Samsung Omnia Cell Phone Review
The Samsung Omnia, or the SCG-i910 to give it, its proper name, came out during the second half of last year. There was no move to bring it to the US till last month when Verizon brought it to the stores in time for the holiday demand.
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Feature wise the Omnia offers everything you could reasonably expect including:
• A large touch screen
• Samsung’s customizable TouchWiz interface
• Integrated Wi-Fi
• A 5 megapixel camera
• Bluetooth
• And GPS
The conventional rectangular shape is dominated by a large 3.2 inch display which offers 262,000 colors, along with a 240 x 400 pixel resolution. Perhaps not as great as the display on the Blackberry Storm or some HTC models, it is still among the best and most easy to read displays going.
Being a smart phone, the key board is an important feature. The data and text entry options include a full QWERTY key board, Transcriber and a Block recognizer among others. The keyboard is slightly cramped and many people prefer to use the keypad or stylus for the job. While using the QWERTY keys in landscape mode is easier than the portrait mode, this is still not the best phone for those who do a lot of texting or emailing. However, most people agree that it is easier to use than the Blackberry Storm.
What makes the display stand out is Samsung’s great Touchwiz interface which lets you customize your screen by placing widgets for the quick and easy start of various applications. The widgets can be dragged and dropped to whatever part of the screen you want and they will stay there for easy access whenever you need to fire up those programs. Placing the widgets yourself can sometimes lead to a jumbled up looking screen so if you are not comfortable with the idea, you can revert to the Widows Today screen that most people are comfortable with.
Although the quality of many features like email, browsing and downloads is network dependant and all the credit should not be given to the phone, from what I was able to observe on the Omnia using Verizon’s network is that the phone function very well and is on par, if not better than a the Blackberry.
Besides the 3G features that most modern smart phone now have, the Omnia also offers integrated Wi-Fi. Having a second browsing option is always a blessing especially for those who travel a lot and often come across blank areas in network coverage. Talking of traveling, I found the GPS works well. However for real time information and directions you will need to subscribe to Verizon’s VZ navigator to get these services.
The Omnia operates on Windows Mobile 6.1 professional edition and has all the features that the OS offers.
The phone offers a complete range of multimedia capabilities including 8 GB of memory with the provision of adding more via the micro SD/SDHC card slot.
The 5MP camera is great and the anti shake function makes all the difference, especially in the case of a small light instrument that needs to be kept steady.
The basic phone operations were excellent with great voice clarity and no dropouts (although again a lot of the credit here may have to go to the network). The phone has a rated talk time of 5.7 hours and a standby time of 19 days.