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Samsung Omnia SGH-i900 (8GB)

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By John Chan

Excellent

8

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The good: Full range of wireless features; haptic feedback; improved text input methods; navigation software included; attractive design; excellent battery life; Opera 9.5 browser included.

The bad: Some apps may not work properly; finger scrolling not consistently implemented; use of microSD slot requires battery removal; no stylus slot.

The bottom line: The Omnia is a good alternative to the HTC Touch Diamond with a competitive price and a truckload of features, though Samsung does need to work on the interface to improve its consistency and usefulness.

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Horrible Interface Makes Me Hate This Phone



Rating: 3 out of 10 (Poor)
Pros: Google Maps works well, especially rare occasions that GPS gets signal
Cons: Horrible interface, lots of bugs, bad reception, dropped calls, blares music loud if disconnect headphones
Opinion:
I hate his phone passionately. Several times a day I want to snap it in half. The user interface is so bad, slow and irritating. As a music player, the adapter for the headphones is bigger than my new iPod Nano, and it plays music at high volume through the speaker if you disconnect the headphones. several bugs meant the camera didn't work for about a week, I couldn't sync music from my Windows Vista desktop (but turns out you can just copy files over), it won't save settings to change how it alerts for e-mails, texts, calls etc, and it doesn't turn off the screen if you play music, draining the battery very fast.

AVOID

 

What more do i need!



Rating: 8 out of 10 (Excellent)
Pros: Sleek design, big-enough screen, speedy downloads.
Cons: I can't seem to set tones as message tones. I am only able to set them as ring tones!
Opinion:
Ladies & gentlemen - BUY THE OMNIA if you love class.
I have been using the Omnia since July 26th (my husband as well) and we don't have many complains. To be frank I bought the phone because of the design but of course all the extra features make it THE phone to buy! I have no regrets. I intend to keep the phone as long as it will keep me (touch-wood - no problems so far). Keep it up Samsung

 

Suave or "Sway"?



Rating: 7 out of 10 (Very good)
Pros: Classy looks, good handfeel, loads od space (16GB), GPS and Haptic feed back..
Cons: Merged Ring/tone Volume control , lacks operation manual and phone book transfer error
Opinion:
Truely handsome looking. My wife, whose not to keen on gimicky phone is eyeing my new gadget too. Had 3 weeks now and only now got time to play with it coz heavy work load
Nice:-
Just installed the GPS this wk. Suave. Kind of neat as it even shows your travelling speed. I've heard thr's a software upgrade. do you I still key in the same activation code as to previous installation after upgarding?

Not so Nice:-
2 big things to note though is that the volume control of the ringtone and the earpiece loudness are the same? My boss loathe our mobile ringing loudly but when set to minimum volume(not silent) i can't hear the other party when picking up the phone? Any help on this?? Doees software upgrading solve this prob?
Strangely, had just swap over my sim card from my previous hp(biz fone of brand SE) realized that the phone book did not trarnfer nicely ... Read more

 

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User Discussion

jd0206: hi, how do i configure push mail on omnia?
cili: how do I add languages like Arabic to my Omnia?
Pooh: Hi to all OMNIA user, If you guys know there is this latest link on upgrading of OMNIA ...
pold: Anyone know when the 8gb comes out in singapore and for how much it will be selling for?
MatrixMaxx: I saw your comments on optical zoom on a couple of products and I am wondering why you put ...

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