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Samsung Omnia
Samsung Omnia is considered among the hottest smartphones of 2008, lining up with RIM BlackBerry Bold and Sony Ericsson Xperia X1. Blame the buzz on the Samsung’s TouchWiz interface, which is an innovative touch screen, allowing users to customize and drag-and-drop widgets on the screen. The real deal is that Omnia has managed to depart the Windows Mobile operating system away from its almost unusable strand. Translation: Omnia made a more productive phone, offering a multitude features to the users.
A certified eye-catcher, the Samsung Omnia features a slim elegant candy bar design with black-and-slate silver chassis, sporting a dimension of 4.4 x 2.2 x 0.4 inches. Despite this thinness, the phone has a nice solid construction and it is comfortable to hold and use. Controls are very much devoted to the 3.2-inch diagonal TFT touch screen with 262,000 color output and 240 x 400-pixel resolution. Inputting texts can done via the full QWERTY keyboard, which is cramped in portrait mode and would ate up half of the screen when opened, or the Block Recognizer and the Transcriber. The screen is equipped with a built-in accelerometer which automatically rotates the screen from portrait to landscape when the phone is turned off.
Going back to the most celebrated features, the Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface offers a great deal of personalization on the Home screen simply by dragging and dropping widgets to the main screen for easy access. After this, the user can collapse and hide the tray by tapping the arrow button. What makes this feature very important is that it proved that the Windows Mobile can be translated to usability. Although there are slight problems, such as the scroll bar is sometimes hard to use and the preloaded widgets are great limitations, although this serves a good start. The preloaded widgets are for photos, the media player, FM radio, calendar, profiles, games, several clocks, new notifications, and notepad. The only controls not bound by the touch screen are the Talk and End keys, and a four-way directional pad which acts as a virtual mouse.
The phone is adorned with a volume rocker, and a camera activation key, headphone/power connector port and the microSD slot. And as it runs under the Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system, it offers the same application including the Microsoft Office Mobile Suite, support for Microsoft’s Direct Push Technology for real-time message delivery and access to POP3 and IMAP e-mail accounts. Productivity tools include a task list, a task manager and switcher, a smart converter, a calculator, and a PDF reader and a lot more.
Omnia doesn’t fail in Internet browsing with the Opera Mobile Web browser. It also includes Windows Live integration and a Google Launcher however, there’s no Flash support. Connectivity features include the integrated Wi-Fi or T-Mobile or AT&T’s EDGE network. Phone features are also impressive: quad-band world roaming, a speakerphone, conference calling, text and multimedia messaging.
Among the multimedia features are the Touch Player, which can support music and video of various formats, podcast support, a streaming media player, and FM radio. The 5-megapixel camera is also a good treat with its advanced settings, such as video recording and digital zoom, and editing options. It produced clear and color-rich photos, commendable enough for a camera phone.