Samsung i900 - Labor omnia vincit

Hardware, speed

Omnia has Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional as an operating system. The manufacturer installed lots of software on the phone which make it easy to use with fingers, but I'll talk about this on the next page. The CPU is a Marvell PXA312 at 624 MHz and there is 128 MB RAM and 256 MB ROM, we have about 56 MB for running programs and 40 MB for storing data, which is not too much. The 8/16 GB flash memory (depends on model) improves the situation a bit, and this can be seen as an external drive on our PC, thanks to Mass Storage mode. Write speed is very fast for a Windows Mobile device, it's about 2 MB/s, so copying a 700 MB DivX movie takes about 6 minutes. The memory can be expanded with a microSD card – as I have already mentioned we have to take the battery out in order to install the card. Of course it's quite possible that, thanks to the large internal memory, most people will only use iGO on the card, and that doesn't have to be tampered with a lot.

We got the handset with Hungarian software, the ROM itself being English, the Hungarian translation is on the Extended ROM and the phone will ask us on first boot which language do we want to use. Changing the language doesn't affect the phone's speed, which is confirmed by the Pocket PC Mark results:

As you can see the selected language doesn't have an impact on the results, but the CPU tests still have a rather low mark, but the memory benchmark is quite good – it's a bit sad, however that some beta version ROMs still produce results above 800 marks, I don't know why is the final software slower. The file system score is outstanding, it's about three times better than marks of competitors' handsets'. The graphical subsystem results are also promising, I think there will be no problems with running programs with more complex graphics.

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