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Samsung i900 Omnia Unlocked Phone with 8 GB Memory, 5 MP Camera, GPS, Wi-Fi, Windows Mobile 6.1, and MicroSD Slot--International Version No Warranty (Black)

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I am glad I bought this phone. I fell in love with it since I got it out of the box.

PROS:

* Slim design, executive look
* Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional (great improvement)
* AGPS. 100% accurate when you choose My Location. Associated with
google maps is an A+. (Why pay for something that is already part of the
phone...That goes for you VERIZON!!!!).
* Opera Browser works great (sorry Internet Explorer)
* Touchscreen is very responsive (if you do not want screen to vibrate,
you can disable it in SETTINGS.
* Stylus, I do not use it. my fingers do the job excellent.
* Push E-Mail. I get all my emails from work, POP accounts, Gmail, (which
is already integrated in the phone), and of course windows live
messenger.
* Video player is very good, good resolution, great audio. (One thing
I dicovered today is that I can listen to Internet radio, WOW!!)
* My 5 Faves...NOT REALLY, but keep reading, (in this case 4 faves, yes, one of the widgets lets you add 4
people you call the most just like my five faves.) I am using my Omnia
with T-mobile and this came very handy.)
* Microsoft Office, YES! you have Excel, Word, Power Point. All 3 are
mobile version, you can read and edit any documents as you wish. you
also can read .pdf files, isn't that something?? you will love this
phone.

CONS:

* I personaly, don't have any negative comments on this phone, but I will
mention one that I know bothers some people out there, that is:

NO 3G Network compatibility in the USA. This phone was made exclusively
for Asia and Europe and their 3G works on a different band. But I tell
you one thing, Internet over EDGE is very good, so I really don't care
at all about 3G speed. So keep this in mind....NO 3G in the USA.

Over All, this is a great phone. you will have to take your time to play with it to find all its features and how to make them work for you. Don't get frustrated if you don't get it to work the way you want the first time. It took me a good week to figure this phone out and now I am very excited I chose this phone. Iphone is a thing of the past, which I never had but my friends have it and some of them are not too happy with it, plus, they got stuck in a contract. Here you don't have to do that.

Thank you SAMSUNG for this phone.

I have include this link called Omnia i900 - The Whole Nine Yards
This will make you take a final decision to get this phone or not.
Hope it helps, like it helped me to get this phone

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i900_omnia-review-267.php

Thanks! and let me know what you think.

I decided to stay with Verizon instead of switching to ATT to go with the Apple Iphone.

I am an early adapter, I picked my omnia over the blackberry storm when both had just come out in january 09.

The Omnia offered far better processing speed, immensley better use of the touch screen technology, better screen resolution, full version of MS office rather than just a viewer and the use of Internet Explorer Mobile for internet viewing as well as Opera (not able to view all internet pages).

The camera was superior, the integration with outlook was phenominal and the bundled apps were perfect.

Learning curve on the Keyboard was tough but manageable.

Althouth I believe this product is electronically far superior to the Iphone and Storm, there are some serious issues that have not - and probably will never be resolved as Samsung is already moving on to their next "superphone" without resolution of problems with this one and Microsoft has already (at the announcement of this phone) announced the release date of Windows Mobile 7.0..

Although the Iphone is slower and has less memory, it has a far more predictable speed allowing for constant rate of typing and response . . the Omnia - like anything running Windows - bogs down over the course of the day making the search and input speed vary. This is fine until you figure out how to use the keyboard to do email and are maddly typing only to find that the phone is three letters behind you...A simple reset solves the issue but . . . . you dont have to reset an Iphone every day!

The battery life is no where near advertized. If I unplug the phone at 7AM it starts complaining that a recharge is necessary by 5PM . . just in time for the evening commute- heck of a time for the cell phone to run out!

If you are accessing the internet or listenting to music or a movie, you get about 6 hrs before the low battery alarm starts chiming.

Standby time is about 36 hrs - lot of good that does though!

Apple had similar issues with their phones and worked some fixes on the early ones, Samsung has no intention.

When you are on a high call day . .or watching a video on the phone, the phone gets hot . . my IR thermometer says over 103 degrees . . .Samsung says this is normal and fine . . .dont know about that as there is a Lithium Polymer battery in there and that is getting hot too.

I have had two phones and they both acted the same way, this is a design issue not a particular unit.

The biggest reason to think carefully about the purchase of this phone is that there are NO aftermarket apps that mix well with Mobile 6.1 and none on the horizon that are reasonable.

I tried to find a calculator to figure time cards, the Blackberry progam was 9.99, the palm version was 4.99, the Iphone app was 9.99 and the windows mobile version - with no promise of compatibility with 6.1 - was 49.99.

Check on Amazon, downloads.com and try to find aftermarket software for windows 6. . . .not much . . .

Go to Apple Store and see how many apps are out there for Iphone . . heck, there is even an app that allows you to use it as a flute!

I like the Omnia even with it's faults but wish I had known then what I know now . . If you have no intention of doing anything other than what this phone has built into it, then it is better than an Iphone. If you want to watch movies and listen to tunes, have some odd and end games for the train ride home at night, then dont waste your time with this phone, buy an Iphone.

First, I bought this phone thinking that it would resolve the problems I was having with my treo 750...HA! It has created more problems than solutions. Touch screen doesn't respond as you would expect and as stated in other reviews the widgets are small and sometimes hard to manage.
I was so excited to get this phone, windows mobile 6, great internet, email, on and on. It states in the phone review that this phone is compatable with microsoft voice command. That isn't the case, at least not for my i900. I used voice command with my treo 750 and it worked great so I just assumed it would work with the i900...it does not. So while you can receive calls thru the blue tooth headset, you can not make a call and that is huge for me. This is definitely a big negative.
It won't send picture messages as advertised, at least not with T-mobile. Texting and email work fine. If the email is set up correctly thru your phone service it works great and you can either receive emails automatically, set it up to retrieve them every few hours or get them when manually requested .
I guess that if I had done a better job of researching the pros and cons of purchasing a phone made in Asia, I might have waited. You won't get any help from Samsung USA as they just give you the excuse that since the phone is European, they do not support it in the US. As a matter of fact, you get that excuse almost anywhere you turn for support.

23 more months. I too have a Samsung Omnia. As you read the reviews everyone sings the praises of all the "features" of this phone. I bought this phone for 2 things- to take and make cell calls and to access Excel spreadsheets when I'm in the field.
Load up a spread sheet and you can see 2-3 rows and 2-3 columns which is fine until the data is spread out over 4-6 rows/columns. Guess I'll keep toting my laptop.
Now the calls - you want to put the call on speaker? First you have to hit the little mouse pad to remove the stupid black box, then hit the speaker button -Oh, I'm sorry did I lose the call?
Did you miss a call? I don't know. First you have to pick up the phone - shake it repeatedly to switch back to portrait, enter your security code then you may see a box that tells you a phone number. Does it tell you what time or if they left a voice mail - no that would be too convenient.
If you are thinking it may be time to upgrade your phone I strongly recommend you go into the providers store and get a "hands-on" experience because it may just turn out the phone doesn't do the simple things. 23 more months, sigh.

I have given this phone 8 months before finally admitting it's the worse handset I have ever owned. 8 months...of resetting, crashing, hanging, fixing .. I doubt I have enough room here to list the problems I have had, so let's think of a few of the more annoying ones, starting with WinMo 6.1 (need I say more)..the fact that syncing music is a nightmare because when you sync 4GB of music the phone "tricks" itself it is full and you can't use the camera ...the Touch Player is only marginally better than the Windows Mobile player..the touch screen sticks or scrolls uncontrollably, the phone/dial screen locks in seconds making it cumbersome to use the keypad in touchtone calls..having to unlock every few seconds, the sms and email notfications decide when they're going to work if at all..the email app seems totally unable to sync with an MS Exchange Server...you have to constantly remove tasks in the task manager to save on battery and processing memory, it doesn't like 3rd party apps or shells...the stylus hanging from the phone without a cradle was bound to break off sometime (and it did)..the animation/rotation has a mind of its own even when you've altered the settings. The clock and alarm apps decide they're only going to work when THEY want to...the Opera app decides it can't run at all because despite what the memory status is telling you , it thinks there is no more memory left...there is much much more..I had a 2G iphone for a year before the iphone was released here and even with the restrictions I had network-wise made that a more functional handset...I did/do not want another iphone because I wanted a phone that had "more features"...but seriously, I cnanot beleive that I haven't yet launched this Omnia into a wall..

I was seduced--by the Omnia. And what a mistake that was.

The good--all of the features that are cited. Yes, they are there.

The bad--virtually everything else.

--I have had an iTouch in my pocket for over a year. I have had the Omnia for 2 months (I just replaced it with a Nokia.) The number of scratches on the Omnia screen compared to the iTouch is appalling.

--In order to make the touch screen compatible as a phone the approach to preventing accidental entries on the screen is a killer for users. Eight button pushes, besides the phone number to access an extension phone.
link.

--I tried to install Windows 7 Beta--the presence of the Omnia on my PC prevented that.

--I tried to install Omnia on the Blue Tooth device in my car. It did not work.

--Mobile 6.1 makes using the Omnia like the good old days of 56K Internet.S L O W

--The need for a stylus, dangling at the side of the phone, means that the touch screen functionality is low. Many of the operations need the stylus unless your fingers have the same dimensions it does.

--Batteries are weak.

--Establishing the link with my PC took hours of coaching from the cell phone provider.

And doing some post-purchase research with personnel at my provider during many service calls had a consistency--when pressed, they all said the Omnia was a dog of a machine.

My advice--buy something else, anything else. In 17 years of cell phone use this is by far as bad as it gets.

Cons:
Worst touchpad ever.... Completely unusable... Microsoft Mobile Windows may attempt to bill itself as competition for the Android and Iphone but frankly its not even in the same ballpark as these competitors and its insulting to them to mention this disastrous attempt at a smartphone in the same breath as those two...
The big issue: no manual keypad...And as much as its possible for Iphone to get away with that, asking a Windows Mobile system to take on the same challenge only succeeds at making obvious how non-competitive Windows Mobile is at this point in time....While Iphone has an amazingly seamless digital interface the OS on this disaster is amazing in the opposite way: Its amazing anyone thought this was usable enough to sell to the public. The other day it took me over 5 minutes just to save a number because of the constant typos caused by the stunningly inaccurate touchpad.
Its a shame too because the phone has a ton of features...Problem is that with an interface this horrible no one is likely to have the patience to bother to try to use any of them.
Pros:
This phone has a great camera and good battery life.....Umh, lets see...I guess those are the only positive things I can think of...Otherwise, its a disaster and an embarrassment..
I'm actually thinking of keeping mine and using it as a camera...I suppose it also might make a good paperweight...

I'll start by saying I'm happy with this phone, it does have good looks, works great as a PDA, but need some work as a phone. In short:

Pros

1. Camera (with smiley option :) )
2. GPS
3. Radio (with save feature)
4. Touchscreen

Cons

1. The caller id shows who is calling, but why does it has to be so small when u have this neat big screen
2. I already lost my stylus, it shouldn't be that hard to find a place to put it, the HTC already solved it.

Overall the hardware is great, but the software needs some work.

Best service I ever got on electronic deals. Phone arrived quick,in great conditions, well packed with lot of accessories.Recommend to everyone... Thank you for your outstanding service.

I've been stuck with this phone for a year and half now. I've had a kyocera slider phone, a motorola razor, and an LG Envy 2. This is the worst phone I have ever had. Its sluggish. Its unreliable when you need it most. It constantly needs to be reset, because it frequently won't make calls, receive texts, ring, etc. The touch screen is awful. It can't tell the different between scrolling and clicking if you are using your thumb. I once accidentally "liked" a friend's post about her dad passing away from cancer because of this. I know it has a stylus, but who wants to carry that around all day? Half the apps are pretty much unusable because the phone backs up every single picture the app comes across. For example using the Facebook app, it'll save every little thumbnail or picture you see on facebook. For this reason it clutters up your picture saves on the phone to the point you can't find your real pictures. The vibrate feature might as well be the silent feature. I cannot feel my phone vibrate even on the highest vibrate setting. When texting the phone will sneak spaces into your message without pushing any buttons. 90% of my messages are sent with 3 or 4 spaces before the message so the recipient needs to scroll down to find the beginning of the message. It once spaced it 15 lines down.

This a terrible phone!!! Don't get it! Once my contract ends I'm getting an iphone! You should get an iPhone instead. The Samsung Omnia is a miserable attempt at a iphone. I wouldn't wish this phone on my worst enemy!