Samsung Omnia i900 Smartphone
The Samsung Omnia i900 is a light Smartphone, boasts a 5 megapixel camera and GPS. The Omnia i900 has a good 3.2 inch touchscreen, which is smaller than Apple’s iPhone but is big enough to see complicated websites clearly.
The Omnia is classy to look at thanks to a chrome-effect bezel and a dusky mirrored surround for the screen. The front face features just three buttons: send (to make a call), end and an optical joystick. The brushed black rear face is interrupted only by the very powerful camera.
The user interface is uses Samsung’s Touchwiz user interface. This has an arrowed tab at the left of the screen. A quick touch on the tab brings out a sidebar ribbon featuring various application widgets. You can drag these widgets using a finger onto the main area of the screen (the desktop I suppose we should call it) and drop them wherever you please. A finger tap then launches the application. You can drag the widget back to the ribbon if you no longer need it.
The Samsung Omnia i900 is Free on an 18-month plan with Carphone Warehouse
What this means is that you can customise your home screen far more than many of the other touchscreen phones out there, although there is no way to add new applications to the ribbon. Weather and share price widgets are sadly lacking. The Omnia also comes with a stylus, which you can anchor to a hook on the top left edge of the handset.
The Samsung Omnia i900 is a bit like the iPhone with it’s animated grid of coloured quick launch icons. The Microsoft Office Mobile applications offering excellent support for email attachments. As you would expect too, the Omnia supports push email using all of the major systems, including Exchange Server.
We believe that the Omnia is an object of desire to compete with the iPhone.
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