Samsung Omnia i900 review

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October 11, 2009

Posted by: bdgr

"I want to like it, but I don't"

What I like:

It looks good and 'should' be great...

What I don't like:

not very responsive

Review:

I started off really liking this phone - not having had a touchscreen phone before I enjoyed the novelty. However....

The phone has stopped switching from portrait to landscape viewing unless its plugged into the mains.
The keyboard layout is clumsy. Letters on one page, numbers on the other - fair enough, but only the full stop and comma are set with the letters, with the apostrophe grouped (with other symbols) in with the numbers! This makes writing words like I'm, I'll that's etc a right chore (maybe I'm being picky?).
It takes an age to start up - over 1 minute from turning it on to getting to the front screen.
When the phone is locked, sometimes I can answer a call, while other times it wants me to unlock the phone to press the answer button. And doing this takes enough time for the call to go to voicemail which turns the phone into a fancy pager! I've lost count of the number calls I've missed because of this.
You get a stylus to use... with nowhere on the phone to store it! Because of this it's never used. I don't want to have to find the stylus before i can use the phone!!! Thankfully it works just as well with your finger (unless you want to use the scrolling bar on applications - its just too fiddly without the stylus).

It's a shame because the phone itself looks good, and with the windows system is easy to use due to familiarity. Plus with office included you can easily use word/excel/powerpoint and transfer to your pc.