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HTC Touch Diamond vs. Samsung i900 Omnia: Head-to-Head

02 July 2008 | Read the review | Post your comment
HTC Touch Diamond vs. Samsung i900 Omnia: Head-to-Head - read the full textIt’s PocketPC playoffs and HTC are giving Samsung a match at the GSM Arena. With two of the stars of the season arriving in our office all at once, we thought it’s a heck of an opportunity for some Diamond-Omnia-Diamond-Omnia-Diamond-Omnia game-set-match. We got two aces up to the challenge, so sit back and stretch out. Ah well, get that six-pack too and join us for the kick-off...

 

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I prefer samsung, because it's nicer and better than HTC, samsung's features and performance is higher than HTC and if you want buy one of this i suggested that buy samsung.

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  • 2008-09-22 01:01
  • nsBB

> In reply to Vishu @ 2008-09-06 04:06 from utaxu would rather try Iphone caz its same a touch phone and the audio quality is way better than SE W .

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  • 2008-09-20 14:21
  • w9J{

I have recently tried and used both the Omnia and the Touch Diamond and have to say the Omnia is streets ahead. The HTC falls dow n for me on 2 issues that are fundamental to every day use.

1/ screen response is appalling and the screen is too small to be a usable touch screen. The Omnia is fantastic, even with my chunky fingers. Yes the HTC has better resolution but that is about the only thing I found in the HTCs favour.

2/ The battery life is unacceptable on the HTC lasting less than a day for me with light to medium use. The Samsung goes for twice the time.

Only other comments I would mention in HTCs favour is the standard USB cable and its more compact with a nice case supplied in the box. But as a heavy business user it was generally unusable for the reasons above

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  • 2008-09-17 08:29
  • mXE%

I know samsung phones from KOREA but HTC phones from china or what ? please tell me

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  • 2008-09-09 07:13
  • kSms

HTC diamond is better....I have a diamond and this is unbelieveble phone....jeaaaaaa:)

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  • 2008-09-08 11:10
  • Sv3V

Question to all...

Me being a music lover i always did stick to SE Walkman series.
I plan to buy one of these(mostly omnia) and wanted to find out which has nice earphone audio quality( High and clear/Crisp) compared to SE walkman series.
Listnin to music is my main concern...
please help me buy as its huge investment im gona make..pls..

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  • 2008-09-06 04:06
  • utax

To the editors ..i'd like to know more about the high-pass filter you supposed to be on the htc!..that's the worst news i could receive! ok, it's not a high fidelity device in any case, but i was already wondering about auto-build a usb to 3,5mm jack with audiophile components for plugging in my hi-fi system......a 100hz high bandpass would be really bad..
Looking forward to a clarification (sorry for my english), really thanks for the great comparison.. Davide

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  • 2008-09-02 17:49
  • nM6D

Just Grab Diamond if you are willing for a PDA !

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  • 2008-09-02 08:26
  • P@93

touch diamond it great phone but the battery bad,I don"t like it because the battery run out fast.they need to do some things

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  • 2008-08-30 10:24
  • a2BT

To The Author,
My only querry is this, is Omnia compatible with LCD Projector for presentation of powerpoint documents? I really need your answer with regards to this. Thank You very much!

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  • 2008-08-28 17:53
  • wHr$

> In reply to Anonymous @ 2008-07-23 18:04 from S9JYIs Omnia capable in LCD projector connection like i-Phone?this will be a great deal since laptop is heavy to bear in class in order to show some powerpoint in LCD projector. Your answer is really appreciated. Thanks!

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  • 2008-08-28 17:13
  • wHr$

> In reply to NAVZ @ 2008-07-18 14:50 from PVspIndonesia. Dont go to the malls. Go to the ITC.

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  • 2008-08-28 17:11
  • uEx1

I have had two diamonds in the space of a week... Damn things full of bugs...All the operator can say is "we'll give you another one..." Oh well!!

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  • 2008-08-26 12:45
  • nFuH

i think htc touch diamond is better than omnia

1) diamond have TouchFLO 3D Home screen better than Omnia's Touchwiz UI

2)diamond have good design which gives better look than omnia

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  • 2008-08-26 10:16
  • PEm%

hey guys.. i'v decided 2 buy an Omnia and was plannin to get the 16gb version. however the retail person at a Samsung Official store told me that the 16gb version is less stable than the 8gb version. is there any truth to that at all?

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  • 2008-08-15 14:23
  • ib67

I have been using the Samsung Omnia for about 3 weeks now and it's really really good. Its battery life lasts about 2 days if I hardly make calls or play with it.
I bought mine in Singapore and realised Australia has not brought Omnia in yet. So many of my friends have been commenting on how sleek this phone is. A great buy!

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  • 2008-08-14 11:48
  • in$h

Who knows whether Omnia supports the other European languages? Thanks

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  • 2008-08-13 14:37
  • p$aM

and BTW, iPhone is worst phone ever. Apple knows what marketing is, but that's all. iTunes loves to freeze, quicktime loves to freeze, and you need both on your computer coz you don'T even have a mass storage in your iPhone. Windows mobile 6.0 added near the STABLE activesync the mem card mass storage mode (e.g. HP IPAQ Voice messenger),but iPhone 3g mass storage? nope, INSTABLE iTunes and quicktime instead. Because of a bug, I had to uninstall my quick time recently, coz I couldn't get a SINGLE MP3 from a link in mozilla, and couldn't tell quicktime, that he's not an online player. (But I'm not a fish at computers) And do you remember your first (and last) iPod? You had a single mp3 player before with mass storage, and only 512MB, but you could change data any time any place with totalcommander, and could use it in a mass storage car audio player. But when you got happy coz of the iPod you realised, that it's a write only device! Once you fill with 4gb can't delete, coz there will be an "other" category instead. Apple proudly told us that now we can use formatting to solve this. Mmm, great. And there were lots of preloaded EQ settings in your iPod none is for Headphones (bass and treble + and middle - would required at least one) And have you ever seen a NORMAL smartphone with unremovable battery? How can people belive that a third party application won't make me to use the screwdriver? Even a PC which is improving from decades can't be safe without unpowering facilities. But a 1 year old smartphone? And you know Apple mobile is a 1 year old thing, but windows mobie is since 2002 (moto mpx200 was still stable) And windows is not like the computer windows, they're now not in the monopoly case, they must improve against symbian, linux, and MacMobile, (and maybe AndroidOS which one I can'T understand also [Then who can???]) that's why windows mobile is more trustable then any earlier and later Microsoft PC products.
Back to the iPhone, I still didn't mention its strangely working bluetooth, and which shows Apple's good marketing is telling 3g as a big upgrade. The new iPhone only knows more with 3g than the previous, which are in the half of the phones in the last 4-5 years. They made bigger words for it then words for the first color displayed phones.
And for final words, don't even forget Apple has been making phones not for long ago. As all could tell Moto's head off using the same menu in all non-smartphones for 5 years, note that it became a stable menu for nowadays with no bugs and misses. As LG and Nokia and Samsung and SE tries to renew their menues always comes out with missings, and new came bugs. Iphone is a much harder case, coz smartphone can do much more stupid things and a nowaday's phone needs too much function for a new system. That's why some brands couldn't come up, and that's why HTC could come up with being the first only Windows Mobile smartphone manufacturer, as they saw, that people won't belive, that they did the best working phone in that short period of time, and as you can see, Eten, Gigabyte, Toshiba Asus and HP followed their right way.

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  • 2008-08-12 00:47
  • nH7t

I was a motofan until it got "disincorporated" by the 3 leading manufacturer brands. I could only accept HTC instead of my motos. Samsung phones are ugly, including Omnia. Megapixel is not a required sumthin over 2. Can you show me a display running larger then 1600x1200? or sheet of paper I can see the loss coz I used an only 3mp camera instead of a 10mp one? And PDA smartphones are not for phototakers, it's for people who love to play solitaire and similar games on the bus or watching South Park on the plane. HTC and Eten woke up: VGA display!!! cheers! I love HTC! Samsung should really learn what design is, they use those 2 ugly colours and designs on 90% of their phones since the d500 which is a 3 or 4 year old phone.

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  • 2008-08-12 00:05
  • nH7t

ohoo ya, i think a lot of you ppl dunno tt actually megapixel of the camera is tt really impt when it comes into printout photo, cos anything above 2 megapixel is consider a HD photo, megapixel is only for the veiwing of photo on ur screen tt's it :) so both camera are actually gd quilty printout :) but if u using omnia, the camera respone quite slow :)

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  • 2008-08-11 10:58
  • F4ps
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