Samsung i900 Omnia Review

No attention seeking necessary as the Samsung Omnia is the undisputed stand-out release in 2008. It is a touch screen smart phone that has everything for those who love to have the latest and the greatest. Connect any device you can imagine via USB, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi and combine those facilities with its 3G video calling, a music player & FM radio, 5 megapixel camera,  fast web browsing, and unrivalled massive memory capacity. Seemingly from out of the blue comes a mobile phone that not only does almost everything you could possible want from your phone, but does it very well.

Design

The Samsung Omnia has what it takes – the ‘Wow factor’ – with its super-cool, sleek, slim-line, platinum finish look and feel.  The Omnia is an evolution of refining past Samsung mobile phones such as the Armani, the Nerva and the Tocco in its quest in developing ‘the one’. Exuding sophistication and style this handset provides high quality imaging, communication & business features for today’s movers and shakers.

The Samsung i900 Omnia has smooth curvaceous edges and comes complete in a platinum silver & black coloured casing. Its size is perfect for carrying in your pocket or bag measuring 112mm by 12.5mm deep as well as feeling solid in the palm of your hand weighing just 127 grams including the fitted battery. With each new release the touchscreen user interface has improved little by little until it came up with the Omnia’s massive TouchWiz WQVGA 3.2 inch screen (only slightly smaller than the iPhone 3G to give you a comparison). TouchWiz is an intuitive touchscreen user interface which allows you to drag and drop, tap and sweep with an on-screen QWERTY keyboard. Feel your way the menus and controls around with tactile feedback, keeping the die-hard texters happy. Samsung have effectively emulated the innovative touchscreen UI design of the iPhone.

Features

There are many advantages to the Omnia Smartphone running Windows Mobile 6.1 as there are many familiar features to the PC user. These include convenient access to viewing and editing Microsoft office documents such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint, a Mobile version of Internet Explorer for web browsing, and you can download and install third party applications into your phone. A very comprehensive range of Personal Organiser functions are preinstalled to keep your hectic schedule running smoothly.

When looking at its Multimedia capabilities, the question to ask is, ‘what doesn’t the Samsung Omnia do?’ It is safe to sum up that it does everything! Starting with the 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, face-detection, and to avoid those group shot mishaps smile detection which takes a shot only when everyone is smiling, LED flash and digital zoom and auto-panorama.

It can be rated in the top 10 of current camera phones and is even better than the camera in the iPhone 3G. Use your camera as a business card reader as well. The video camera’s quality is excellent complete with image stabilisation as is the video playback capability supported by Divx. It almost goes without saying that it’s a 3G phone with video calling. It’s the same story with the music player as it supports nearly all the most required formats with an included FM radio. Fast HSDPA downloads and web browsing, viewed on the large touchscreen with the advanced opera browser, makes using the Omnia an enjoyable internet experience. You will also never get lost with the built-in GPS navigation system.

Apart from all of this, the stand out feature of the Samsung Omnia is its absolutely massive memory capacity and therefore all that this implies. You have a choice of either 8 or 16GB with a microSD memory card slot enabling the addition of an extra 8GB. This equates to the storage of about 8,000 of your favourite music tracks or 23 quality DVD films. This also leaves room for the storage of 120MB worth of MMS messages or text.  With all of this functionality going on the Omnia doesn’t let you down with a very good battery life with about 450 hours of standby. You have a choice of Bluetooth, USB and Wi-Fi connectivity which is unbeatable.

Conclusion

At the top of the Best seller charts upon its launch this year the Samsung Omnia is truly an amazing phone. The hot product on the market in 2008 is the touchscreen phone and the Omnia is arguably sizzler of the year. The Omnia rivals and surpasses the new iPhone or the LG Viewty. This is a 5 star phone for those who love to be on the cutting edge of mobile phone technology.

Samsung Omnia Specifications:

• 5 megapixel camera with face detection autofocus, smile detector, auto-panorama, 4x digital zoom and power LED flash
• Video recorder & 3G video calling
• Display: TFT, WQVGA, 240 x 400 pixels, (3.2 inches), 65,000 colours
• GPS navigation with geo-tagging
• Music Player (MP3, AAC, AAC+, Enhanced AAC+, WMA formats) plus FM radio RDS
• Music Recognition (Shazam)
• 40-voice polyphonic ringtones / MP3 ringtones
• Speakerphone
• Voice memo recorder
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, email
• Document viewer
• Java games
• Memory: 8 Gbytes or 16 Gbytes plus microSD memory card slot (up to 8 Gbytes)
• Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, WI-Fi
• Internet: WAP 2.0, Internet Explorer / Opera web browsers, GPRS, EDGE, 3G (HSDPA 7.2 Mbps)
• Quadband (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) plus 3G (UMTS 2.1GHz)
• Offline mode
• Size: 112 x 57 x 12.5 mm
• Weight: 106g
• Talktime: up to 10 hours (2.5G) up to 6.5 hours (3G)
• Battery standby: up to 430 hours (2.5G) up to 450 hours (3G)

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