Navigation, battery, summary
The handset has a GPS receiver inside, which uses cell information too for positioning. Without these it gets connected quite slowly (I've tested without a SIM card too), but if we enable it to download current data from the web then it establishes connection very fast. The handset is compatible with iGO8, but only with the latest version, that's made for Omnia. As you can see on the video below iGO 8 fills the whole screen, but you should not that as iGO starts up the gyroscope is turned off and it stays off until we close the program. This means we can rotate the screen only from the software's menu, and if we minimize it then Windows stays in the position it was in before launching the program.
The battery is a 1440 mAh one, it can be changed. With average use it provides an uptime of 2 days, but if we navigate and listen to music too then we will surely have to charge it every day.
Summary: Omnia is another trial for making Windows Mobile a fast, comftable and easy to use operating system, while keeping its flexibility and expandability. Samsung has a different philosophy than HTC and they have went far, very far. It's visible on i900 that it's the result of a well though-out concept and they have tampered with Microsoft's operating system where they could and the changes are all positive. I think that Samsung committed only one big mistake regarding the handset: they have used this screen. On one hand it's not a very good quality (it's hard to read in sunlight), and on the other hand it has a rather low resolution compared to its size, but what's even a bigger problem: it doesn't have a standard screen ratio of 4:3. This means bye-bye to software compatibility, there are lots of programs that simply won't start up on Omnia. Still, besides this (and the X button of course) everything else is quite fine, there are some small mistakes, but those are inevitable. Omnia looks good, it's fast, it's smart and compared to this it's still relatively cheap. One thing's sure: Samsung proved that they are an important manufacturer on the Windows Mobile market.
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Translated by Szaszati
The handset has been provided by Samsung Hungary. Thanks!
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