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The Design

In truthful Samsung style, the Omnia owns an absolute solid feel to that. It has a silver bezel round the widescreen format presentation which is even on the screen?ideal as finger tapping and scrolling. Beneath the silver screen are 2 push button*, Call and End, with an optic directing pad between them which may likewise make up depressed to choose items. On the far side that, there are merely some additional buttons along the right bound for the photographic camera, volume controller and single shortcut key out.

Merely single I/O port is useable along the left bound, a Samsung proprietorship connecter for charging, synchronising and linking up a wired headset. Although we generally do not alike such as an arranging, the good element is that an adaptor is enclosed with the Omnia which grants you to connect regular 3.5mm audio earphones, a nice feature to take looking at Samsung anticipates these device to comprise in use for a media player.

Almost from the backward from the i900 is it has battery cover. Although produced from plastic, it gets a groomed metallic element feel to that which is instead enchanting. As well got around the backward is the lense for these PDA-phone?s 5-megapixel photographic camera along with it has LED light as photo-taking in darkened sites. There has as well a lower-resolution photographic camera at the forepart as video calls.

Moving out the backward cover will expose a little battery, a SIM card slot and a microSD card slot. The irritating matter is that you require to take away the battery to switch the microSD card, a modest inconvenience as those using a lot of memory than the built-in 16GB memory.

Single matter that?s conspicuously missing is a stylus slot. Whether it?s a space restraint or a consider exclusion, these will not come down fine on several users. A stylus is enclosed tho?, and these gets a clip on the end which matches into an elective leather pouch merely not anyplace on the device itself. As almost users, this Is not a applicable solution, then a third-party stylus pen could suit part of the Omnia user?s armory.

The Features

Samsung Omnia SGH-i900 is deficiencies in styles, the Omnia can not fitting on the default Windows Mobile 6.1 interface as it Is not optimised for consumption with finger pats unless your fingertips taper is as thin as toothpick. By default option, it characteristics a gadget interface is quite similar to Nokia?s Internet Tablet devices. You could drag and drop mini application programs of off a bar on the left onto the screen, permitting you to customise what you would like to see. Although beautiful, this Is not in particular valuable as every widget draws quite a bit of memory space and the different items do not precisely match together like a jigsaw, which wastes even a lot of memory space.

But we felt to be better in displaying important info. These includes a huge clock, a submenu to basic settings and 3 ikons indicating your call log, messages and email status. Tapping upon the main menu will hand you a twelve ikon page on roughly common used application programs. By there, you could pat on other Shortcuts page which is customizable by the user.

There has a Programs page which sort the whole installed application programs in a scrollable list. Lifting your finger upward and downward this list will move it, such alike the way using the iPhone. The Omnia?s finger scrolling works only in absolute limited application programs. It will not work in the default programs list and settings pages. For instance, these possibly confusing for the user and for certain does not bring better User Interface design due to lack of consistency.

Among the most advanced matters about the Omnia is the implementation of haptic feedback. This mean that each tap of the screen is came with a little vibration which like saying to you the phone has read your input. The excellent is especially while typing out messages using the onscreen keyboards as you?re not got out wondering if the software has ?sensed? your touch.

The Samsung Omnia SGH-i900 is build in with motion sensor which is used for shifting the screen between landscape and portrait modes (something like Sony Ericsson W910i). A slight vibration is sensed once the mode switches and the screen reduces down and re-expands into the new orientation, granting a visual feedback like notification that something is happening. The sensibility of this sensing element could be set in the settings page. We felt the lowest setting to be the only useful one as anything greater induced the device too sensitive to motion and movement, causing alterations in screen orientation while we did not need them. Some other annoying thing was that the motion sensor continued active although the phone was keylocked. So if you do not turn the phone off using the power button, the screen orientation keep switching again on a vibration when you?re placing it in your pouch.

FULL SPECS:

Physical Attributes

Dimensions
(width x height x depth): ??? 56.9 x 112 x 12.5 millimetres
2.2 x 4.4 x 0.5 inches
Bounding Volume: ??? 79.7 cubecentimetres

Software Environment

Embedded Operating System: ??? Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
Operating System Kernel: ??? Windows CE 5.2

Microprocessor, Chipset

CPU: ??? Marvell PXA320
Width of Machine Word: ??? 32 bit
CPU Core: ??? Intel XScale
Level 2 cache: ??? 256 KiB
Instruction Set: ??? ARM

Memory, Storage capacity

ROM type: ??? Flash EEPROM
ROM capacity: ??? 16000 MiB
RAM type: ??? DDR SDRAM
RAM capacity: ??? 128 MiB

Graphical subsystem

Display Type: ??? color transflective TFT display
Display Color Depth: ??? 18 bit/pixel (262144 scales)
Display Diagonal: ??? 3.2 ” (81 millimetres)
Display Resolution: ??? 400 x 240 (96000 pixels)
Viewable Display Area: ??? 2.7″ x 1.6″ (69.46 x 41.67 millimetres)
Dot Pitch: ??? 0.1736 millimetre/pixel
Video out: ??? Supported
Proprietary connector

Audio Subsystem

Audio Channel(s): ??? stereo sound
Analog/Digital Converter
(Recording): ??? 16 bit nominal quantization
44100 Hz sampling frequency
Digital/Analog Converter
(Playing): ??? 16 bit resolution
44100 Hz holding frequency
Microphone(s): ??? mono sound
Loadspeaker(s): ??? mono sound
Audio Output: ??? Proprietary plug

Cellular Phone

Cellular Networks: ??? GSM850, GSM900, GSM1800, GSM1900, UMTS2100
Cellular Data Links: ??? CSD, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA
Cellular Antenna: ??? Internal antenna
Call Alert: ??? 64 -chord melody (polyphonic)
Vibrating Alert: ??? Supported
Speakerphone : ??? Supported

Control Peripherals

Positioning Device: ??? Touchscreen & TouchPad
Primary Keyboard: ??? Not supported
Directional Pad: ??? Not supported
Scroll Wheel: ??? Not supported

Interfaces

Expansion Interfaces: ??? microSD, microSDHC, TransFlash, SDIO
Supports High Capacity (SD 2.0/HC) memory cards with capacity of up to 32GB
USB: ??? USB 2.0 client, Full-Speed (12Mbit/s)
Proprietary connector
Bluetooth (802.15): ??? Bluetooth 2.0, Internal antenna
Wireless LAN/Wi-Fi (802.11): ??? IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, 54 Mbit/s
Internal antenna
Infrared Gate: ??? Not supported

Multimedia Telecommunication

Analog Radio: ??? FM radio (87.5-108MHz) with RDS radio reciever
Proprietary headset as antenna
Digital Media Broadcast: ??? Not supported

Satellite Navigation

Built-in GPS module: ??? Supported
GPS Protocol: ??? NMEA 0183
GPS Antenna: ??? Internal antenna
Complementary GPS Services: ??? Assisted GPS

Built-in Digital Camera

Sensor Type: ??? CMOS sensor
Resolution: ??? 2560 x1920 pixels (4.92MP)
Autofocus (AF): ??? Supported
Optical Zoom: ??? 1 x
Macro Mode: ??? Not supported
Built-in Flash: ??? real flash
Camcorder: ??? 320×240 pixels
Recordable Image Formats: ??? JPG
Recordable Video Formats: ??? 3GPP, MPEG4

Built-in Secondary Digital Camera

Sensor Type: ??? CMOS sensor
Resolution: ??? 640 x680 pixels (0.44MP)
Camcorder: ??? 320×240pixel
Recordable Image Formats: ??? JPG
Recordable Video Formats: ??? 3GPP, MPEG4

Power Supply

Battery Technology: ??? Lithium-ion battery
Battery Build: ??? removable
Estimated Battery Life: ??? 11 hours
Battery Capacity: ??? 1440 mAh
Estimated Avarege Current: ??? 131 mA
Additional Details
Built-in accelerometer: ??? Supported

Additional Features:

* GPRS Class 10
* Samsung TouchWiz UI
* Bluetooth stereo audio profile (A2DP)
* voice command