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Samsung i900 Omnia review: The whole nine yards

25 July 2008 | Read the review | Post your comment
Samsung i900 Omnia review: The whole nine yards - read the full textNow that the dust of the Diamond vs. Omnia PocketPC battle settles down, our up close and personal look at the rivals continues with Samsung i900 Omnia. Slick looks, great feature-pack and ingenious software solutions are things that hold true...

 

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If thats so i dont want that phone anymore !!!

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  • 2008-07-29 10:49
  • mKD9

verry strange i hate that :-(

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  • 2008-07-29 09:52
  • mKD9

> In reply to Coennos @ 2008-07-29 09:42 from mKD9 - click to readYoutube - No.

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  • 2008-07-29 09:49
  • p1M{

Can you watch you tube yes ore now

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  • 2008-07-29 09:42
  • mKD9

isnt there any youtube client for WM6 that doenst require the FL3?
N95 just got FL3 in its last firmware update, before that there were several clients that download the .flv from youtube and play without problem.

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  • 2008-07-29 04:36
  • PnY5

> In reply to kölner @ 2008-07-28 14:03 from S9PD - click to readBased on the latest review (The whole nine yards), I don't think the back is made of aluminum. Under design and construction (2) you can see the back of it. It looks like it is made of plastic.
Maybe I'm wrong because I haven't seen the Omnia yet, but my impression is that the back is made of plastic.

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  • 2008-07-28 22:16
  • nimf

> In reply to Yts @ 2008-07-28 13:49 from pRJ5 - click to read@YTS

I would be inclined to agree to a certain degree, but I would say that not having tested the phone, and not having tried to install any programs, I should maybe reserve judgement until I have.

I'm gonna get this phone as soon as it comes out in the UK and no doubt I'll be sharing my experiences on here.

Bottom line is, surely Samsung couldn't make such a catastrophic balls-up and I would expect the Omnia will be able to cope with most programs with a 320x240 resolution.

The flash issues aren't really a problem to me as I don't do a great deal of web browsing. Although I guess its a disaster for all the youtubers out there........

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  • 2008-07-28 17:56
  • Siaq

Please help me.

Does the backcover consist of Aluminum?

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  • 2008-07-28 14:03
  • S9PD

so after all the brillant display and interface of the omnia is just to paly some games !!!
You can't fully display an internet page with flash player
You can't install any Prog on the windows mobile cuz of resolution issue
SO I can't get
WHAT IS THE ADVANTAGE OF THE WINDOWS MOBILE !
it feels like we have a very good SOFTWARE and an Awesome HARDWARE but with stupid chemistry in between ! Share your opinions plz

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  • 2008-07-28 13:49
  • pRJ5

> In reply to totti @ 2008-07-28 03:16 from LJB4 - click to readCurrently Skype doesn't run on Windows Mobile 6.1 devices. You can always use Fring as a substitute for the time being.

I'm not sure whether it would have compatibility issues with the Omnia widescreen display, but no one can test that either as it can't be run.

The Omnia runs fine with Route66 and Nav N Go iGo 8, so my guess is TomTom would run just as fine.

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  • 2008-07-28 13:21
  • 0BiV

> In reply to Yts @ 2008-07-28 00:04 from pRJ5 - click to readYou can't do anything about flash. You just have to hope that either Opera or Samsung come up with it and deliver it through an update. (Or hope for adobe to release it for public download, but that's rather unlikely at the moment)

widescreens aren't that common with windows mobile devices. so a lot of software doesn't support widescreen resolution and simply won't work or won't display properly.

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  • 2008-07-28 11:18
  • n{Fn

Any issue regards to playing games?

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  • 2008-07-28 09:45
  • F6bE

what is the problem with this phone resolution I can't get it

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  • 2008-07-28 05:38
  • pRJ5

Hi there,
What's the firmware version for this demo, I got the phone with 1900dxhf8 and I would like to update to the version showed in the demo.
Regards,
Hlov

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  • 2008-07-28 04:52
  • PQaB

please i whant to buy this phone but i have some cuestions(and i google a lot!) and dont have find the answere:
1) is skype compatible whit this phone(because of the resolution)
2) is tomtom compatible(because of the resolution)(i think that the 7.45 or something like that is compatible, can someone confirm me this)

i ask these cuestions, because i have read in a couple of forums that a lot of programs are having probles whit this phone.
thanks

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  • 2008-07-28 03:16
  • LJB4

im empress with the quality of the camera, sharp and clean.

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  • 2008-07-28 01:15
  • w0QV

> In reply to Crow @ 2008-07-27 22:19 from n{Fn - click to readI misunderstood you. Thought you said fl3 was not available at all. My bad.

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  • 2008-07-28 01:14
  • PnY5

so what are the final words ! Is there a way the OMNIA can view any flash page ? or what can I do to make it has that flash lite 3 !
Come on guys almost every internet page now has a flash interface !

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  • 2008-07-28 00:04
  • pRJ5

> In reply to Anonymous @ 2008-07-27 21:07 from PnY5 - click to readyeah, it got fl3 through a firmware update this march. so what...

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  • 2008-07-27 22:19
  • n{Fn

> In reply to Crow @ 2008-07-27 19:17 from n{Fn - click to readn95 has flash lite 3 officially

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  • 2008-07-27 21:07
  • PnY5
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