Samsung's i900 Omnia gets official, hands-on treatment
By Darren Murph 
posted June 8th 2008 10:54PM
posted June 8th 2008 10:54PM
posted June 8th 2008 10:54PM
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IN before clak coming in here and pouring a bucket of shit all over the discussion to be.
Just ignore him. Seriously.
THAT Looks Absolutely NOTHING like the iPhone !!!
Nice looking screen and specs. This Samsung is about the third iPhone killer they've produced in a couple of months and it won't fare any better than the previous attempts.
it looks like someone took an iphone and puked on it! lol
Hmm, your comment is more realistic if you replace 'girlfriend' with 'mom' and 'sex' with 'a grilled cheese sandwich'. It's kind of like how you pretend to love Apple when we all know you're probably apathetic and just enjoy trolling.
@ clak
Thats CLASSIC!
haha, we should do this every time, seems to shut him up.
Funny how you mention geotagging before you uh... oh wait, nope, you didn't even mention it's got a GPS receiver.
If only I weren't waiting on the iPhone II right now, I'd be all over you. I'm sorry... As tempting as you are, my heart is my iPhone ;(
Damn it!
I had enough trouble choosing between 4 cells...
Too much goodness!!!
KIRF, knock-off, they copied the HiPhone and the Meizu M8...
First...
A few more hours until the real deal...
Not only not first, but not even relevant.
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iEye @ Jun 2nd 2008 7:34PM
"You will not have 1 comment from me relating to any Apple product until the 3G release"
So you lied again, eh?
Lol Nohone..
you just promoted yourself to my personal hero !
Epic win +1
That is gorgeous. Maybe they'll swap out the radio for CDMA, so Verizon users can get it in about four more years or so.
Oh you crafty devil.
I really can't wait to play with these new batch of Windows Mobile phones. Having used the iPhone for a while now I do miss it a bit.
No GPS though... Not missing much I guess.
Straight from the article...
"features since the i900 also packs a built-in GPS receiver"
Ah... That's great! I do beg your pardon.
In that case, it's a very close match against the other new WinMo phones. Very healthy indeed.
Im an iphone guy, but its a good looking phone that has a decent specs. Not a lot to complain about. With all the new "touch" phones coming out, there might be a few differences, but i think it comes down to the interface and which you prefer.
Don't forget customer service too. I hope in the near future Engadget Mobile will write an article about this, and likewise for Engadget with computers (I think it might have been done before, but an updated version would be great).
How thin is it?
That phone have been earning "great" reviews so far.
And that's a good thing. :D
Question I want to own 2 phones this year and with the iphone as one of them. Which phone you guy's think I should choose
HTC Touch Diamond
Samsung i900 Omnia
Sony Xperia X1
I'm just going to wait for a comparison review between the three devices. It'll be a while before the X1 comes out though.
XPERIA... have a phone with a proper keypad.
You should going w/ the HTC Touch Pro Diamond.
HTC is flying under the radar right now w/ all the sh*t they are producing & I soon believe they will earn a prestigious reputation they so well deserve. The phone specs for the Touch Pro are nuts. It includes WiFi and TouchFlo 3D, which triumph over what Samsung's piece has to offer. The slide out 5 row qwerty on the Touch Pro gives HTC another advantage.
Also, in my experience, HTC phones are more stable & reliable than Samsung's.
I don't know much about the Xperia1 but since I don't think that'll be coming out anytime soon, your best comparison right now is just Touch Pro vs i900
I would definately go with the HTC. That touch flo looks pretty nice and I think HTC are the nicest phones, I'm getting the HTC 5800 (S720) on thursday and I guess it's kind of old but it's the nicest one available in my area and free with a 3 year contract too..
wow that almost kills my lust for the new iphone...
ALMOST!
seriously that is slick. I am hoping we see a 5 megapixel on the iphone and geotagging would certainly be nice. This phone would be sick for flickr aficionados...
The would'nt the HTC Touch Diamond Pro be a good choice
@saddler2kx: it's just HTC Touch Pro, no Diamond.
looks like the prada phone
Is it just me or is every new phone exactly like the iPhone in looks? I don't get it, that thing is fugly!
Oh dear, another craptastic iPhone knock off.
Glossy black slate, large screen, 1-2 buttons and only at the bottom of the screen, large silver bezel, etc. Not to mention their UI is a inferior version of the iPhone.
Actually, I'd say that "their UI" is a pretty good version of Windows Mobile 6.1.. But that's just my guess.
if i wasn't hooked on the iphone, and have my iphone 2 lined up, i would definitely consider this as an alternate. well that and the diamond. mmmm
It's a nice looking phone but they have to screw it up with a terrible UI. Sorry. A bad UI is a fail phone for me.
I only have 3 phones in mind at the moment:
HTC Touch Pro
Xperia X1
HTC Dream Android...
I don't know if its an "iPhone Killer" but I do know that the screen automatically perks my interest a LOT.
The problem with all the previous so called "iPhone killers" is that the screen was too damn small.
However 3.2 vs 3.5 isn't too much of a difference. Does anyone know which resolution is better? This phone or the iPhone?
Needs more clocks.
Yes, but does it make calls? ;)
(Seriously, it's the only thing I buy a phone FOR...)
Haha, you are awesome.
400 x 240 resolution?
iFail.
iphones suck... I have been using mine since Nov, and it is boring and the only limitations were obvious money stallers... the market (me included) sucked up 1st gen's even though they lacked features in cheaper phones (3G, voice dial, push email, GPS, chat) because it was an Apple.
Apple made a fortune, and took in acclaim they didn't deserve for pushing a half baked device to market, and now they are going to rape (is it rape if the victims are willingly bending over?) the consumers again with iphone 2 that only has one major feature upgrade. Like stealing candy from a baby... Jobs can sell sh!t to a farmer...
The only good thing that has come from the iphone is that it kicked those starched WinMo (based) engineers into the oh so rare creativity mode and now they are offering better devices! So now I can have all the good things about the iphone, and none of the bad... most notably being poned by Steve'o!
That's your fault for buying it knowing full well it lacks so many thing. I was very close to buying the first version but I knew they were milking the first version and are adding stuff to the second version so that it force some people to upgrade to that. They could've done that with the first version but choose not to so pretty much they knew what they were doing and that is to rake in the money.
Screw da iPhone!
This has an 5 mp camera + gps recevier!
well i think this one has a fair chance at "killing" the i phone. but as far as looks. i think this one looks the best. now alltel can get their hands on it before the verizon buy out.... which might i say is rediculas. just because alltel is better... lol
The phrase "iPhone killer" will soon become one that's only used in an ironic context, sort of like "iPod killer".
Nevertheless, this is nice hardware. WinMobile ruins it of course, you can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig.
What's so funny is that it's only clueless users who use the description "x"-killer, whether x is ipod, windows or whatever with a large market- or mindshare. It takes time to change the current status que, no matter how awsome product you may have.
In fact, I wish I would have some kind of electronic device which allowed me to punch people in the face over the internet everytime they used the expression "x"-killer.
This is already out in the UK - i saw it yesterday in an O2 shop on contract.
Cheapest price was around 150£