Samsung Omnia Review


8th April 2009 Author: Hillary Borrud - Unknown - Views:

 


Screen

The Omnia's 3.2-inch full touch screen is brilliant and colorful, and showcases the TouchWiz user interface. At 240 x 400 px, the resolution looks good, although it is actually lower than the G1 and iPhone 3G screens which both surpass the Omnia with 320 x 480 px.

The Omnia supports supports 65K-colors, on par with the T-Mobile G1, but short of the iPhone 3G which supports 262K-colors.
 

With only a couple of buttons on the face, Samsung expects users to navigate almost exclusively with the touch screen -- as they would with the iPhone. However, the Omnia's touch screen often disappointed with its slow response to selections. Wrong text or commands were frequently selected as a result.

For example, it sometimes took several tries with a finger touch or the stylus, to use the "X" to close out of applications. The animation during the screen orientation change from portrait to landscape and vice versa -- while visually impressive-seemed to waste time.

In addition to standard touch screen features, Samsung has thrown in some innovative new technology to help the Omnia stand out among competitors. The haptic feedback, a slight vibration to confirm the user's selection, is a nice feature.

An accelerometer allows users to change the screen orientation from portrait to landscape and vice versa. It seems to be increasingly a standard feature on touch screen handsets. But Omnia also uses the accelerometer in a unique way to help users who want a quick option to silence an incoming call or other sounds, by allowing users to select an "etiquette" function that mutes the phone when it is turned face down.


 


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