Samsung SGH-i900 hands on review

#1 Echelon

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Posted 11 June 2008 - 02:38 PM

Watch this space as PPCSG reviews the Samsung SGH-i900 Omnia. Interestingly the word "Omnia" is taken from the New Testament in the Bible, in Latin it means, “all things pure.” I am interested to know what is Samsung's take on this.

I have the opportunity to test drive the Samsung i900 for the next few days. First impression of the device, feels good in my hands as it is not too wide. The gorgeous 400x240 TFT screen is amazingly clear and sharp, the response of the device is equally good and it comes with a premium feel. More to come on the device.

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#2 multan

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Posted 11 June 2008 - 02:44 PM

Wow, hope to see you putting up video clips and more screenshots of the phone, and giving this i900 a good review!

Just a quick one, does i900 have the function like the Touch Flo3D or Apple interface?

#3 dark_wing

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Posted 11 June 2008 - 02:59 PM

Can you please feedback the sensitivity of the optical direction pad as oppose to the normal direction pad? Is it any good for light gaming?

#4 aatjitra

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Posted 11 June 2008 - 03:24 PM

definitely, it will be my next gadget...

but however, I would like to know how good the screens respons and text input method since this beauty does not come with keyboard...

hopefully it would be much better compare to HTC craps...

#5 Echelon

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Posted 11 June 2008 - 04:05 PM

So what is under the hood of this premium looking Windows Mobile Professional device, this Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional device features a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, it has a built-in accelerometer called 'Motion Sensor' (it helps to determine when to tilt the screen from either portrait to landscape mode or vice versa), it also comes with a light sensor to measure the intensity of the backlight for your device in different lighting environment.

It has WiFi & a GPS module, proprietary USB Port for charging, Active Sync and Ear phones. It has Bluetooth 2.0, and a unique 3.2-inch 400 x 240 resolution display and a 5-mega(did I just hear you go Wow!) pixel camera (with smile detection and geo-tagging plus a LED flash!). There are two storage capacity to select from, a whopping 16GB version and a not to small 8GB Flash memory and that is not all, besides the mega built in flash storage Samsung decided to please all the power users by adding a storage card slot for MicroSD cards, sweet!

Also Samsung has outdone themselves to include a built in FM tuner for those who prefers listening to the radio than on their built in media player.