Mobile phone manufacturers are in great trouble these days. Now, it is not only about the call quality and user friendly interface; they have to think about consider MPs of camera and Frames per Sec of videos, supported audio and video formats, EDGE and 3G, GPS and WLAN, motion based gaming and accelerometer, what not and what not. Samsung has tried to offer nice features in all these categories, and has given it the name of Samsung Omnia.

Specs:

• Dimensions: 112 x 56.9 x 12.5 mm
• Weight: 122 g
• Display type: TFT resistive touchscreen, 256K colors (65K effective)
• Display size: 240 x 400 pixels, 3.2 inches
• Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate, optical track pad, Handwriting recognition
• On board memory: 8 GB/16 GB storage
• Card slot: microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB
• OS: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
• CPU: Marvell PXA312 624 MHz processor
• Included software: Microsoft Office , Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008
• RAM: 128 MB
• GPRS: Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
• EDGE: class 12
• 3G: HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps
• WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
• Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
• USB v2.0
• Camera: 5 MP, 2592х1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, Geo-tagging, face and smile detection, image stabilization, wide dynamic range, video
• Secondary video call camera
• Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• GPS with A-GPS support
• Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer)
• MP3/AAC/AAC+/WMA/OGG/AMR player
• DivX/XviD/WMV/MP4 player
• TV out
• Voice memo
• Battery: Standard battery, Li-Ion 1440 mAh
• Standby: Up to 500 h (2G) / 450 h (3G)
• Talk time: Up to 5 h 50 min (2G) / 6 h 30 min (3G)
• Price: $199.99 (subject to variation according to tie and location)

Features

Its touch screen and TouchWiz user interface is the highlighting feature. The 3.2 inches TFT Touchscreen display works nicely, though is not awesome. Entering text has many options; on screen full QWERTY keyboard (called Samsung Keyboard), Block Recognizer, Transcriber etc. With the TouchWiz interface, users are able to customize their home screens with various widgets. There are 16 widgets to choose from.

Wireless connectivity is great with Bluetooth, GPRS, EDGE, 3G and WLAN. GPS is a helping tool supported with aGPS. Nice OS, handy software and multimedia capabilities ad to its charm.

It is equipped with a nice 5 MP camera with digital zoom, flash, auto focus, panorama mode, antishake, face detection, and SmileShot.  You will get three quality settings and six size options in still image mode, 15 shooting modes, white balance adjustment, various effects, ISO settings and 3 quality settings and three size options in video mode.

Pros:

• Spacious Touchscreen
• Nice user interface TouchWiz
• Good camera with nice features
• Win Mo phone

Cons:

• Limited widgets
• Cramped keyboard

Final Words:

Price factor aside, the phone is packed with almost all the required latest features, and is a good performer. Looks and performance have joined together to create Samsung Omnia.

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