Samsung i8910 Omnia HD 8 GB Unlocked QuadBand Cellular Phone with 8 MP Camera, WiFi, GPS, Touchscreen, FM Radio (Black)

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 5.3 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• ASIN: B00292NYKK
• Item model number: SGH-i900
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #127,021 in Office Products (See Top 100 in Office Products)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2009

Product Description

Brilliant HD. The HD (High Definition) video recording features enables you to capture precious moments in HD (720p) quality. Support for DNLA (Digital Network Living Alliance) lets you share your HD media wirelessly with HD TV's. Brilliant Camera. An industry leading 8MP camera brings digital camera quality images with advanced features such as face detection, smile shutter and panorama shot ready in your pocket at any time. Brilliant Display. The stunning AMOLED 16:9 screen, QHD display and dual stereo speaks reveals a whole new world of multimedia with the Samsung OmniaHD. Watch full length movies, in HD or SD (Standard Definition) on the move with cinema-scale quality. Brilliant Connection. Get it faster, with high-speed super fast internet access with 3G HSDPA & HSUPA technologies lets you download and also send large files with ease. Download an MP3 son in less then 10s, or a 40MB movie in under 1 minute. Brilliant Interaction. A new intuitive 3D interface makes using the Samsung OmniaHD a snap. Mobile Widget support pulls information from the internet and delivers it to you when you need it. Motion enabled 3D games bring exciting arcade action to your hand. Brilliant Convergence. Everything in one with the Samsung OmniaHD. Photographs, music player, HD video, GPS navigation and high speed internet, all in the palm of your hand. Camera Primary 8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash Features Geo-tagging, face, smile and blink detection, image stabilization, wide dynamic range, ISO 1600 Video Yes, HD 720p@24fps, D1 (720x480 pixels)@30fps, QVGA time-lapse and slow-mo video recording Secondary CIF videocall camera. Symbian OS v9.4 Series 60 rel. 5 CPU ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz; 3D Graphics HW Accelerator Digital compass - AVI(DiVX/XviD)/WMV/RV/MP4/3GP video player - MP3/WMA/WAV/RA/AAC/M4A music player - Organizer - TV-out (for SD content only).

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3.0 out of 5 stars Great Build Quality..., December 19, 2009

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N. Ruva "geek" (Los Angeles, CA.USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung i8910 Omnia HD 8 GB Unlocked QuadBand Cellular Phone with 8 MP Camera, WiFi, GPS, Touchscreen, FM Radio (Black) (Electronics)

I have a love/hate relationship with my Omnia HD. I've owned it now since mid-July and have on numerous occasions thought, "this is it... I'm done with this phone... I'm going back to X." I still using the Omnia HD, though. In the end, the phone is pretty impressive. The capacitive OLED screen is a stunner, with rich contrast and fantastic detail, and the overall fit and finish of the phone is second to none. Seriously, this is one solid smart-phone. Every line feels tight, every angle feels put together just perfect. We can talk about the camera at length, but I've honestly not been too blown away by it. It takes great pictures, it takes horrible pictures, sometimes right in succession of each other. Low light is abysmal, and it has a tendency to flare and ghost purples under incandescent lighting. Outdoors, however, even in twilight, I've captured amazingly great shots that you'd be hard pressed to say came from a phone. The HD video recording doesn't work at all. Sure, it records 720p, but it frame drops way too much, and even at its best is under 24 FPS on average. You get a really jerky-stutter feel to 720p recordings. Dropping it down to either of the lower settings, however, produce great videos. If you want this to do HD video recording, you'll be disappointed, though. As is, it's a nice gimmick to show your friends, as long as you don't move the camera too much.

The ARM A8 @ 600MHz is the same CPU you'll find in all of the latest and greatest devices (from the iPhone 3G S to the Palm Pre and the Nokia N900) and it shows why. So very responsive, so very quick... at times. Herein lies the one true fault of the Omnia HD. Samsung really doesn't have the programming prowess that Nokia does on the Symbian platform. This was true with the INNOV8 and becomes doubly true on the S60v5 platform. With so much grunt under the hood, you would expect the i8910 to fly through your day to day tasks, but I find the OS only marginally better than my old N97 in many situations. The software is a mix-match of Symbian and Samsung developed applications. The music player is an in house job, and has a couple quirks. I appreciate they've tried to modernize it with visualizations and 5.1 sound output (that now works through the internal speakers and sounds pretty good), but it has an annoying stutter every time you start an internet connection. If you're listening to music and do anything over the net, you'll get a hiccup in your music playback. For a machine with this much power to be doing that (especially since it has a dedicated CPU just for telephony actions) is just ridiculous. My Nokia 9500, on its archaic hardware didn't even do that.

Other issues like a video player that has to re-sync its library every time you go into the application. A gallery that does not cache image thumbnails and rebuilds every time (usually taking several seconds or more depending on how many shots you have in there) and overall poor email integration (with none of the self configuration scripts that Nokia phones have) give you a sort of barely passable feeling to the overall software on the phone. Everything works, in some facility or another, but none of it feels as good as it should be... or as good as this phone looks or should perform. There is the main issue. As much as I love how powerful and how well built the Samsung is, I can't help but miss my E71 or Nokia 5800 when it comes to just having everything work. Sure, the Nokia devices are underpowered... but at least they get every drop out of the hardware possible. The i8910 feels like it is just spinning its wheels and really not taking advantage of the true grunt the A8 can deliver. It's a good phone... I'm using it right now... Every time I pull the sim card out within a week or so it gets put back in, but... I have to be honest, as soon as something better comes along in the hardware department, I'm jumping ship.

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great phone, poor support and lack of apps, August 17, 2009

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Vladimir - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung i8910 Omnia HD 8 GB Unlocked QuadBand Cellular Phone with 8 MP Camera, WiFi, GPS, Touchscreen, FM Radio (Black) (Electronics)

This phone is really great. Amazing display, fast, well build, great camera (the best in the market i think) HD video. The major disadvantage on this phone is the poor support and lack of apps from Samsung. There is really a few games and software for this phone. The other brand like Nokia and Apple (Iphone) have way better support for their devices. The other disadvantage is the web browser. It's really slow i mean SLOW! And is really frustrating when you waiting 2min. to load one simple page. You can use Opera mini, which is like 10 times faster, but then you are missing flash support and you can not watch videos from youtube and etc. Other thing to now, the quality of the music is average and for phone that cost 700$ this is a shame! My Nokia N95 8GB has way better sound that my Omnia HD. And if you think the problem is in my earphones, is not. I use Shure se530. The worst part is the lack of bass from Omnia HD. Also the virtual 5.1 is just dust in the eyes. Don't get me wrong i love this phone but it's has too many problems with it. No build in navigation app, office can not edit files (you need to pay in order to do that). I think the best thing in this phone is the 8pmx camera which really has stunning quality. That's why i can not give it 5 stars. Sorry Samsung.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars not originally from the US..., September 11, 2009

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G. Giuliano (Quito, Ecuador) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung i8910 Omnia HD 8 GB Unlocked QuadBand Cellular Phone with 8 MP Camera, WiFi, GPS, Touchscreen, FM Radio (Black) (Electronics)

I have just gotten my hands on this phone but I haven't used it yet. Although I have a friend who has it and I really like it for all it offers, I just want to say that although I bought this phone on amazon and it was shipped from a store in California, it appears to have french or french canadian origins because all the manuals are in french (no problem for me since I am french) but I cannot use the charger because it doesn't have the US plug (much needed in Ecuador where I live) which means I'll have to buy that separately.

The 4 stars do not qualify the product (I'll probaby edit my review when I start playing with it) but rather this annoying mistake from the shipping store. Sorry Worldwide Distributors, you should be way more careful about this...