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This samsung is crazy :)

I didn't watch the whole video- as I'm not really interested at the moment...
But if it has the same technology as the other touch screen devices Samsung has been putting out (IE, Samsung Glyde for verizon) then this phone BLOWS. No matter how cool its features are.

The screen on the Glyde is awful!
I don't see how this one will be any different.
 
milani said:
Why on earth would you want widgets on a phone? Why would you want an ugly, messy, unorganized mess of a desktop... on your phone? Fail. Otherwise it's a nice looking phone - a bit big though...
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Erm... isn't the iPhone's desktop essentially a collection of widgets?!
 
daneoni said:
Its a good phone hardware wise but like HTC devices and others out their its crippled by Winblows Mobile 6.1

Symbian is a little better but its also old and clunky. No matter how much you polish a turd...it's still...and always will be a turd. Cellphone manufacturers should either start writing their own smartphone OS from the ground up or embrace Linux.

The two best smartphone OSes out their today are BlackBerry's Java and of course iPhone's mobile OS X IMHO

PS: Of all the talk about editing office document capabilities being missing from the iPhone, its a feature which most people dont/wont use. In the real world most people just view attachments and email/voice subsequent comments. Very few actually edit stuff on their devices.
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i dunno about that. i'm pretty sure almost every student and business person would love to be able to at least edit .doc/.xls files. i wouldn't use it much but it would be a great feature to have even for someone like me who rarely gets those types of attachments.


as for the phone. i thought i read it was the size of the iphone so not sure why that video makes the phone looks so damn big. the camera/gps are very nice.
 
Cant samsung be a little bit more original on this one? They even have to mimic apple on their video tutorial, gosh.

Anyway, my friend has one of these, and it is indeed quite responsive and similar sized to the iphone. But at the end of the day its still running WM, which is the big no no for me. Even the thought of having the windows experience with me on-the-go gives me the headache.
 
Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, and all that.:D
Samsung churn out yet another touchscreen phone, lol.
It's smaller than the Samsung promo shows it to be, and for me anyway, if there was no iPhone, then I'd be drooling over this. BUT(and it's a big but), The iPhone(despite it's current, well-documented limitations), is still way on top.
Phonedog.com has a cool, 3-part vid, comparing the Omnia, iPhone 3G and HTC Touch Diamond.
Check 'em out.
 
I was going to buy one of these because the spec puts the iPhone to shame.......

.......then I saw a demo of the phone on YouTube. If was an official demo, where the user was showing off various functions. It went something like this.

"Then if you want to move something back over to the dock, you just press the icon and move it over here <user drags the icon..... it doesn't attack to the dock>............. errr, I mean like this.............. just like this........."

I think he got it on the 4th go. There were other examples of the same. Basically the OS looked clunky and put me off buying it. I've also heard that text entry using the screen's keyborad isn't easy and some people have said it's best to use a stylus.

Even thought the iPhone is a lower spec, I'm getting one because I can't seem to find a better OS. I'm just waiting until the build quality gets better and all those light leak and uneven besel clearance issues have gone away.
 
Personally I like the look of it and may consider it when its time to upgrade. My network doesn't supply the iPhone and I've had Samsung phones for the past five years, so there's a high chance I will get this or the Tocco, depending on how I decide to use my phone.
 
Is the background music from that tutorial available on the iTunes store?
 
MSFT does not get it. Mobile devices, especially touch screen ones require a paradigm shift in UI design.

Windows style menus - Wrong
Start Menu - Wrong
Small mailbox icons - Wrong
Windows style scroll bars - Wrong

The biggest problem with these controls is that they are too small to target with a finger. The scroll bars also obstruct the view of the data by remaining visible all the time.

Look at the iPhone UI by comparison. It sort of reminds me of the 24th century LCARS interface while the windows mobile UI looks like a rush job where they just shoved the desktop controls onto the smaller device. Windows mobile = 80's technology. iPhone/iPod Touch UI = 21st century technology.
 
aristotle said:
MSFT does not get it. Mobile devices, especially touch screen ones require a paradigm shift in UI design.

Windows style menus - Wrong
Start Menu - Wrong
Small mailbox icons - Wrong
Windows style scroll bars - Wrong

The biggest problem with these controls is that they are too small to target with a finger. The scroll bars also obstruct the view of the data by remaining visible all the time.

Look at the iPhone UI by comparison. It sort of reminds me of the 24th century LCARS interface while the windows mobile UI looks like a rush job where they just shoved the desktop controls onto the smaller device. Windows mobile = 80's technology. iPhone/iPod Touch UI = 21st century technology.
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21st century technology that cant cut and paste, cant multi-task, cant edit documents...the list goes on and on.....
 
Omnia:
Weight: 125g
Dimensions: 112 x 56.9 x 12.5 mm

iPhone:
Weight: 133 grams
Dimensions: 115.5 x 62.1 x 12.3 mm

Who woulda thunk it? The iPhone is larger. I think the iPhone's sloping sides and overall minimalism just makes it seem smaller and thinner. The Omina really does look like a boring black brick, IMO.
 
I don't post on Macrumors much now because I sold my Macbook and bought an i900 (on Vodafone) rather than an iPhone 3G. It was a tough choice but in the end the i900 just had more going for it from my own perspective.

However, let's be clear: the iPhone has a better music player, a better default keyboard/spellcheck combo, a slightly (and it really is only slightly) better UI and a better display so if you're using it for those functions then it's a better option. The Samsung has a better video player, camera, memory options, choice of input methods and software and feels better in the hand so that's where it scores. The browsers are about the same.

Samsung have done an excellent job of skinning WinMo 6.1 and actually used a powerful enough processor so it doesn't run like a dog. Frankly most casual users aren't going to get into the guts of WinMo which is probably a good thing.

They're both cracking phones and ideally I'd have both of them but the Omnia ticks 90% of the boxes that are important to me as opposed to the 85% that the iPhone ticks.
 
BongoBanger said:
...They're both cracking phones and ideally I'd have both of them but the Omnia ticks 90% of the boxes that are important to me as opposed to the 85% that the iPhone ticks.
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That, at the end of the day, is what's it's all about.
It'll make no sense getting any device, that doesn't currently do what you primarily want it to.
In my opinion, currently, the iPhone is not a smartphone in the conventional sense - It's an ultra consumer phone, that does the majority of consumer things superbly, hence the general masses loving it, and the smartphone hardcore, dismissing it.
 
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