samsung omnia (sgh-i900)

if you wish to have everuthing in just one mobile,than this all in one is something you should take a look at we are talking about the iphone killer,omnia that means `everything' in latin and `wish' in arabic.


`samsung omnia is samsungs flagship model aimed at users who desires a lot of functionality,a lot of style,alot of usability and alot of entertainment in one inovative device.samsung omnia will help user to be at the forefront of workand play and at the same time stay connected anytime,anywhere.'
samsung Omnia looks and feels solid. The 3.2-inch touchscreen dominates the front of the handset with call answer and end keys, plus a touch sensitive optical mouse pointer below it.

The biggest flaw of the Omnia though is that the handset runs on Windows Mobile. Although currently there's no smartphone alternative operating system until Symbian launches a touchscreen version, you just can't get over the irritation of having to use Windows Mobile.

Samsung has done very well to hide the OS with its own skin, replacing the somewhat antiquated icons with something a little more colourful, but there are still huge defects with the speed at which anything happens.

Most apps take three or four seconds to load up which is disappointing when you compare it to say, the iPhone, or even a non-touchscreen Symbian device. The Photoslide photo album viewer and media album are possibly the most irritating applications on the phone. Loading up pictures is fine, but zooming in and exploring the image closeup is just painful. Photos take ages to 'process' and until then the images are just pixelated shots. The accelerometer is just as sluggish too.
Typing on the device is quite a task, but with a staggering seven different input modes including a Windows keyboard, a Samsung keyboard (with slightly bigger keys), three handwriting recognition functions and two keypad options, you're sure to find one you can get on with. You'll have to use the stylus rather than your finger though because the interface of all options doesn't cater for finger operation.
Where TouchWiz really shines, though, is with the Today screen's widget bar. It's brilliant, it's useful, and we're going to miss it on any phone that doesn't have it or something like it. The concept is simple enough: a collapsible bar on the left side of the display presents you with a pretty wide selection of information and / or control widgets that can be dragged onto the background and placed however you choose. There's a pretty good variety of widgets available from the get-go, but we'd love to see Samsung release new ones or market an API very, very hard to developers to get them to create widgets of their own.

Oh, notice that mouse pointer up there? Yep, the Omnia borrows the optical d-pad concept from the i780, which can be used in a traditional four-way mode or turned into a desktop-style mouse. We were skeptical of the whole thing -- and maybe we're crazy, but we ended up loving it in mouse mode. We got used to it quickly, we didn't really think that it was slowing us down much, and it essentially negates the need for a stylus for those times when a finger just won't do (like those pesky "X" and "ok" buttons in the upper right of apps, for example).


We wish we had the same love for the soft keyboards. Samsung provides its own input methods to override Windows Mobile's own, a QWERTY and a SureType-style deal. No complaints there -- the default ones have to go. Sadly, we ended up hating both; of course, your mileage may vary. The keys on the QWERTY were too narrow to be reliably and consistently pressed accurately and there was no pop-up to indicate what key was actually being pressed until we'd already pressed it. The auto-correction is annoying, overbearing, frequently wrong, and implemented in stupid places like Opera Mobile's address bar (try typing "engadget.com" -- we dare you). SureType, on the other hand... well, it's SureType, which we've always found challenging to use. Pearl owners may disagree.
In the final analysis, despite its faults, the Omnia's strengths vault it to the head of the WinMo class for the moment, particularly in this form factor. We think that a slide-out QWERTY version would do very well for Samsung as well -- as would a true world 3G model, of course



technical specifications:
General 2G Network GSM 850/900/1800/1900
3G Network HSDPA 2100
HSDPA 850/1900
Size Dimensions : 112 x 56.9 x 12.5 mm
Weight : 122 g
Display Type : TFT touchscreen, 256K colors (65K effective)
Size : 240 x 400 pixels, 3.2 inches
Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
Handwriting recognition
Ringtones Type : Polyphonic, MP3
Customization : Download
Vibration : Yes
Memory Phonebook : Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records : Practically unlimited
Card slot : microSD (TransFlash), up to 8GB, buy memory
128 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM
624MHz Marvell PXA312 processor
8 GB internal memory
Data GPRS : Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 48 kbps
HSCSD : No
EDGE : Class 12
3G : HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps
WLAN : Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
Bluetooth : Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port : No
USB : Yes, v2.0
Features OS : Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
Messaging : SMS, EMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser : WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
Games : Yes + Java downloadable, order now
Colors : Modern Black
Camera : 5 MP, 2592?1944 pixels, autofocus, image stabiliser, video, flash; secondary videocall camera
Built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS support
Java MIDP 2.0
FM Radio with RDS Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer) MP3/AAC/AAC+/WMA/OGG/AMR player
DivX/XviD/WMV/MP4 player
TV Out
Voice memo
Built-in handsfree
Battery : Standard battery, Li-Ion 1440 mAh
Stand-by : Up to 500 h
Talk time : Up to 5 h 50 min
1 Yr manufacturer warranty