Price Challenge: Samsung Omnia W I8350

Hi Guys.

Now that in the last 2 blogs, we were checking the prices of Nokia Lumia, another mobile phone that caught my attention was Samsung Omnia W I8350.

But before we discuss about that phone, I want to talk about the growth of Samsung phones over Nokia phones.

Though Nokia remains the market leader in India with a 39 per cent share, its dominance is quite evidently under pressure. According to industry sources, Nokia's market share was 37.5 per cent in January-July 2011. Its market share stood at 49.3 per cent in 2010. Samsung's market share, on the other hand, has increased to 28 per cent in first seven months. In 2010, Samsung's had a market share of 20.1 per cent. In terms of monthly shipment also, Samsung has grown its base at a much faster pace than others. The growth can be largely attributed to the impressive and diverse portfolio of handsets right from entry-level to the high-end segment. The ‘Wave’ series and the ‘Galaxy S’ series has been a great success for Samsung. Samsung continues to launch new product lines at regular intervals across all segment and on all operating systems such as Android, Windows and Bada. Samsung is also doing well at the tablets front and can be considered as the only worthy rival for the Apple juggernaut!

Before we jump into finding the sabsecheapest price for this phone, lets quickly scan through some of the basic specifications and features of this phone. 


Samsung Omnia W I8350has a 3.7 inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen Display and is run by Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango. The processor is 1.4 GHz Scorpion Processor, Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon Chipset, Adreno 205 GPU.

A quick peek at the specs

• Features:  Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon, 1.4 GHz Scorpion
• Size & Dimension:  115.6 x 58.8 x 10.9 mm,  115.3 g
• Display:  Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors, 80 x 800 pixels, 3.7 inches (~252 ppi pixel density)
• Memory: Internal 8 GB storage, 512 MB RAM, No Card Slot
• Camera:  5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, Geo-tagging, image stabilization, Video – Yes, 720p@30fps
• Data:  HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth – Yes, USB – Yes
• Stand-by talk Time: Up to 370 h
• Stereo FM Radio with RDS
• Mobile Office document viewer/editor

Getting to the point where we try and find the sabsecheapest price available online for this phone, lets have a look.

Website                    Price(INR) Delivery  Store

IndiaPlaza               15400                 3-5 working days        Go to Store
(Use your ICICIBANK credit/debit account and enter promocode ICICIFEST12 price reduces from 16900 to 15400 INR)

Sulekha                  16238                 3-5 working days        Go to Store

Sangeethamobiles    17448                    Not Given               Go to Store
(Apply voucher code SANG)

Infibeam                 17567                 1-2 working days        Go to Store
(you can use coupon ICICIBNK10 and pay through ICICI credit card price reduces by 150 INR)

Yebhi                     18199                 7 working days           Go to Store

Flipkart                  18299                 2-4 working days        Go to Store

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