Samsung Omnia 900 Review Specification

Samsung Omnia Review :

In a nutshell: The Samsung Omnia is the hottest phone of 2008. It's a touchscreen smartphone and, unlike the iPhone, it does everything that a high-spec phone ought to do. The Omnia has everything: a 5 megapixel camera, 3G video calling, a music player & FM radio, fast web browsing, the most memory ever seen on a mobile phone, and it connects to any device you can think of via Bluetooth, USB or Wi-Fi.
Best buy: *Free* with half-price line rental from Dialaphone (Black) or Dialaphone (White) or Mobiles.co.uk.

Wow! While Apple have been hyping their iPhone 3G for the best part of a year, the Samsung Omnia has come from nowhere, and is the phone that the iPhone should have been. Whereas the iPhone misses out on all kinds of essential features, the Omnia does almost everything that you could want from a phone, and does it very well.

The Omnia looks super-cool too. The sleek platinum finish and the slim body give the phone wow! factor, even before you start using it.

Samsung have been churning out touchscreen phones since the beginning of 2008. First the Armani, then the Nerva, then the Tocco, each time refining the design and getting closer to the perfect phone. Now the Omnia looks like it could be "the one". Samsung's touchscreen user interface has improved a little with each release, although we criticised the Tocco for having a smaller screen. There is no problem with the Omnia however, which has a massive WQVGA 3.2 inch screen - that's even bigger than the LG Viewty and only slightly smaller than the iPhone 3G. The TouchWiz user interface is an excellent implementation of a touchscreen phone. TouchWiz uses a variety of intuitive touch controls, e.g. tap, sweep, drag and drop operations as well as an on-screen qwerty keyboard. The screen uses tactile feedback to help you feel your way around the menus and controls, and even hard-core texters should be happy with the result. The iPhone may have paved the way in touchscreen UI design, but Samsung have followed very well.

The Omnia is a smartphone running Windows Mobile 6.1. This has a number of advantages. Firstly, the user interface will be familiar to PC users, even including a mobile version of Internet Explorer for web browsing. Secondly, the system enables convenient access to Office documents such as PowerPoint, Excel and Word (for editing as well as viewing). Thirdly, you can download third-party applications and install them on your phone. The phone comes pre-installed with very comprehensive personal organiser functions. The touchscreen user interface can sometimes be a little slow and more complicated to use than conventional phones, but we've got to say just how impressed we are by its robustness. Most smart phones crash and freeze regularly, but not the Omnia.

Let's take a look at the multimedia capabilities of the phone now. Summarising in three words: it does everything! Really! Let's consider the spec: A 5 megapixel camera with face-detection autofocus, smile detection (takes a shot when everyone is smiling), auto-panorama, LED flash and digital zoom. It may not have the optical zoom of the Samsung G800, the optics of the Nokia N95, or the xenon flash of the Sony Ericsson K800i, but we would rate it in the top 10 of current camera phones. In any case, it walks all over the feeble camera in the iPhone 3G. The camera can be used as a business card reader too. It also has an excellent video camera (with image stabilisation), and the video playback capability includes Divx support. Of course it's a 3G phone with video calling too. The music player is very good and supports nearly all formats, and an FM radio is included too. Web browsing is also an enjoyable experience on the Omnia, with fast HSDPA downloads, the large touchscreen, and advanced Opera browser all working together to provide a good experience. The Omnia also comes with GPS navigation built in.

One of the outstanding features of the Omnia is the absolutely huge memory that it supports. Available in a choice of 8 or 16 Gbytes, it also has a microSD memory card slot, enabling an additional 8 Gbytes to be added. This means that you can store a huge amount of music or video (around 8,000 songs or 23 DVD-quality films) and you can even store up to 120 Mbytes worth of text or MMS messages.

The battery life is very good too, which is quite a surprise for a touchscreen phone with so much functionality. We doubt Samsung's official figures of 450 hours standby however.

Connectivity is unbeatable, with a choice of Bluetooth, USB and Wi-Fi.

Really, the Omnia is an amazing phone, and it's no surprise that it's moved right to the top of the best seller charts at launch. Touchscreen phones are the hottest product in 2008, and the Omnia is arguably the best so far. If you fancied the new iPhone or the LG Viewty, you should really be looking at the Omnia instead. The only issue is the Windows Mobile operating system, which is very powerful, but makes the menus on the Omnia more complex than a conventional phone. But even so, this is definitely a 5 star phone!!!

The Sony Ericsson W960 Reviews Specification

The Sony Ericsson W960 or W960i as some will see it is a sleek and stylish phone that will woo you into buying it, let us start with what many people will class as a downside. The downside is that it does not have a card slot, but hold freeze step back and rewind that “Who needs a card slot” it has a massive 8GB of internal memory that is huge for internal standards not alone card slot expansion standards.
Check out the specs and video below.

Sony Ericsson W960i features & Specifications -

• UMTS / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900
• 2.6 Inch TFT Touch Screen - 256K colors - 240 x 320 pixels
• Handwriting recognition
• MP3, AAC & Polyphonic (40 channels) Ringtones
• Composer & Download (Ringtones)
• Vibration
• GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
• WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11b
• 3G 384 kbps
• Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
• USB v2.0
• 30 received, 30 missed calls & 30 dialed (Call Records)
• Photocall & 2000 entry phonebook
• 8 GB internal memory
• WAP 2.0/xHTML & HTML(Opera 8.0)
• RSS reader
• Symbian OS v9.1, UIQ 3.0
• MMS, Email, SMS & Instant Messaging
• Games
• 3 MP - 2048×1536 pixels with auto focus and flash video(VGA)
• secondary VGA video call camera
• FM radio with RDS
• Java MIDP 2.0
• Walkman Touch player
• TrackID music recognition
• Built-in hands free, Image viewer, Organiser, Voice memo, Picture/document editor & T9
• Up to 370 hours standby
• Up to 9 hours talk time
• 109 x 55 x 16 mm
• 119 grams

Sony Ericsson W960 Downsides –
NO Infrared port, NO HSCSD & NO EDGE. Many of you will say that it has NO card slot and class that as a downside, no way is it a downside when you have 8GB of internal memory.

Nokia N95 Review Specification

Nokia N95 : The most technically advanced smartphone ever! Complete with GPS satellite navigation, a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, 3G video calling, and every other gadget you can think of! On the downside it's large, and like most smartphones does not have 100% robust firmware. If you've used another Nseries phone or Symbian phone before, then you'll love it! Available in 4GB and 8GB versions; in silver, black or red.Best buy (Nokia N95 4GB): *Free* with half-price line rental from Dialaphone (Silver) or Dialaphone (Red Sport).Best buy (Nokia N95 8GB): *Free* with half-price line rental from Dialaphone or direct from Three (the 8 Gbyte version comes preloaded with a full length copy of the feature film Spiderman 3).
Another Nokia Nseries smartphone! And this one is the most technically advanced ever! Can it really live up to the hype, or will it prove to be as unreliable and bug-ridden as some of Nokia's other Nseries phones?

The headline features of the eagerly-awaited Nokia N95 are mouth-wateringly amazing:

Built-in GPS navigation
5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss & Tessar optics
Wi-Fi wireless internet connection
2.6 inch display with 16 million colours
Ultra-fast HSDPA data transfer
Let's start with the basics. The Nokia N95 is a 3G smartphone built on the Series 60 Symbian interface (version 3.1). Let's be clear from the start that these types of phone are slow, have a tendency to freeze or shut down, and have unstable firmware. They are also large and heavy. At 120g the N95 is of average weight for a smartphone, but is pretty bulky, despite its slide design. At least you won't forget which pocket it's in! When closed, you can access menu functions using the 5-way navigation key and the associated control keys. The N95 also has several other dedicated media keys that can be used as shortcuts to media functions. This is a good feature if you like to have lots of buttons to push, but sometimes they just end up getting in the way. When you slide the phone open you have access to a full keypad, but like the Nokia N73, the buttons are too small to be really comfortable. The user interface will be familiar to anyone who has used a Series 60 phone before: it's not as simple to use as the Nokias of olden days, but you wouldn't expect such a high powered device to be, would you? So, without getting into the functionality of the phone yet, we'd give it 2 stars for usability.

Now, the kind of person likely to buy this phone isn't going to be put off by wimpy considerations like size and ergonomics. Perhaps not even by warnings of bugs and a sluggish user interface. It's what the phone does that matters most. And this is where the N95 really delivers! The first multimedia feature that you encounter is the screen, and it's a massive one: 2.6 inches across, 240 x 320 pixels, and an incredible 16 million colours. An ambient light detector is used to control the brightness of the screen, making it usable under most lighting conditions. It's one of the best screens ever, and does full justice to the camera and navigation systems.

The camera is a first in the UK: the first phone camera to hit the 5 megapixel mark. At this number of pixels, you can (theoretically) match anything that a dedicated digital camera is capable of - provided that you have the optics to back up the megapixel grunt. Nokia have been developing their camera capabilities quite impressively recently using Carl-Zeiss optics and Tessar lenses - the Nokia N93 being the best camera phone before the release of the N95. The N95 lacks the optical zoom of the N93, but retains the autofocus, flash and lens. Does the 5 megapixel sensor make up for the lack of an optical zoom? The answer is no, so in our opinion the N93 is still king of the camera phones, but for practical purposes the N95 is a better option. It can certainly match or beat the Sony Ericsson K800i. The video camera is also outstanding, recording in VGA resolution (640 x 480 pixels) at up to 30 frames per second with stereo audio. There's a second front-facing camera for making video calls too.

The other most interesting feature of the N95 is the built-in GPS navigation system. The N95 actually has a GPS system built into the phone, that communicates directly with the satellite. This enables you to use the phone to track your position either on foot or in-car. You'll need to buy a license to use the Nokia mapping system though. Now, whilst this is a nice feature to have in a phone, we've got to say that it doesn't match the quality of a dedicated satnav system like the TomTom One. The sensitivity and reliability of the GPS receiver is not as good, and neither is the user-friendliness of the system.

These are the most groundbreaking features, but the N95 has almost everything else you could think of including in a phone too: a music player with support for all common music formats, a stereo FM radio, integrated handsfree speaker, speaker independent voice dialling, talking ringtones, HSDPA (the fast data transfer technology dubbed "3.5G") and lots more! When it comes to connectivity, the N95 is the best-connected device in town, with support for Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, Infrared, Wireless LAN, TV-Out and a 3.5 mm headphone jack. Its memory is also more than adequate with up to 160 Mbytes of onboard memory and support for microSD memory cards (up to 8 Gbytes). Battery life is OK - when you consider how much work has to be done to power this beast, you can't really set your expectations too high.

In conclusion, The Nokia N95 is bound to be a smash hit, but equally there are bound to be unsatisfied users returning their N95 to the shop. Early adopters will love the wealth of features that this phone offers (literally the best you can get at the time of launch), but the N95 does suffer from practical disadvantages, and you'll need to decide whether the benefits outweigh the problems.
The new Nokia N96 is a slightly improved version of the N95 8GB. The new Samsung i8510 is very similar to the Nokia N95, using the same Series 60 user interface, but offers an improved 8 megapixel camera and some other refinements.
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