The Samsung OMNIA is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and comes packed with MS Office (PowerPoint, Excel, and Word). Even though the OMNIA is 100% touch screen, Samsung included an optical mouse for ease of navigation – the optical mouse is similar to what you’d find on laptops. Samsung OMNIA is possibly the best ever smartphone that Samsung has ever built. OMNIA is definitely a better name than SGH-i900, which means ‘everything’ in Latin and ‘wish’ in Arabic. The OMNIA is essentially everything that you can possibly wish for on a Windows Mobile 6.1 smart phone. It brings together high performance business content, high-end design mixed with a full bag of dynamic multimedia rich experience. The OMNIA is the first ever Windows Mobile smart phone featuring Capacitive technology touchscreen from Synaptics! Sorry folks, Samsung representative mispsoke earlier, and just now clarified that OMNIA DOES NOT HAVE CAPACITIVE technology. I repeat, it DOES NOT HAVE CAPACITIVE technology. Unfortunately, it’s the same old resistive touchscreen on every other smartphone on the market today.
The OMNIA also has a 5-megapixel CMOS camera with auto-focus (AF), face and smile detection and auto-panorama shot. OMNIA comes in 8 or 16GB memory configuration and additional storage can be added via extendable slot. Of course, a smart phone called OMNIA can’t go without having a GPS, including navigation and geo-tagging capabilities, so you’d never get lost wherever you are.
According to CNET Asia, “an orientation sensor is built into the OMNIA i900. When rotated, it does this fancy transition whereby the display shrinks and expands back to fill the screen in a different orientation. The 240 x 400 display does seem a little weird, but is not unheard of–we’ve seen it in the ASUS M930’s internal display. It makes sense, too, if you are to use it as a media player because the aspect ratio is much closer to the 16:9 aspect ratio commonly seen in movie files. To that end, the i900 also comes with a media application that supports DivX and Xvid out of the box.”
As I mentioned earlier, the OMNIA is primarily touch-based so it makes perfect sense for Samsung to include its patented TouchWiz user interface. The OMNIA is Samsung’s first ever Windows Mobile smart phone to feature TouchWiz. TouchWiz lets you personalize the home window with unique widgets. The high-resolution touch-sensitive screen uses intuitive tap, sweep, drag and drop operations as well as an on-screen QWERTY keyboard. It also facilitates easy and convenient calling and texting with a dedicated dome key for controlling communications.
The Samsung OMNIA is ultra-slim measuring 12.5mm and has a platinum look finish. Samsung added details such as elegant hairline patterns on the back of the phone to bring the “perfection in style.”
Geesung Choi, President of Samsung Telecommunication Business, said: “I am very excited to introduce Samsung , a mobile device that truly delivers the best possible features for today’s busy, connected consumer. Samsung demonstrates our vision for the Samsung mobile business, which is to provide premium phones for users who desire functionality, style, usability and entertainment in one innovative device. The mobile range will help users to be at the forefront of work and play and at the same time, to stay connected anytime, anywhere.”
The Samsung OMNIA will be unveiled at CommunicAsia, Singapore from June 17 to 20 and commercially launched in the Southeast Asian market starting from the same week. The phone will be available in the European market from July.
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great money maker!
It is really really a wonderful techno set. I wish I had the dime to pay and own one. It leaves me wishing, wishing and wishing to have one. I would be privilaged to be your marketer here in Uganda where technology is becoming a dream of every home and business. Many Ugandans would rush to buy one if availed to them through a person of their copnfidence
It is really really a wonderful techno set. I wish I had the dime to pay and own one. It leaves me wishing, wishing and wishing to have one. I would be privilaged to be your marketer here in Uganda where technology is becoming a dream of every home and business. Many Ugandans would rush to buy one if availed to them through a person of their copnfidence
Save your money- this phone is a dog. Too slow, too sluggish and at times freezes to the point that it won’t answer a call. The touch screen looks pretty but is very unresponsive. Let this one pass- get a different phone. I’m getting rid of mine tomorrow.
is this phone to hard for children around the age of 14?
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The samsung omnia model from UK with orange network having the large memory.It is also a thin model.I got the information about other samsung models in the website called http://www.mobile-unlocker.com/.
Can it Forward SMS?? if it does.. it had killed i phone!
The autofocus camera is a big bonus, and a feature the iPhone doesnt have. I run an expense reporting app on my Omnia called ProOnGo that allows me to take a picture of my receipt, and an expense entry is automatically added with all of my purchase details. It cant run yet on the iPhone because of the lack of an autofocus camera.
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thanks for info it was GREAT!
If someone has this phone, I would love it if you could try my GPS tracking software on it. This software is for WinMo 6.1 devices but so far, not sure if anyone has tried it on this phone (or using Verizon network). The software and the tracking service are free. Send an email to support with your results. Thanks. Go to:
http://www.TrickerTracker.com
Any idea if Verizon will ever unlock the GPS? It would be nice to not have to a different option other than the Verizon Navigator.
I used Google Maps,for my GPS system, works good. However you will have to swicth to standar keyboard, to input information.
I got this for business. It’s way too slow, WAY TOO SLOW. Things take way to long to load and the touch screen isn’t all that good.
I’ve used this Omnia until now and it never dissapoints me . It works just fine . But there’s only one thingthat pissed me off about this phone is that it doesn’t have a place to keep the stylus pen . Now I’ve lost the pen
thank you for sharing your points of review.. I will buy one unit this September…
I inherited one and I had to get it unlocked to run on a different provider. It seemed fine when it was set up with the defaults. However after I personalized it a bit, it became more difficult to control and use. Now it makes calls and sends msgs randomly while in my pocket and I can’t hear the phone when it rings. May have to reset the defaults and start over.
What a piece of S%^#$^
THE WORST phone ive ever owned
SLOW, unresponsive, and permanently hangs up
DO NOT BUY THIS RUBBISH
i just came across this phone just to today and i like just everything about it in fact , i had wanted buying blackberry bold 9000. but just changed my mind today . but now haven’t gone through these stories of people i became discourage again cos what i hate in my life is slow and hanging phones. pls somebody help me WHAT DO I DO?
This is the worst phone ever!!! Don’t waste your money.
Very slow, doesn’t charge properly on usb. Some of my apps don’t run. Some sound settings are too quiet. The list goes on. As far a windows phones go this is the worst, I’m going back to a HTC. This is so disappointing, as the omnia had so much potential.
really I hate this phone:-/ but what to do I buy it ready:(