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Reviewer: Cutestmofo - Saint Lucia
Date: 13th May 2010

I currently own a Samsung i900 an initially I thought this phone was horrible when I first got it & then I installed the WM 6.5 ROM & then all that changed. It is the greatest most powerful phone I have every owned. Push email works perfectly, my messenger is flawless, & anything I can think of I can get it on my i900 currently I have a new media player, PS1 & VGBA emulators they work flawlessly. Battery reduces quickly however up still 40% after which the 40 last considerably long. In my opinion it's all about what you want in your phone everything I didn't like I changed now I have no complaints if you hate the browser get another, hate the scrolling update your ROM, hate the media player change it, hate the virtual keyboard again change it, hate the interface change it. After you do you find an incredible phone, I sure did.

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Reviewer: Kim Graham - Newcastle, UK
Date: 12th May 2010

DON'T BUY IT! The phone is so unreliable as well as being incredibly complicated to use, even for the most basic of functions. The Internet doesn't work consistently then it will be emails, then call functions & message functions. My phone has not worked properly since the day I got it & is currently back in for the fifth time to be repaired! Stuck in a dreadful contract now with a standby phone. Don't waste your money!

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Reviewer: K - UK
Date: 28th Mar 2010

The most unreliable phone I have ever owned! The handset looks great & what the phone is meant to do is great. However, it does nothing that it says on the tin. It can save no more than 20 photos with 4 songs, once you have mastered the extremely difficult task of getting them onto your phone.

The Internet, if it connects at all, will constantly freeze after 5 minutes. Emails are unreliable. I have had two as my first was replaced. When I spoke to someone from Carphone Warehouse they said this was a common problem. Infuriating! Don't bother, go for an iPhone!

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Reviewer: Alasdair - Glasgow, UK
Date: 16th Feb 2010

I don't understand all these rave reviews for this phone. I used to have a BlackBerry but that's lying somewhere on the hard shoulder of the M6 & this Omnia is possibly about to join it.

The battery life is terrible, it freezes, the touch screen is constantly going out of alignment & is clumsy without the stylus (which broke after a few months). I constantly hang up on people taking it out of my pocket & it consistently has problems with Internet access requiring reset.

It is a beautiful phone & it has a lot of features. It would just be nice to be able to use them.

Also the 5MP Camera is great if you have a tripod but I find unless you're in natural light outside it blurs terribly & is slow to respond.

Perhaps for personal use this phone would be OK but if you're wanting a handset for daily business use & it needs to last a full day battery wise stay clear.

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Reviewer: Adam Harnick - Liverpool, UK
Date: 12th Jan 2010

I love this phone. May not be a good idea to download third party software & components. Sadly you can't download any widgets, but the preinstalled widgets are very reliable. The Windows Mobile theme can be boring sometimes & sometimes unreliable in terms of fast & effective usage, thats why its better to stick with the preinstalled Samsung Themes.

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Reviewer: Eddie Fuad - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Date: 19th Dec 2009

FANTASTIC PHONE. ONE OF IT'S KIND.

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Reviewer: Jonathan David - UK
Date: 22nd Nov 2009

Having been a Nokia fan I acquired the Omnia in April. I just loved the way it looked. With the benefit of hind sight that is not a good reason for buying the phone. I came to hate the stylus, I couldn't use it outside in sunny conditions & by October it had been returned on 4 occasions due to software problems. Vodafone who provided the phone were excellent & were happy to agree to exchange the phone for a blackberry storm 2.This is a much classier phone, no stylus, can use it outside & feels like it will last forever. I guess time will only tell.

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Reviewer: Ged Fitzgerald - Bath, UK
Date: 2nd Oct 2009

I loved this phone when new but steadily I have had problems with poor battery life & slow response times when using the keyboard. Now 1 year on I hate the thing & would not recommend it for business purposes. It is not user friendly & it seems to slow right down with time. Buy it on a short term contract only & you won't be disappointed. Keep it for 18 months & you will.

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Reviewer: Charlie - UK
Date: 28th Sep 2009

Worst phone I have ever bought. Scratches very easily, scrolling in contacts is difficult keeps opening unwanted numbers, quick dial is very hard to scroll, web browsing slow.

I was recommended this phone, but it is not worth the money or hassle.

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Reviewer: As - UK
Date: 23rd Jul 2009

Having wrote my first review on this phone in December I would like to update others on how much potential this phone has.

First of all, if you want a phone that works fast, perfect, trouble free get the iPhone. However, you cannot customize it, you need an Internet connection for virtually everything & it costs a bomb.

The Omnia has windows mobile which means its customisable to the max.

Before you slate the phone see the following websites which tells you how you can speed up, customize, tweak your Omnia to however you like.

I would recommend you to install the following apps & make sure you install to My Storage (NOT MY DEVICE).
- SPB Mobile Shell 3 (highly customisable User Interface)
- Nitrogen MP3 player (loads of skins available (even iPod)
- NODATA
- S2U2 (locking software similar to iphone but more customisable)
- Advanced Configuration Tool (various tweaks)
- CleanRAM (free unused memory)
- ClearTemp (keep your phone clean)
- Finger Menu (makes the menus & message boxes touch friendly)
- TCPMP (play virtually any video/sound file)
- ThumbCal (touch friendly calender)

Most of these are freeware. As I said go on the forums & see what people have done. & no you don't need to flash your phone to make it more fast responsive. My phone is on O2 & My phone is very fast, never crashes.

You just need to tinker around with it to make it best for you. If you don't want to do that don't get a phone with Windows Mobile!

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Reviewer: Big Zed - Leeds, UK
Date: 11th Jul 2009

Greatest Samsung phone I have ever had. The only problem I have got is when I hold the phone as you would during a call the reception disappears.

Even holding the phone like this whilst surfing the net, sending a text or going through the menus same thing happens. You can actually see the signal bars fluctuating whilst you rotate the phone.

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Reviewer: Lauren - South West, UK
Date: 1st Jun 2009

Good phone all round really.

I was really disappointed when I turned my phone off the save some battery during the night, & it then forgot all of my predictive text, & even though the language is set at English I am sure the words it comes up with are what I think is Norwiegen or Swedish. Most annoying thing ever. Does anyone else get this?

Slightly off topic, I decided to purchase this phone, as I was tied up in a contract with Orange, with a rubbish broken phone paying £35 a month, so I went to Phones 4 you & they were able to give me the money to get out of my previous contract, & this phone. (back in March) I walked out of the shop with £160 cash & a £500 worth phone! I would totally recommend doing this if you are tied up in something that no longer works for you/is a rubbish deal.

This phone is great for me, as I have a new'ish iPod, & a decent camera I still get the use out of its features. The camera is especially great for nights out, & the flash is brilliant. But if I need to take the perfect photo I would take it with my camera, & the colours tend to be off when the camera is used in daylight.

Good touch screen, it is more accurate than I thought it would be, although I have had the Internet problem. When the stick clicks on the one thing I am trying not to open.

This is a modern lightweight phone, with good features.

The screen gets rather dirty with finger prints & whatever else, & the programming can be slow at times.

I love the windows mobile on this phone, & the mouse is a lot more impressive than the equivalent on other windows mobiles.

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Reviewer: James E - UK
Date: 21st May 2009

Got the Samsung Omnia its very good but like some people say it is sometimes very hard to control, e.g. If you are browsing on the Internet & you want to enlarge the page because you can't see the screen very well, it click's on links when you don't want it too!

When you are outside you cannot see the screen on the Omnia, even if you go on to the setting & set up the automatic light change so when it is night the screen will light up & when it is light the screen will get darker, But this is no difference for the Omnia because the screen is a type of glass that the light will reflect on.

Overall the Omnia is a good phone some features of it are not very good but some are, like everybody says nothing is ever perfect!

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Reviewer: Greg - UK
Date: 15th Apr 2009

The Omnia is not user friendly at all. Give it to a friend & they will have no idea how to use it. Just opening the main menu takes a few seconds, while my old £20 Samsung opens everything instantly. The Windows based operating system is not good at all, while the iPhone's operating system & screen are so responsive, easy to navigate & easy to use (unlike the tiny buttons on the Omnia).

The plastic screen becomes scratched so easily (mine was scratched within days even though it was taken good care of) & you can't see the screen when outside. I thought the fact that you can download other software to it was a good idea, but in practice it's a pain & there's no decent software, while Apple's apps are useful & work well. Texting isn't too bad & predictive text is great as you can see the choice of words on screen, but the send button is right under the delete key so I am always pressing it!

Note. I have used the iPhone just as something to compare with here, I am not an iPhone obsessed guy & don't even own one, I have the Omnia. Hope this was helpful.

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Reviewer: Cwg - Jamaica
Date: 13th Apr 2009

Very good phone with many features needs a learning curve. Good Modem & only negative is the screen could be larger.

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Reviewer: Trevor Parr - UK
Date: 11th Apr 2009

I was really looking forward to getting this phone as it seemed to have everything but was pretty disappointed when I started using it. I have a Mac & the Bluetooth is not very good with it at all, I have a Parrot car kit for the phone & the iPod, again it doesn't work well with this either. I telephoned all the relevant Tec help lines, Samsung, Apple & the Carphone Warehouse, who sent me another phone but it was still the same. I also found using the phone very slow & you really have to press the screen hard to make certain functions work, very fiddly! I have sent it back & am going to get an HTC Touch HD which I know works, I have a friend who has one, with the things I need. I thought of an iPhone but I am afraid it doesn't match up to the HTC.

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Reviewer: Chaddy - Preston, UK
Date: 25th Mar 2009

Absolute top phone, first smart phone I have ever had & I won't be going back! Already eyeing up the Omnia HD.

Takes about a week to get into the phone so expect to fall out with the missus for messing around with it! Once you get the hang of it though you will be amazed with everything on the phone. The Internet is super fast for a mobile connection & the touch screen is responsive.

Fist thing to do when you get the phone is ditch the stylus, who wants to carry that round? the only issue I have found is that some of the touch buttons on the screen are very small & it's a bit annoying when you can't finger scroll & have to use the optical mouse.

Overall great phone highly recommended.

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Reviewer: Lupe - Aruba
Date: 28th Feb 2009

Great phone but it keeps saying my memory is low.

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Reviewer: Kilgore Trout - Birmingham, UK
Date: 17th Feb 2009

I have run through the whole gamut of feelings about this phone since I got it. In terms of its overall feature it's excellent, no doubt.

I now have it running with SPB shell, Pocket Player, Google Maps, Live Search, Youtube play & several other applications, & it does everything I ever wanted it to & more. After a few months of owning one I am still awed by what it can do. It has become my default MP3 player, filo fax, portable storage device & everyday camera. Plus, of course, a mobile web browser, calculator, alarm clock, stopwatch, etc. A phone is in there somewhere too.

Now I am really pleased with it. It's reliable, powerful & set up just how I want it. Now, to get to this stage was a pain in the backside. I've been through crashing programs, the dreaded sleep of death, media player bugs, accidentally answered calls. Blah, it tested my nerves at times & nearly went back to supplier more than once.

I am a patient man, though, & I quite enjoy tinkering with gadgets so this phone ended up being perfect for me. I can well understand people looking for a user friendly out of the box experience becoming very frustrated.

On the design front, however, one thing I cannot forgive, that damned stylus!

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Reviewer: Darcy - UK
Date: 31st Jan 2009

I have had this phone for a few months now, I find it easy to use, once I had overcome the initial getting used to period. The screen is good size & I like the fact the screen automatically adjusts to the brightness of light outside. There are a whole lot of features, some which I don't use that often but nice knowing you have them, & good that it is a Divx cert phone so works immediately with it which is good because I watch videos on mine. It's much better than the iPhone. The screen is responsive & I have never have to use the stylus, although I use the optical mouse it has sometimes. I find the OS good, & it has potential to add applications straight from the Internet or computer straight onto the phone because it is windows. I have had the error message with the camera saying insufficient memory, which went away 75% of the time when I just closed all the programmes running in the task manager, but sometimes I had to reset. Recently though I have not had this message pop up. Opera browser is very nice. Camera is very nice & the zoom is good, when you look at the picture after you took it, very clear. One thing that annoys me a great deal is that I have not been able to organise alphabetically my music files on both windows music player & the touch player, & I have around 350 MP3s, so you can imagine it takes a while to find the song I am after! Also there are not a great deal of shortcuts like which you would find on a non touch screen phone, such as the contacts, but as it only takes a few seconds longer & as I am patient it doesn't bother me.

Overall very good techie phone, recommend it.

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Reviewer: Sharoz - UK
Date: 31st Jan 2009

Great phone waiting to get it, got great specification, design is great & you will never get bored of it unless you have a 24 month contract or longer.

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Reviewer: Dave Thomas - UK
Date: 14th Jan 2009

Got this with a free Wii, what a deal, great gaming at home & a brilliant phone, which cannot be faulted. Waited until after Xmas to get my Omnia, couldn't decide between the LG Renior or the Omnia but feel I made the right choice, plus I got a great deal from here, I mean the kids thought it was Xmas all over again when the Nintendo Wii arrived.

Well worth getting & 100% happy all round. Thanks Dave.

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Reviewer: Hywel Lewis - Swansea, UK
Date: 13th Jan 2009

OK, first things first yes it has got amazing features, that I cannot argue nor the design as I think it's a very good looking phone. But the usability is painfully poor, I have had it 3 months of an 18 month contract & I am giving in.

- Touch screen is very unresponsive to the point it doesn't even work. Writing a text is pointless, send a carrier pigeon as its mountains quicker.

- Start & end call buttons need to be hammered before they register.

- Auto answer, is this a fault or a ridiculous idea? If you have a programme open I think the phone assumes it's doing you a favour by assuming you're at the phone & want to answer it. The number of times it answers in pocket or whilst I am away from it is frightening.

- Stylus hanging off the side? No thanks, gets in the way & bangs around when not in use.

- Getting songs on the phone is a job & a half, with my old Sony it took me about 5 minutes from wanting to transfer a song to listening to it. Maybe at the old age of 21 I am becoming technically slow.

- Call quality, I have not had problems with my network provider before so I presume its my phone that means I rarely have reception or clear calls.

I could go on but I am now ranting, lastly I wondered why my network provider offered me this phone for free on a £25 contract as I assumed it'd cost as it was a newly released phone, now I know why, it is a cheap phone, despite its impressive looks & its got office mobile you know, it is simply a cheap phone.

Look out phone shops here I come.

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Reviewer: Ahmad - Jordan
Date: 8th Jan 2009

Omnia is the best for me. No problems. Fine camera. Nice design. Everything I wish really. I think the problem that you have. That because the Arabic support is not the original one. So you have this problem of slow working.

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Reviewer: As - UK
Date: 18th Dec 2008

This is my first Samsung phone having been with Sony Ericsson for the last few years.

Had this phone around a week now & it's fantastic. It's quite feature packed so there's a lot you can do with it. Find out tweaks & tips to get best performance.

I would recommend over the Diamond as the Diamond battery life is rubbish. I can easily get 3 days with moderate usage out of this.

Keep it up Samsung.

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Reviewer: Tim Gudgeon - UK
Date: 19th Nov 2008

Just sending mine back after 5 days. Had reoccurring problem with touch screen where the keys would not respond to a single touch, but would have to be tapped on 3 or 4 times before responding & my phone also got very warm which is nice on a cold day but did seem to cause the battery to drain even quicker.

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Reviewer: Karim - Cairo, Egypt
Date: 10th Nov 2008

I bought this phone then when it was released from Dubai. It is terrible the touch screen is very slow & unresponsive & sometimes when I want to open it the screen just goes black.

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Reviewer: J2 - UK
Date: 10th Nov 2008

Takes a bit to get used to but if you persevere with it you'll soon get used to it & realise the Omnia's full potential.

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Reviewer: Terri - Windsor, UK
Date: 8th Nov 2008

Guys, I am note sure if you have just had a bad batch, but I have not had any problems with the touch screen at all. For me it is the best phone I have had to date.

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Reviewer: Jenny - London, UK
Date: 8th Nov 2008

This is a wicked phone, top marks all round.

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Reviewer: Sam - UK
Date: 8th Nov 2008

I love my Omnia, it's the best Samsung phone I have ever had.

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Reviewer: Stephen - Keeley, UK
Date: 8th Nov 2008

Great phone! I thought long & hard before moving from a Blackberry Curve & purchasing the Ominia as quite a few reviews were negative. I nearly sent the phone back on the first day as I initially found it frustrating to operate, unlike the Blackberry. However, I decided to persevere & I am glad I did because once you master the myriad of features on this phone it really comes into its own.

Size - the phone is just the right size & doesn't feel like you are lugging around a block in your pocket - it's slim & comfortable in the hand.

Touch Screen - display is clear & responsive.

Camera - excellent with good picture quality & bags of options.

Widgets - great feature keeping all my main functions on the front screen with the flexibility to change the home screen at any time.

Touch Player/ Radio - excellent quality sound & ease of use for downloads.

E-mail / SMS, MMS - I found the touch screen keyboard a little difficult to use at first especially compared to the Blackberry. After a little practice I am now typing far more quickly & the reassuring vibration from the touch screen really helps - I usually use the stylus but don't find using my fingers onerous.

Internet - browsing is easy & quick through IE & Opera.

Windows Mobile is easy to use with Samsung keys instead of the fiddly original Windows Mobile.

Phone - dialling is easy & the range of options for Contacts & Phonebook make finding & communicating straight forward. Sound quality - good. No cut off calls.

Once you get over the initial frustration of using such a different kind of phone the benefits are enormous & I don't feel as if there is any I can't manage now. There is so much this phone can do that I really enjoy the experience of using it now.

Be patient!

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Reviewer: David - Malvern, UK
Date: 26th Oct 2008

BEAUTIFUL, this has to be the most amazing phone I have ever had. Purely amazing.

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Reviewer: Craig - Northern Ireland, UK
Date: 20th Oct 2008

I have had the i900 for about two months now. I can't say I'm impressed. My latest problem is pairing it up with Bluetooth. It will not accept anything from my computer though it will send to the computer & I've just got a Samsung Bluetooth headset but the phone can't find it.

As for the touch screen, it freezes quite often, especially while you're driving the motion keeps turning the screen & it forgets what way was up. While scrolling it selects items you didn't want to select & then when you do want to select an item it scrolls right to the bottom or top of your list. You nearly always have to use the stylus & even then good luck getting the right letters. This phone was not designed for texting.

The sound quality of the phone is rather good although could do with more volume. The camera does sometimes say memory low, usually just at the moment you want to capture something but other than this the camera is great.

When charging the phone with the screen turned off I have found nothing works to get the phone back on & you have to press the reset button, something a phone really shouldn't need. When you leave the Internet you have to manually disconnect the connection or you will end up with a large bill. I am looking forward to more problems on a 18 month contract.

I've only had one Samsung previous to this & I hated it, I thought maybe they had fixed their problems.

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Reviewer: James H - UK
Date: 20th Oct 2008

I ordered this phone in place of my Sony Ericsson K850i & when I got it it looked nice, until you put the touch pen on & looks like a mascara pen once I downloaded my contacts & 4 songs it gave me a memory warning the phone was slow before this anyway aswell as even slower after.

I locked the phone & it still called people while in my pocket the touch screen is fiddly. Yeah OK has many features but just to use is a more an effort of using a virus riddled computer.
So now I am back with my K850i & awaiting the C905 which should do nicely as Sony Phones have never let me down.

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Reviewer: Simone - Barnet, UK
Date: 10th Oct 2008

This is the most frustrating phone ever that I have used. I have now sent it back & gone back to using my old Sony Ericsson. I bought the phone so that I would amalgamate my ipaq, my ipod, my phone, & my blackberry all into one.

It is awful. The screen is too sensitive when scrolling, it keeps opening up the contact I have not clicked on.

It is annoying to use as a phone, very user unfriendly. There was hardly any memory on it left once I downloaded my contacts to the phone.

A real disappointment, as I had waited so long for it. I had done my research & everyone raved about the phone

What a disappointment.

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Reviewer: Aliya - UK
Date: 9th Oct 2008

I have just bought the Omnia, I was really looking forward to getting it.

It has far too many features to go through. Which are all excellent.

However downside is that the Touch Screen is not as responsive & quick as it should be. The iPhone is literally instant while this takes a few seconds at least! Also can get annoying when using fingers as it does not touch on the correct part you actually intend to & Scrolling is definitely a bit of a mission! If you're using the Stylus then of course this isn't a problem.

Otherwise I would say I am very happy with the phone & would only say it just takes a bit of getting used to! :D.

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Reviewer: Chad - UK
Date: 7th Oct 2008

I have seen & played with this phone & it is the BEST of the BEST, I have tested it out & really enjoyed everything about it, it is going to be mine in a very short while. I was surprised at the best deals adverts here, free handset & with 9 months half price line rental, me & my friend Chris are ordering one each today.

I would recommend it as a fashionable touch screen phone to suit young & older users but not for flash business users, this is more your fashion phone. Go get now.

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Reviewer: Tony - Somerset, UK
Date: 3rd Oct 2008

I cannot understand Pippa's of Exeter review did you really have this phone or are you just a iPhone lover who likes to trash every other phone, why the hell were you trying to scroll on the screen what do you think the mouse pad is for & as far as downloading your music etc the system is the same as iPhone in fact Samsung make the software for both, I have an iPhone which I also like, but I need this phone for business as it has windows on, Why trash a phone just because you cannot set it up or work it properly, I had a friend who also was going to send his back as he couldn't get the Wi-Fi to work with his hub, just because its setup was different to his old phone, Why don't people read the instructions, just because its setup is different does not make it a rubbish phone.

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Reviewer: Hammad - Slough, UK
Date: 28th Sep 2008

HI there, I got the phone & started taking pictures & memory shows low, was so frustrated. Because I thought it is 8 GB. So I called Samsung helpline, & then I was happy. They told me how to put your pictures & heavy things into your main storage, & then phone works perfectly. I am happy to buy omnia, It is cool.

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Reviewer: Phone Freak - UK
Date: 24th Sep 2008

I have had this phone for just over a week now & have tried desperately to convince myself I like it! It appealed to me because of all the features & the fact that it wasn't the iPhone. Unfortunately though for me I'll be looking elsewhere.

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Reviewer: Max - UK
Date: 6th Sep 2008

NOT HAPPY with Omnia.

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Reviewer: Paul - UK
Date: 5th Sep 2008

Very poor operating system that crashes regularly. Simple operations like forwarding text messages to someone else take forever. VERY VERY poor handset I am returning mine as soon as possible, avoid at all costs.

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Reviewer: Samuel - Argentina
Date: 5th Sep 2008

Great phone.

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Reviewer: Mark - UK
Date: 2nd Sep 2008

This is the best phone I have ever owned & in the same breath the most frustrating!

It's feature packed & yet not very user friendly. I've had it for 5 days now & I think I'll send it back to where it came from. The problem is you need the smallest fingers to work it effectively from texting to scrolling.

So all in all an excellent package but a compromised experience!

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Reviewer: Natasha - Jakarta, Indonesia
Date: 2nd Sep 2008

It's just came out 2 weeks ago in my country. Have tried it several time each time I went to Samsung center.LOL. I love it! Though it's bigger than F490, but it suit my big thumb.Yes, I know it has a stylus, but sometimes I am just too lazy to use it. Love all the features. A bit tricky but I believe with a little trainning won't harm you. Pity, it's so expensive.

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Reviewer: Jk - UK
Date: 1st Sep 2008

To Peter, I believe it doesn't have flick scrolling, however if you purchase the spb mobile shell software then it does have it, it's about $25 I believe. Hope this helps.

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Reviewer: Pippa - Exeter, UK
Date: 1st Sep 2008

I was so excited about the Omnia & kept checking to see when it was going to be released on Vodafone in the UK. I got the phone last week as an upgrade & played for about 30 minutes before swopping back to my jail broken iphone. I tried again at the weekend after reading peoples reviews thinking I must be missing something.

I think the touch screen is terrible there is a real delay when using it on a lot of screens it then open s lots of unwanted applications or contact cards as you try to scroll passed. Some of the buttons & bars are so small you have to use the stylus which is hung from the outside of the phone at least it has somewhere to keep it but it's not pretty bashing around. The user experience of the touch screen is so much better on the iphone I am really disappointed.

I played all weekend to work out how to get music onto it & am not happy with the upload download features they are just so much easier with the iphone maybe I have been spoilt by it but I was so hoping the Omnia (everything) would be everything & a step forward from the iphone. The sim is back in the iphone & I think I will wait & try the N96 when it is released as that looks like it could be a challenge & with keys again!

It looks like the Omnia is going back I am actually sad as I was really hoping it was going to be everything it said it would be & I just feel a little let down by it.

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Reviewer: Victoria - Birmingham, UK
Date: 29th Aug 2008

I had a good half a day play with it & despite the imperfections I still think I'll get it. It is on the slow side to begin with, but the guy in Orange shop swears that all WinMo phones are slow.

The touch screen was responsive but not overly so, I didn't have problems with it opening every single thing I touched. & scrolling was alright.

I love the handwriting feature & the widgets, however I didn't expect the phone to be on the big side (as big as the iPhone), the screens resolution made it a bit dark & blurry. & the camera produced only blurry pictures of a very poor quality, I tried to fiddle with the settings but it didn't help.

Considering the fact that camera is one of the main things that separate Omnia from iPhone, I was disappointed.

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Reviewer: Ian - UK
Date: 21st Aug 2008

A truly Fantastic phone to own. With its GPS Tracking System to prevent theft, it easily tops the iPhone. Literally EVERYTHING this phone has is fantastic. Just 2 main problems, the resolution is low compared to the Diamond, & the touch screen (thumb, not stylus) is a bit tricky to use. But after practice, it'll be fine. The only problem with the design is the stylus. It is a physical extra that attaches to the side of the phone. Doesn't look too good & it's a bit heavy too. Another good feature of the Omnia, is that it has a VRS (Voice Recognition System) that you have to train for it to get used to your voice! Overall, Fantastic!

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Reviewer: Peter - UK
Date: 20th Aug 2008

Well just got the Omnia & everything works as expected apart from the scrolling with your finger.

I have had exactly the same problem as Petra

In contacts trying to use the flick screen to scroll through contacts, it is so sensitive that it is opening nearly every contact I slightly touch to flick the screen.

Unless this is sorted out unfortunately the phone will have to go back.

Has anyone any ideas, I have phoned Samsung & they are getting back to me tomorrow.

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Reviewer: Michael - Aberdeen, UK
Date: 19th Aug 2008

My friend has ordered this phone & gets it tomorrow.

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Reviewer: S T Sharma - Dundee, UK
Date: 18th Aug 2008

Very well set out, nice easy to use design & a must have mobile, if you want one to suit every need.

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Reviewer: S T Sharma - Dundee, UK
Date: 16th Aug 2008

Very well set out, nice easy to use design & a must have mobile, if you want one to suit every need.

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Reviewer: Olivia - Chesterfield, UK
Date: 12th Aug 2008

I would really appreciate it if someone could get back to me on the actual release date of this phone. Preferably on O2 or Orange, thanks.

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Reviewer: Tim Owel - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Date: 11th Aug 2008

I must say I am somewhat disappointed in this phone.

On paper it is a knockout. It also looks & feels great, a technical marvel. I also like the TouchWiz UI. But here is where the problems begin. The TouchWiz only covers a small fraction of what the phone does, for the rest you need to use the Windows Mobile under the TouchWiz, which is not finger friendly at all (& about as visually exiting a box of rocks). Even when using the stylist it is a bit unresponsive, & the optical mouse is a useless. As for the camera, large display & multimedia play back, they are rather good. But, to be honest, they don't do enough to balance out the rubbish UI experience.

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Reviewer: Zack - Wales, Germany
Date: 2nd Aug 2008

Great phone with gps, 5MP camera & an amazing 3.2 inch widescreen touch screen with also windows for high speed Internet & a great looking design perfect phone to buy!

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Reviewer: Petra Skachova - Milan, Italy
Date: 28th Jul 2008

So, here I am back. It took some days before my first post appeared in this website, that's why I was not sure that it would be ever posted & did not add anything yet. But here I am again, & I'll start with the most important thing, the Omnia went back to the shop the day after.

The reasons are two, it was not what I expected, even if I studied well all the reviews & opinions before in Internet, so I could imagine more or less how it will be like. But anyway the reviews are not able to focus on issues that are possible to discover only while using the phone personally. The second reason is that the Windows Mobile OS did not work very well, some applications stopped to work & the camera did not work at all after having it used only once, only a message about insufficient memory appeared (with 8 GB of free internal memory & only 1 MP3 song inside).

When I bought my phone I immediately started to use it & discover all its features. The thing that surprised me negatively, & that you should know before buying this phone, is that this is a pure Windows Mobile phone, nothing more. What I am talking about is the user interface, which is really poor, simple & with minimum possibilities to customize your handset. Comparing to HTC Touch Diamond for example, Omnia looses easily, as HTC cleverly decided to override some of the Windows Mobile OS with its own graphic to make the software more human, pleasant to see & work with. While i900, as soon as you'll leave the nice & cute widget desktop, it's just & only a pocket PC. I really thought & was sure that I could be able to set more options & change the phone more, but it's not possible even to choose a graphic layout, only to change the colour of the up & bottom lines of the window (silly) & for the rest of your life of the phone's life you have to watch it exactly as it is, so simple, sad. I think that Samsung could spend a bit more time customizing this phone, to render it more user friendly. Also, mind that you won't be able to use some (a big part) of the windows mobile features without a stylus, as the buttons or points that you have to touch are really small & even me, with a thin female fingers, could not touch correctly what I needed.

Another issue is the touch screen by itself. It responses very well, it has even the useful vibz immediately when you touch some point to be sure that you really did, but it just opens applications even if it is not requested. For example when scrolling in the Programs menu, the only option to see all the programs is to scroll with a finger to find a program you need & so with your finger on the very right side, carefully scrolling with the tiny scrolling bar, you just can't avoid that the applications are opened one by one, as you touch their line while scrolling. For me it was not possible to scroll down to find a program that I needed, I just gave up after 10 or 12 tries, with many programs opened uselessly. So I can tell that the Omnia's display is very responsive, but not much correct & some basic functions don't work as they should.

Then, the software is instable. I don't know why. Couldn't they try before this phone well, to discover all these bugs? I am very sorry for this, as I am a long time Samsung user & I expected Omnia to be released for good 6 months! The more I am disappointed & quite sad now. While browsing among the pictures, it was possible to skip to another image just by moving the finger on the side you wanted to go, left or right. It worked only once, than it always remained frozen & a message appeared, that the application encountered a problem & needs to be closed (pretty known from Windows XP). As I wrote above, also the camera had problems & after one try did not work anymore. Searching in the Internet, quite all the users found this same problem with Samsung i900.

Regarding the features, this mobile phone offers you all what you expect from a multi-media device, simple touch player, Windows Media Player (without any visualizations or images, just a large big screen, I wonder why), image slides, multimedia library. Unfortunately) preset tones.

Well, I think it was already exhausting to read till here. I did not write any other details or features, as you can easily find them on this page. I only wanted to share with you my sensation while using this phone, from which I expected a lot (looking at all the commercial), but which at the end was made first of all for show, it has load of features, but the software is not user friendly & very cold & the system is instable, some applications do not work & instead of scrolling you just keep opening applications without wanting this. I expected more, for sure Omnia is not Omnia in latino, everything. Now I have to think which phone to take. Being a Samsung lover, the choice will be hard because I want a phone with Wi-Fi, good camera etc., but there is none at this time. Thanks for reading my long post.

Sorry for some mistakes, I was writing in my office & working at the same time, of course I did not mean Internet Explorer, but the files Explorer. I hope you enjoyed my review anyway.

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Reviewer: Petra Skachova - Milan, Italy
Date: 22nd Jul 2008

Today I am going to take the Omnia that I ordered, & tomorrow I'll be back with a complete review. In the meant time I can say that this mobile phone is really omnia, everything (in latino). It has the camera, you can record movies, browse quickly in the Internet, find easily your way with the navigator, use hundreds of applications, see XVid format videos without having them converted, store as much data as you desire, thanks to its large internal & external memory, & much more. Let's check this out better tomorrow. I am sure that I won't sleep the whole night, just because I'll be stuck on my Omnia exploring all the functions & fun stuff. I am very curious on how the touch screen will work like, I hope it will response quickly & correctly. Surely iPhone does not have anything in common with a top notch phone like this one.

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Reviewer: Gandolf - UK
Date: 17th Jul 2008

This phone is very good, much better than the new iPhone 3G. The camera is top notch (5MP) whereas the iPhones is only 2MP or 3MP. There both have GPS in case you get lost in your bedroom Wardrobe (Narnia). LG Omnia has a nice large screen & is slightly thinner compared to the new iPhone.

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Reviewer: Joe - Nottingham, UK
Date: 10th Jul 2008

Very well set out, nice easy to use design & a must have mobile, if you want one to suit every need.



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