Samsung OMNIA SGH-i900

Samsung Electronics announced the launch of Samsung OMNIA SGH-i900. It brings together high performance business content, top of the range style and a fun, dynamic multi-media experience, to ensure consumers are always connected both at home and at work.

The smartphone OMNIA SGH-i900 is equipped with a 3.22 inch screen with 400×240 resolution, 5M pixel camera (wth smile detection and geo tagging), a GPS receiver, and runs on Windows Mobile 6.1. The i900 will be quad-band GSM/EDG , 3G/3G + compatible (up to 7.2 Mbps), WiFi 802.11 b/g, and Bluetooth 2.0 EDR.

Based on the most up to date Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system, Samsung OMNIA gives users a mobile extension to their PC experience, with access to MS Office documents such as PowerPoint, Excel and Word.

Samsung OMNIA delivers the ultimate in digital entertainment thanks to a wide 3.2-inch WQVGA LCD screen for viewing videos and slide shows in high-resolution and advanced audio capabilities. MultiCodec support for DivX, Xvid and other video formats eliminates the hassle of file format conversions.

Samsung OMNIA also comes with a five-megapixel CMOS camera with the latest value-added features, which include auto-focus (AF), face and smile detection and auto-panorama shot. The handset’s generous internal memory (available in 8GB or 16 GB capacity options and extendable slot for additions) ensures ample storage space for digital assets.

Samsung’s patented TouchWiz user interface makes entering data and text simple. With unique widgets, users can customise and personalise the way they use their phone.

The Samsung OMNIA will be unveiled at CommunicAsia, Singapore from June 17 to 20 and commercially launched in the Southeast Asian market starting from the same week. The phone will be available in the European market from July.

6 Responses to “Samsung OMNIA SGH-i900”

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5. M-RES on November 14th, 2008 9:34 pm

   Gish! Having just opted for one of these phones over an iPhone so that I could stick with Orange instead of having to switch to O2 I have to say I’m rather unimpressed.

   The feature set is immense and can’t be faulted. The blame for the poor usability lies fairly and squarely at the door of the OS. Windows Mobile just isn’t designed for Mobile Devices – it’s better suited to a PC where you have a decent mouse/keyboard interface. Samsung have done their best trying to accommodate the point of having a touch screen phone with their overlays to functions, but there are so many things you have to return to the awful Windows Mobile interface to accomplish that it ruins the user experience of the phone. I’ve done a comparison with a friends iPhone and the iPhone with it’s reduced functionality wins hands down – just because it’s SO fast and easy to use. The last thing you want to be doing when you’re in a hurry is delving through layers and layers of obscurely placed settings and functions. Customisation is just as bad – it means digging through menus and poking around with a fiddly stylus on those tiny menu items and the stylus doesn’t even slot into the phone itself! It’s a wholly unintuitive design on the part of Microsoft – typical of their slapdash way of arranging things where the layout doesn’t make sense to anyone but the programmers themselves. For this reason I’m thinking of cancelling the contract and biting the bullet to switch to O2 for the iPhone. I can live without MMS and video messaging to be honest, but I can’t live with a phone that needs this much attention just to use a feature that should be one button away as it is on the iPhone.

   Verdict: if you like fiddling around with settings and never getting anything done, this phone’s for you. The camera is excellent and the storage capacity is immense for a phone (16Gb, plus 16Gb memory card!). A great phone but let down by the Operating System – perhaps it’d be better running Symbian or Android.

   If you just need a phone to work intuitively out of the box and aren’t sold on gizmos, but would rather just get to work straight away, get an iPhone. Not as much bang for your buck on paper, but you WILL use it’s functions (where you’d not use the i900 to it’s full potential) because they don’t frustrate you or hide away behind a myriad pages of tiny buttons – oh and you don’t need to carry a separate stylus everywhere with you!

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