Samsung i900 Omnia - iPhone's biggest competition?

dmn

Details from http://www.gsmarena.com
SAMSUNG i900 - Announced June 9th 2008 - Expected release June/July '08
2G Network - GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network - HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100
Dimensions 112 x 56.9 x 12.5 mm
Weight 127 g
Display Type TFT touchscreen, 65K colors
Size 240 x 400 pixels, 3.2 inches
Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
Handwriting recognition
Ringtones Type Polyphonic, MP3
Vibration Yes
Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Practically unlimited
Card slot microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB
- 128 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM
- 624MHz Marvell PXA312 processor
- 8 GB/16 GB internal memory
Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
HSCSD No
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port No
USB Yes, v2.0
Features OS Microsoft Window Mobile 6.1 Professional
Messaging SMS, EMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
Games Yes + Java downloadable
Colors Silver
Camera 5 MP, 2592х1944 pixels, autofocus, image stabiliser, video, flash; secondary videocall camera
- Built-in GPS receiver
- Java MIDP 2.0
- FM Radio with RDS
- MSOffice document viewer
- MP3/AAC/AAC+/WMA/OGG/AMR player
- DivX/XviD/WMV/MP4 player
- TV Out
- Voice memo
- Built-in handsfree

CantGetNoSleep

Looks good, I might get myself one of these if the price is better than the I-Phone

jimmycrackcorm

Ok - this is my next phone :Drool:

drunkmonkey

The LG KU990 (Viewty) has outsold the iphone nearly 10 to 1 in europe....aka the iphone killer!!

Samsung have a bit to go yet before they catch up wit LG in the touchscreen department...

Nice phone, pity it's not an lg;)

Wibbs

Nice phone and should be more fully featured than an iPhone. I would say the biggest thing the iphone has going for it is it's OS. It's less clunky than the windows OS. Plus as it's basically a cut down version of the Mac desktop OS it will likely improve far quicker.

jimmycrackcorm

drunkmonkey wrote: »

The LG KU990 (Viewty) has outsold the iphone nearly 10 to 1 in europe....aka the iphone killer!!

Samsung have a bit to go yet before they catch up wit LG in the touchscreen department...

Nice phone, pity it's not an lg;)

This is an upgrade option for me but no GPS and I found the interface very clunky. Nice phone though especially for watching movies.

art

That "today" screen they are showing there is a mess, real turn off. Nice enough look to the hardware but not impressive software.

jimmycrackcorm

art wrote: »

That "today" screen they are showing there is a mess, real turn off. Nice enough look to the hardware but not impressive software.

The youtube video links in gsmarena demonstrate the "today~" screen much better showing how you configure it with a swipe of the finger.

Frankmagnet

Will windows mobile 6 work with a macbook, Thinking of getting both the onmia and macbook at xmas and wondering if they are compatible?

Jimbo

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

This is an upgrade option for me but no GPS and I found the interface very clunky. Nice phone though especially for watching movies.

Is it available on an Irish network? I can't seem to find any.

god's toy

Got one a few days ago. Yep I do like!

Using it for PDA is so handy. One thing, don't upgrade your firmware yet as the rom is kinda buggy.

Getting it to work with 3 for Internet was fine but MMS is tricky.


So far so good.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

Is this for sale in Ireland now?

god's toy

Dont think so, not seen it anywhere yet anyway.
I got mine on Ebay.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

god's toy wrote: »

Dont think so, not seen it anywhere yet anyway.
I got mine on Ebay.

Dammit :mad:

Anybody know when this is coming out over here?

h57xiucj2z946q

The Nokia Tube is nice.

Jimbo

After enquiring to Vodafone about this phone, this is the response I got:

Dear Mr
Thank you for contacting us with your query. Currently we have novplans in releasing the Samsung i900. If you have any further queries, please call us on FreeFone 1907 andwe will be happy to assist you.
Yours sincerely
_________________________

Vodafone Customer Care Team

I wonder are any other providers planning on releasing it?

godskitchen

I had a play with this phone in a Vodafone shop oer here in London today...................

Its clunky, thats the best way of putting it. Its not that nice on the eye as a phone and the interface is slow as hell.

Moving between contacts and sms for example, there is massive lag, about 3 seconds.

Once past the Samsung interface, WinMo 6.1 looks utter rubbish, with bad integration of the touch interface.

An example of this is when you have to use the scroll bar to move around!!! Why cant I just drag the screen?

Have a look on youtube to see what I mean about the clunkyness of the interface.

Poor phone.

xbox36016

still get a iphone samsung phones are so s.hit

strecker

jimbo78 wrote: »

After enquiring to Vodafone about this phone, this is the response I got:



I wonder are any other providers planning on releasing it?

as samsung slapped on their touchwhiz ui to improve on the finger-unfriendly wm ui, I would not buy the omnia from any network that then messes with the firmware it can only go wrong - check what happened to samsung's f700 and vodafone: once unbranded it's much much faster!
Buy the omnia sim free...

as to the complaints about the slow ui reported by some: it IS a wm device, and like windows on your desktop it requires regular unjunking
I'm not surprised if a phoneshop trial model is slow with countless wm "virgins" trying it! The browser cache alone can quickly accumulate megamegamegabytes of rubbish in no time...
Treated well, wm devices can be stopped from getting slower/laggy

chrislad

drunkmonkey wrote: »

The LG KU990 (Viewty) has outsold the iphone nearly 10 to 1 in europe....aka the iphone killer!!

Samsung have a bit to go yet before they catch up wit LG in the touchscreen department...

Nice phone, pity it's not an lg;)

Probably because it's about 120e less than the cheapest iPhone, plus it's available on more than one network per country. The Viewty is nowhere near as good as the iPhone for what the iPhone does (web, music, touch screen). Better camera, and better options for video player (ie DivX support) but for the most part, I'd rather have the iPhone each time.

strecker

drunkmonkey wrote: »

The LG KU990 (Viewty) has outsold the iphone nearly 10 to 1 in europe....aka the iphone killer!!

Samsung have a bit to go yet before they catch up wit LG in the touchscreen department...

Nice phone, pity it's not an lg;)

ahem... Samsung and Motorola rule the world-wide touchscreen phone market with shares of 33 and 30% respectively! Apple are piffle players...heck piffle-niche players! Don't believe the hype, man from the big banana !!! LG have waaaaaaay to go also! Us Europeans are not getting half the goodies, and if we did, we'd shrug off the iphone as "that gadget malware device" that it is

omb0wyn5ehpij9

I got fed up waiting for this to be released so just bought a tocco!

Jimbo

Bryn wrote: »

I got fed up waiting for this to be released so just bought a tocco!

Im also sick of waiting.
Is the tocco any good?
Im torn between it and the Samung U900

xbox36016

no get a iphone than

NeoRox

jimbo78 wrote: »

Im also sick of waiting.
Is the tocco any good?
Im torn between it and the Samung U900

From my experience with the Tocco no, had two of them in the space of a week. Sound was dodgy on the first on and the battery on the second. Enjoyed the touch screen though. Went back to a nokia, I think they are releasing a touch screen phone either late this year or early next.

Have no experience of the U900

jammer84

god's toy wrote: »

Got one a few days ago. Yep I do like!

Using it for PDA is so handy. One thing, don't upgrade your firmware yet as the rom is kinda buggy.

Getting it to work with 3 for Internet was fine but MMS is tricky.


So far so good.

Where can the firmware be located for the Samsung Omnia. I bought a vodafone omnia here in ireland and I cannot figure out where to get a firmware update.

cheers

STBR

drunkmonkey wrote: »

The LG KU990 (Viewty) has outsold the iphone nearly 10 to 1 in europe....aka the iphone killer!!

Samsung have a bit to go yet before they catch up wit LG in the touchscreen department...

Nice phone, pity it's not an lg;)

REALLY?

Wow.

I just bought the successor to the Viewty - the Renoir.

So maybe that'll happen with this too.

What a phone.

So much better than th iPhone. Haha.

STBR

Get an LG Renoir - It's better than any of the phones mentioned here.

Hands down.

strecker

jammer84 wrote: »

Where can the firmware be located for the Samsung Omnia. I bought a vodafone omnia here in ireland and I cannot figure out where to get a firmware update.

cheers

http://mysamsungomnia.wordpress.com/

jimmyjim11

Bryn wrote: »

Dammit :mad:

Anybody know when this is coming out over here?

Seen one in Vodafone shop € 499 i think RTG with a massive €20 FREE credit :pac::pac:

Any one buy on E-bay ?

mkennedy

strecker wrote: »

ahem... Samsung and Motorola rule the world-wide touchscreen phone market with shares of 33 and 30% respectively! Apple are piffle players...heck piffle-niche players! Don't believe the hype, man from the big banana !!! LG have waaaaaaay to go also! Us Europeans are not getting half the goodies, and if we did, we'd shrug off the iphone as "that gadget malware device" that it is

Motorola and touchscreen??
I woulda thought the major players in the touchscreen market would have been Samsung and HTC- (definitely in the wm market anyway) and palm i suppose.

As for the iphone, i dunno but i always thought moto liked to do the non-touchscreen smartphones.
(now that i think of it, they have got a couple of touchscreen devices that are big-ish in the US don't they).

strecker

mkennedy wrote: »

Motorola and touchscreen??
I woulda thought the major players in the touchscreen market would have been Samsung and HTC- (definitely in the wm market anyway) and palm i suppose.

As for the iphone, i dunno but i always thought moto liked to do the non-touchscreen smartphones.
(now that i think of it, they have got a couple of touchscreen devices that are big-ish in the US don't they).

Check out this one:
http://forums.ixplora.com/index.php?showtopic=4047

BostonB

I've used Omnia and the Tocco. The screens on both of them aren't very good for touch sensitivity. I can't use them at all. The iPhones I've tried I have no problem. Things like that you can't judge from just comparing specs.