SAMSUNG OMNIA i900




The Samsung Omnia is the all–in–one mobile device that helps keep even the busiest life in balance. This advanced, touch screen smartphone offers the very best in features and functionality – all accessed through a full–sized, customizable touch display with drag and drop Widgets. The Omnia is like a PC in your pocket, fully loaded with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and Opera Mobile – a full HTML Web browser. It’s also part entertainment manager with a 5MP camera, a music player with FM radio and much more, all wrapped up in one sleek phone. It even has 8GB of internal memory available and support for up to a 16GB microSD card. VZ Navigator, VZAppZone and Mobile Broadband Connect round out the impressive list of services.

Features

•Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
•Rev. A Capable
•Microsoft® Office Word Mobile, Excel® Mobile, and PowerPoint® Mobile; Adobe® Reader® LE PDF viewer
•View, edit, create Word and Excel files; view only PowerPoint and PDF files; view, extract, create ZIP files
•Opera™ Mobile browser
•Wi–Fi Capable
•Windows Media® Player Mobile
•Memory: 256MB Flash/128MB RAM
(+ 8GB of additional internal memory)
•Bluetooth Wireless Technology (v2.0) including A2DP for Stereo
•3.2″ Display: 240×400 pixel; 64K color TFT
•Optical Mouse Navigation
•Advanced touch screen with customizable Widgets
•5.0 megapixel camera w/auto–focus, zoom and video capture
•microSD memory support (up to 16GB)
•Voice command capable
•Speakerphone
•Business Card Reader
•Security locking features
•Text, Picture and Video messaging (MMS)
•Wireless Sync capable
•ActiveSync (v4.5) and Windows Mobile Device Center®
•Mobile Broadband Connect capable
•Total Equipment Coverage is Available
Performance
the Samsung Omnia has a Marvell CPU clocked at 624MHZ and plenty of running and storage memory. (128MB of RAM, 256MB of ROM, 8GB internal storage) The CPU is not anything revolutionary but it felt quite fast. I didn’t notice any extra lag in running apps on the Omnia.

Battery Life
I had no issues with battery life whatsoever. Even with constant network usage due to Microsoft Exchange server push email delivery, I still made it home after a work day with 1/2 charge or better. There were a couple times where I forgot to charge in the evening and the 2nd day found me dangerously close to having a dead battery by the end of the day.

Phone
The Omnia is a good phone, but I had some reception issues. I am not 100% sure if it was the network in my town or Samsung trying to conserve battery a bit. I had similar issues in Las Vegas too, so I am thinking the latter. Either way, it was annoying to say the least. I have spoke to other Omnia owners that haven’t had quite as bad of a time with reception though. Samsung has done good things with the Phone operation on this phone. The phonebook and dialpad are a snap to use.

GPS
Here is a nasty aspect of the Verizon version of this phone. You can only use the included VZ Navigator. I didn’t delve into this aspect and didn’t try to defeat Verizon’s greedy blockage.

Camera
The Omnia has a 5 Megapixel camera that is awesome. Great photo quality and the appication is easy to use and full of features. I am not much of a fan of cameras on a phone, but this one changes my mind a little. Unfortunately, I wiped the phone to send back before I got all my test photos off. I am sorry about that.

Software
The Verizon version of the Samsung Omnia comes with many enhancements to the vanilla Windows Mobile installation. The most notable addition is the today screen. It’s not a today screen anymore! You can still pop into familiar WinMo territory fast, but the main screen replaces what most know with a plug in called “Samsung Widget”.

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