone 7. Samsung also said that it's not yet clear whether existing i8910HD users will be able to upgrade to Windows 7 as this demo was a one-off.
The use of the Omnia HD has set off speculations pointing towards the possible adoption of the phone to work on the Windows Phone 7 platform. Except for the 600Mhz processor and the lower resolution screen (which seems to be limited by S60v5 OS that doesn't support higher resolutions than 320x640), the Omnia HD does match the specs required for running WP7S. Still, it is unlikely that the current Omnia HD users will get such a radical OS update. The unofficial modders out there might have already started their work by now, we believe.
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