Samsung i8910 Omnia HD – Slim Phone With Capacitive Touch Featuring Symbian Interface
Touch screen phones are the latest trend in cell phone market. Successful models are those which couple attractive looks, easy handling and fast processing. The pick of the day when it comes to touch enabled phones is Samsung i8910 Omnia HD. This shiny black bodied phone comes with a large touch screen and a narrow size bezel. To add to the beauty, this phone has a attractive chrome bezel running around the screen. The call buttons are well designed along the sides to make the usability easy.
With a highly responsive screen, Samsung i8910 Omnia HD is a tough competitor for any other models in the category. The phone features a fluid touch interface and depends on the scroll bar for scrolling. Touch features in the Nokia N97 had many shortcomings which are all well addressed in this model from Samsung with the help of Symbian platform. The number keypad powered by Symbian will make the dialing and typing easy for any user new to the touch arena. To add value to the phone usability, Samsung i8910 Omnia HD also has an on-screen QWERTY keypad though not so attractive as the number keypad.
Scanning into the hardware parts, one finds a powerful ARM Cortex A8 600 Mhz processor running the show for Samsung i8910 Omnia HD. The virtual environment is made colorful with the graphics chip in the form of Power VR SGX. The other side of the coin, the battery drains up quickly but considering the multimedia features provided by the large screen phone it should never be an issue.
In the reviews the phone pulls itself behind the competitive products when it comes mobile camera and signal reception quality. Though the Samsung mobile features an 8MP camera with 720p recording facility, the quality is not up to the mark. The camera flash could have been improved considering the fellow cell phones from Samsung. Video quality is extremely good especially while viewing on the large screen. The Nokia phones beat this model from Samsung when it comes to signal quality, signal integrity and call quality.
Samsung could have improved better in the loudspeaker quality provided with the model. At a pricing of around 33,000 INR, Samsung i8910 Omnia HD is a good choice to go for touch freaky cell phone lovers.
