Philippine Cell Phones

It is a candy bar phone, so the back is a solid black shell, the front a silver and charcoal frame around a 3.2 inch touchscreen. There are only three buttons on the front. The first two, shaped like a filled box and an empty box, are menu open and menu close buttons, the equivalent of what would be usually a green and a red button on a traditional phone. (It’s not clear why Samsung, other than for style reasons, would change this standard.) The final button – in the bottom middle of the front – isn’t so much a button as it is a very small touchpad. Run your finger over it and it will scroll the current item or menu in the desired direction. The phone will vibrate slightly when you do, like the phone rang briefly, with a low-pitch, accompanying “thud” sound. The pad itself was smaller than my pinky.

Atop the phone are the reset and power buttons. On the right side are the quick keys for the main menu, the volume control and the camera/camcorder switch. On the left side is an all-purpose port for power and data transfer cords. Finally, there is a small camera lens on the back tucked behind a plastic cover.

The Samsung Omnia is a GSM/GPRS/EDGE phone, tri-band 900, 1800, and 1900 MHz, and is available in America through Verizon. The Internet browsing was rather creaky through traditional cell towers, but the Omnia can also use Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

Specifications

Dimensions: 4.4″ (H) x 2.24″ (W) x 0.52″ (D)
Weight: 4.34 oz
Processor: MSM6800A
Standard Battery – 1440 mAh
Usage: Up to 346 minutes OR
Standby: Up to 464 hours
SAR information: Head: 1.31 W/kg; Body: 1.11 W/kg
Hearing Aid Compatibility = M4

Features

Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
Rev. A Capable
Microsoft® Office Word Mobile, Excel® Mobile, and PowerPoint® Mobile; Adobe® Reader® LE PDF viewer
View, edit, create Word and Excel files; view only PowerPoint and PDF files; view, extract, create ZIP files
Opera™ Mobile browser
Wi–Fi Capable
Windows Media® Player Mobile
Memory: 256MB Flash/128MB RAM
(+ 8GB of additional internal memory)
Bluetooth® Wireless Technology (v2.0) including A2DP for Stereo
3.2″ Display: 240×400 pixel; 64K color TFT
Optical Mouse Navigation
Advanced touch screen with customizable Widgets
5.0 megapixel camera w/auto–focus, zoom and video capture
microSD™ memory support (up to 16GB)
Voice command capable
Speakerphone
Business Card Reader
Security locking features
Text, Picture and Video messaging (MMS)
Wireless Sync capable
ActiveSync® (v4.5) and Windows Mobile Device Center®
BroadbandAccess Connect capable

The Samsung Omnia uses Windows Media 6.1, so Microsoft Outlook and other products are built in. They are on par with similar devices. Microsoft ActiveSync – a quick installation – will match your calendar, email and so on.

Less smooth is the “keyboard,” which actually uses an archaic multikey format. For example, going on the Internet to visit Yahoo! required tapping the virtual “w” key, then tapping on a series of likely letter combinations to find “ww,” again to find “www.,” and then starting the process over again to spell yahoo and the final com. It doesn’t help that the web seems to creep along – even on uber-popular sites like Yahoo! – unless you are in Wi-Fi range.

The multimedia visuals and speakers look and sound great – no weak screen and speakers here. Less impressive is the synchronization. To play your multimedia, you must find the search for files option under the menu and wait for the phone to find your goodies. It is a small detail, but the additional step makes absolutely no sense. Why not make it automatic, since there is no logical reason why someone would download multimedia from their computer onto the phone unless it was going to be used?

The 5.0-megapixel camera is as lush as it sounds. Though packed with icons, the camera setup is smooth and intuitive – you can go as deep as you like. Held horizontally, the options line either side of the screen while the middle gives a view of the action. Tap the touchpad and it takes a quick flick which can be trashed, emailed as an attachment or just saved. The only thing missing is a flash, but in most cases it seemed unnecessary.

Via i4u

This is said to be released at july this year, let us hope for the best and see this mobile for our own eyes this july.