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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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