Exterior
Samsung did a great job. i8910 HD aka Omnia HD is a quite large device, but it’s also slim. The frying pan design might be strange for a while, but the size has a reason, as we have a 3.7” display. I don’t want to say big words, but this is one of the world’s best displays; it’s a thing that it’s big, but it’s also based on AMOLED technology and the resolution of 360 x 640 pixels isn’t weak either, even though we’ve seen higher ones too.
But the AMOLED technology is something compared to TFT that TFT has been to cSTN. It’s bright, it’s sharp, it can be seen from any angle, it’s astonishing. And even more it’s a capacitive touchscreen, which means that we shouldn’t be tampering with a stylus, it’s controlled with our fingers. My colleague Bocha wrote a short introduction to this spreading technology, you can read it here.
Samsung’s flagship model weighs 148 grams, even though its case is not made of metal. The phone is covered in shiny black plastic, which doesn’t look like a cheap piece, but it’s not an elegant one either. Both the plastic cover and the display are effective at collecting fingerprints, we’ll be wiping the screen lots of times. No one will be astonished by the design, it’s just a big frying pan with some silver decoration around the display (I think this is metal), which surrounds every (all three) button on the front panel. The side ones are for rejecting/answering calls, while the center one is for navigating the menu. There is a great light sensor and an inevitable secondary camera above the display.
The top part of the phone is an arced surface with small holes, which has only one important feature: this is where we can find the standard 3.5 mm headset jack. On the left we can see the volume control keys and the memory card slot, where we can push a microSDHC card of up to 16 GB in size. (As a matter of fact we can push anything inside the slot, but the phone supports this type of card.) On the bottom right there is the camera’s hotkey, while on the upper part there is another cover waiting for us to discover the microUSB port behind it: both the charger and the data cable can be plugged in here.
The designers didn’t want to overcomplicate the back panel, the camera is in focus, it has a LED flash and a resolution of 8 megapixels, so it’s currently one of the best. At least regarding the number of pixels. The whole handset is a really massive, large beast, one can really expect some strong features as well. The screen is even scratch-resistant, which is a must, as it’s no fun destroying such a large AMOLED display (and just think of the costs).
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
