http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 10:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 6th 2009 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 6th 2009 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 6th 2009 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/
Italian women for the win]]>Jul 5th 2009 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/
Furthermore, the oversimplification of devices of today, and not just the iPhone, as being "just phones" is just incomprehensible for me. Surely there is a difference between an iPhone, an LG Xenon, and a Nokia 1100.]]>Jul 5th 2009 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 6th 2009 3:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/
A phone, made by Samsung, looks a lot like a phone made by SAMSUNG? Must be KIRF]]>Jul 6th 2009 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/
You do NOT need a compiler change to take advantage of ARMv7's 1.5-2x speed increase in terms of integer computations at all. Dual issue and speculative OOO are not extensions, they are an integral part of how the CPU computes.

Do you need a new Windows version to make the Core 2 Duo faster in tasks against the Pentium 4? To take advantage of u-ops fusion and its 4-issue width, or its aggressive prefetch mechanisms?

And no, stop painting the picture that Android/OSX Mobile even uses the streaming extensions on ARMv7. Apple just like the others, are in for the integer performance increase. Palm might adapt it later on if it needs it, but not for now.

WM's slowness is attributed to the handset makers just slapping the software on top of the hardware and expect it to work with full blast, like the early demos of the Toshiba TG01. The newest builds of WM6.5 near-unanimously solve all of these problems.

This is why some newer Qualcomm ARMv6 phones (the 2 newest HTCs) are comparatively blazing fast even on the WM6.1 pig (of which 6.5 is even faster in most cases). And this is all still based off the "vintage" CE 5.x core.




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I really like what I saw though. The UI still needs cleaning up, but Samsung is doing a pretty good job overlaying WinMo. I especially like the music app. Very nice.]]>Jul 6th 2009 1:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/
What I do not understand is all the fanfare about Android? I get that it has a lot of potential but it's a fledgling OS with lots of improvements ahead of it. And as far as aesthetics go, it's FAIL. Again, I know it is potentially awesome, but in its current state, to me, not so much. Why do find Android so appealing? (I understand your WebOS love - it totally rocks my goddamn socks.)
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That cracked me up. I bet that Apple Kool-Aid is pretty good stuff, huh?]]>Jul 5th 2009 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/The problem I have is th ridiculous quirky beeps when a button is pushed. This isn't
1980 video game pop time. There could have been a better job done there for sure. ]]>Jul 5th 2009 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 6th 2009 12:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Copy and paste is a revolutionary feature by Apple, mate...I see!

I think you forgot to pull your head outta your iButthole!]]>Jul 5th 2009 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/
Maybe your 32nd account will come with an intelligence upgrade.]]>Jul 5th 2009 10:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 10:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/
Unfortunately, it seems to be extremely rare that a company bothers to actually remedy stuff like this before launch.]]>Jul 5th 2009 10:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/
I must say your the stupidest fanboy i've seen for a while. One the touchscreen is due to the hardware not software (even then its not the first device) and less restrictions and downloadable apps? Seriously? Research please. LOL]]>Jul 5th 2009 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.modaco.com/category/405/i910-specific-omnia-rom-discussion/ read for 30 minutes then flash your phone to a custom ROM. I have an Omnia at work on Bgill55's 6.5 Rom v3.0 M2D, runs smooth as silk plus HTC's M2D and TF3D UI is one of the best out there.]]>Jul 6th 2009 12:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 11:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 5th 2009 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 6th 2009 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 6th 2009 12:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/05/samsung-omnia-ii-and-the-case-of-the-musical-guided-tour/Jul 8th 2009 10:59PM