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Thinking of buying Samsung Omnia but need to know how other users find this latest touch-screen mobile phone from Samsung.



Here's some of the comments contributed by Samsung Omnia users at the Wassup blog.

Samsung i900 Omnia, sold without user manual to hide fault with phone. No user manual was found on any of samsung website.

The NavFone is place on the 1GB expended memory because the expended memory cannot support 8GB as it claim. I try putting 2GB and it start to stall.

The functionality takes some getting use to as there is just so much great stuff on the phone. My only peeve is the battery life. I understand that large display phones (N95 and the like) will always draw a large amount of battery life however, I cannot understand why my phone is always hot.

Omnia phone look cool but the touch screen not as good as F480 samsung if omnia touch screen can improve that will be great.

No iphone in Malaysia yet, so i bought samsung OMNIA even though I am a Mac lover. It costs me about RM2799. It works great and i am happy with this new gadget.

My Omnia also encounter this problem, after watching a 10 min video clip, the phone start to warm...

Why Omnia can only read 1 Telephone/Handphone number in Sim Contacts? Usually we stored 2 number “Mobile” & “Home” but the displaying only listed 1 number only then where’s another numbers goes?? This phone is complicated while setting ringtones & update new no. to sim contact

I juz bought a Omnia.. what i dun like abt the phone is the side slot of the USB. If you want to hear music, the side slot door needs to be opened (located at bottom left) for you to slot the USB headset jack. this leaves the slot door at a very fragile edge and with the side door in this location, I dun dare put the phone in the pants pocket for fear of breaking the side slot door. This is poor design as compared with iphone where its very conveniently located at the top and no door for the headset jack.

And this is what I think is the most very comprehensive Omnia Review so far:

Hi, I’m a new Omnia owner (and still using my N95 8GB, previously N93, SX1). As a seasoned Symbian user (and an Ex-PPC user) the Omnia with it’s Windows Mobile interface took a while to get used to, but after that, it BLEW ME AWAY.

Besides being a great phone, it came with even more cool things than my Symbian phones could ever do.

Pros:
1. Plays back almost any media I could throw at it, even HD video
2. Radio is very clear
3. User Interface is highly customisable (I recommend getting the spb that makes it feel like the htc touch).
4. PIM is highly usable and the Smart Reader scans business cards with 99% accuracy (the odd spelling error)
5. Loads of fun software to put inside it’s massive 16GB storage.
6. 8GB MicroSDHC works perfectly well.
7. mini mouse pad works well too
8. Opera (nuff said)
9. Lots of Camera options, … even slow-motion video.
9a. Smile detection is brilliant, as is the multi-face tracking.
10. Photo slideshow (Digital Frame) is brilliant! Even has ken burns effect like in the iPhoto.
11. Office Mobile!
12. GPS!
13. Able to shut down all running programs…. I’m used to this since PPC days, however, having a dedicated hw button is useful.
14. Auto Screen Rotate works (sometimes too well)
15. Auto backlight adjustment is spot on

Cons.
1. Screen should have been VGA
1a. Screen should have better visibility to handle sunlight
2. Should have a mini audio jack
3. Video Recording has major artifacting issues and jerky at VGA resolution.
4. Should come with more games.
5. Podcast handling is subpar (The N95 did it brilliantly).
6. It hangs….. sometimes (as did my N95).
7. GPS is less accurate than in the N95 8GB, and bundled software isn’t very good.

Having said all that, it would be hard to go back to anything without a touch screen…

And as an iphone killer…. maybe it is, maybe it isn’t, but I’m loving my phone…. every moment of it!

Read the rest of the comments on Samsung Omnia at

http://wassup.myblog.sg/2008/06/26/samsung-i900-omnia-new-iphone-3g-killer/

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Could someone please outline here how to upgrade firmware for the Samsung OMNIA.