Samsung Omnia: test
You know the Apple iPhone? Put a 5 Mpixel camera, doubling the data bandwidth HSDPA (here to 7.2 Mbit per second) add a slot for memory expansion, install Windows Mobile 6.1 instead of MacOs and get the Samsung Omnia.
It is true, is not the case. Perhaps (indeed, no doubt) have exaggerated. But surely the comparison can give you an idea of what we have to do. Ah yes, because for good or evil that is the idea behind the project of Samsung to build a better dell’iPhone iPhone. For good, because the technical dell’Omnia are superlative. Bad because he wanted to pursue the mobile phone of Apple puts on its soil to bare the limits of the touch screen of Windows, although here is enhanced and personalized by the multinational Seoul. But Let the details.
A heart from a formula
The Omnia, as the name (which in Latin means “everything”), did not use a favorite, but acts as a handyman at your service. This is why Samsung has made a Marvell heart that beats at a frequency of 620 MHz are supported The 128 MB of RAM memory, but especially to 8 GB hard disk to install all the programs you want (but also and especially to store any kind of media: music, pictures and video.) The new Korean quadribanda also has a slot for increasing the space available to the viewer through microSDHC cards (standard covering cuts up to 32 GB, although at the time the producers have brought memory cards with 16 GB of capacity). In short, the processing power is not a problem at the moment it is difficult to find something on the market faster.
The graphical interface
The dominant element of the new Omnia of course the display is 3.2 inches diagonal, 16:9, which houses the new user interface touch. The system uses Widgets, icons placed on a sliding band on the main screen of the mobile phone and being dragged into a choice of display to be used.
There are several types: there is the one with the clock, the one to manage the radio functions, notes, calendar, games, the player multiemdiale, address book and several others. Each touch of the display, the Omnia responds with a short vibration for confirmation.
How it works
Once done with the custom icons and virtual keyboards and digital alphabet, you will be satisfied with the system of control: fluid slide menus with a touch of fingers and use the experience is gratifying. For some applications will have to use the stylus to command (which does not have a slot in the chassis but is linked to a smartphone mo ‘of pendant), and perhaps this is what they like less of this custom Windows from Samsung.
The integrated GPS chip is compatible with most navigation software on the market today. You will not have trouble choosing the solution for you.
Very good opportunity to load film in Divx format without having to convert them to watch the display view. The phone has no flaws, the audio is good, as the signal reception.
Ultimately it is an excellent smartphone for power, speed and richness of applications, but that would be outstanding if it had a design a little ‘lighter (in the hand gives the impression of making a tile) and, especially, if it were able to overcome yet the limits imposed by Windows in touch technology. This is confirmed by the browser, Opera 9.5 and is allowing a navigation similar to that of a PC at home. The layout of the pages is perfect. The only new mechanism is to zoom the page, sometimes accidentally press a link (and this is the strength of its iPhone competitor, thanks to multitouch display) and you get the opposite effect to that desired: instead of enlarge a portion of the page will be transferred elsewhere. But with a little ‘experience it is possible to limit the mistakes of this kind.
Finally a look at the price: 499 euro but there are few seem appropriate for the Ommi is able to offer. It ‘the same price dell’iPhone 8GB!. The Omnia – always as the iPhone – is also available in a version with 16 GB of memory. In this case the price rises to 599 euros (more than that charged for the equivalent Apple model) but need to take into account that the Omnia 16 GB has integrated satellite navigation system Route 66 and the maps of all Europe. All this preloaded on a microSD 8GB included.
