Samsung Omnia Reviews Show Beauty, Brains, Top-End Features
There has been a lot buzz about the Samsung Omnia. When we originally wrote this Review of Reviews it was for the unlocked international version To read the Review of Reviews of the Verizon version of the Samsung Omnia click here.
Editor's Note February 24, 2009. The most recent news is that Verizon has dropped the online discount price to $99 when you use the Wireless Mobile News' direct coupon-link Instant Phone Rebate Only Available with Online Purchase. That's a lot of phone for a little money.
When the Samsung Omnia originally came out it was priced $249.99 it got a lot of OMG's that it was a little pricey. We have now collected more reviews in the Verizon Samsung Omnia Review of Reviews 2 for your reading and decision making.
JMobileTech Review notes that it looks beautiful! "Cross the great looks of the Samsung
Tocco or LG Prada with the brains of Windows Mobile and you've got some
device."
Mobile News reports "that all in all, the i900 is packed full of top-end features and presented to the user in a very good package...its
specification is superior.(to the iPhone) My money would certainly go onto the i900
rather than the 3G iPhone."
Chris Davies at Slash Gear wrote, "There's a lot to like about the Samsung i900 Omnia.
The GPS and
high-resolution camera both work well, battery life is good and it's
undoubtedly a handsome phone...but you will have to live without 3G(in
the US) and it's no iPhone Killer." He noticed that the accelerometer
auto rotation is not fast enough which can be
annoying. Sound quality was excellent and phone voice quality was god.
He suggested that the 5-megpixel
Camera with auto focus a bright LED flash, put it ahead of the
competition.
John
Chan at CNET
the design attractive, and liked the Opera 9.5 Browser while the finger scrolling
was not consistent and to access the microSD, the battery had to be removed.
Ziegler at engadget wrote about the specs of the Samsung Omni being impressive,
and that in
"slow-ass". The touch interface begged for a stylus and didn't always work. The
TouchWiz "Today Screen" is brilliant and he loved the optical mouse mode, but
hated the on screen QWERTY keyboard. He
still found the strengths of the Samsung Omni "vault" it to the head of WinMo
class.
For a quick comparison of tthe Samsung Omnia to iPhone 3 check out
Review
of Reviews Samsung OMNIA vs iPhone 3G.