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4.0 out of 5 stars
My Ideal Phone, December 9, 2008
Warning! I am NOT a techie. I am just your average everyday technology-using non-...uhm, techie. So what you'll get here is just a superficial review based on my observations. Ask me what certain programs are for, your guess would be as good as mine. :) So here goes...
Exterior - Don't judge a book by its cover for sure! The Samsung Omnia has a very simplified, sleek look. Just three buttons on the front: accept call, end call, and for navigation.
The Touch Screen - The screen is adequate. The touch screen sensitivity is fine, although sometimes you need to tap two or three times. But then again, being the phone is new I suddenly find myself with a very light touch.
The Keypad - Portrait-oriented, the keys are narrower even for my small fingers. But I typed 'the quick brown fox...' sentence with only 3 errors. Landscape-oriented, the keys are much much better.
Battery Life - This is the only area with which I had a big problem. I researched a lot about this phone but somehow I missed out on this one important factor. It turns out this phone's battery can only last an average of 5.8 hours. I charged it one whole day and the next day I had to recharge it twice again, and after 3 hours it died on me. This is NOT good. So I looked up ways of saving battery life and hit on this - http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsMobile/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3979662&SiteID=65. The topic is about HTC Diamond, but the advice works on Omnia. Right now I'm up to 75% charged after 1.5 hours. Believe me, I'd rather have that than charging it for a full day. I'm still researching for other tips on saving power. :)
Wi-fi - Since this is an unlocked international phone, I don't get the advantage of 3G network here in the US. But with the battery life issue, that's okay with me to just use the internet while I'm at home using wi-fi. This might seem very discouraging to some, so you can always avail of the Omnia from Verizon. It can access their 3G network.
Text Messaging - I'm a text fanatic. I give Omnia 100%! The only thing I don't know how to work out yet (or this might not even be possible) is how to make the messages in my inbox just reflect the sender's name in the front-view of the folder instead of a snippet of the message. I don't know, I just feel uncomfortable with seeing snippets of messages at a glance. :)
Camera - Really really nice!!! 5mp with auto-focus, flash, smile-focus, image editing, and a lot more. :D
Video - Pretty decent for a phone.
Synching the Phone to PC - Really haven't figured this out yet. I popped in the CD and followed the steps but I think I missed something since after synching it, my phone alerted me its memory was low. I checked my media storage--I had downloaded almost every file in my computer from pictures to music to videos! That's a looot of memory! I had to hard-reset my phone to erase everything. Good thing I only had it for 1 day at that time. :)
That's it for now. Will be updating if I have any more info to share. :)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Does everything very well, February 6, 2009
It's a tough review to start... So I'll just say that I'm now leaving my camera and laptop at home when I travel for business. I've had this phone for about 6 months. The phone itself works well on the AT&T network in central New York. I have no complaints about the receive or transmit sound quality or the ability to maintain call quality in areas of poor reception. The 5 MP camera is very competent and good enough for all uses except very high quality portraits and very close macro work. 16 GB internal and 8GB card capacity mean plenty of room for audio or video or work documents or photos. Windows pro 6.1 means lots of available applications for everything from photo editing to voice command. I have partnerships with 2 computers and had a problem syncing contacts on one of them but it was solved by a re-installation of Activesync. Internet and wi-fi functions are great and trouble free. GPS is very impressive and has gotten me back home a couple of times. Great integration with Google Earth. Bluetooth has worked with everything from my laptop, car, headset and Garmin Zumo. Battery will last about 12 hours of hard use, 24 of light use, and 36 if it just sits. I would buy this phone again. If it weren't so expensive I'd have another as a back-up.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Neat Phone, January 11, 2009
Samsung i900, is it or is it not a great phone? That is a good question allot of people might ask themselves. Me personally I think its a neat phone, great phone I think it falls just short of that. There are allot of wonderful points about this phone, Small, Thin, Stylish, 5MP camera, Flash, Space, EXTRA SPACE (if you really needed more), WiFi, FM Radio, Speaker Phone, Great Color, even the appz you can get for it are great. Is it worth 600+ bucks, well maybe depending on how you look at it. I mean its a phone that is UNLOCKED, meaning you can take it to any provider, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and even over on the other side of the world. Since this version of the phone is an Unlocked International Phone. So yeah in my opinion yes its worth the money. Any other unlocked phone of this type would run you about the same in costs. I have a few things I dont understand about it yet but hey its worth learning about. I hope this review helps some people out making a choice on if they should get this phone or not so please the biggest thing I can say is read the reviews before you purchase a phone.......
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