Samsung Omnia II I8000 Smartphone
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- Screen Size (Diagonal): 3.7 inch
- Installed Memory: 256 MB
- Operating System: Windows Mobile
- Connectivity: USB, WiFi
- Performance: Quad Band
- Design: Mobile
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Handsome phone with very good features
Pros
Cool looking, windows 6.5 pro, responds to your touch.
Cons
Fingertip and scratch prone. Sometimes unresponsive or slow. No place to store the stylus pen.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
Very solid phone, good technology behind it, good OS, and very handsome.
Beautiful phone. All black and shine. Mine came with Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional already installed and, boy, is a big step from 6.1
I've been using my Omnia II i8000 for a couple of months now. I have an unlimited internet plan, so I use it to check my gmail account every 10 minutes, to download podcasts, surf the web, and check RSS news.
Aside the 5 megapixel autofocus main camera, it also has a video call camera next to the screen. I tried it just once out of curiosity and it worked great, that's the future. But I don't use it because I package doesn't include video conference so it costs me extra. By the way, the other phone I called using this feature was my wife's Omnia i900. The video was good, though a little choppy, but I guess that's my service and not the phone.
I have the 8GB version, which for now is plenty of space for me. It has an expansion slot to add a card for more space, so that's no problem at all.
The touchscreen is plastic, so it scratches easily. The shiny body is extremely fingerprint prone. It cames with a stylus for writing and pointing, but it doesn't have a slot to carry it. The Omnia i900 had a slot on the case. The i8000s case is a lot thinner, looks way cheaper, and doesn't have that slot, so if you want to use it (and if you use applications that needs it, like MS Word or Minesweeper) it will end up hanging from the little string on a little slot in one of the phone's corner. Very bad concept.
Phone calls are very clear: I hear the clear and they hear me clear and loud. The speakerphone is also loud, though is not as clear, and doesn't cancel the surround noise.
Battery is good. When I use the phone intensively all day, one charge lasts the whole day. When used normally, one charge lasts a couple of days. But, remember, my phone is 2 months old yet. This changes with time.
It has most functions and apps that came with the operative system, like slide to unlock (and slide to answer or to ignore a call when in locked mode), the very nice Messaging center where email, sms, mms, etc. are all concentrated), opera and ie browsers, fm radio (using the wired stereo earphone as antenna), it plays flash and videos from youtube, it has a video editor, an app called Midomi which listen to a tune in the radio (or you can sing it yourself) and it tells you the name of the song and plays the original, rss reader, podcast retriever, adobe reader, live messenger, microsoft my phone which lets you syncronize some or all of your content to a free Web account in the Microsoft servers, MSN Money, a Facebook application, SharePix which allows you to send your photos to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, Friendster, MySpace, and Photobucket, and many more stuff.
The screen is one of those new Amoled which it's suppose to be a great advance over the traditionals. I don't see anything that remarkable, though. I can't still see the screen on bright sunlight as somebody said in one review of this phone that I read before I bought it.
It's resistant. One time it fell down from about four feet and hit the granite floor hard, and it doesn't even has a dent.
The button that the original Omnia had was replaced by the "cube", which as far as I can see, it's just for showing. I don't see it as useful as perhaps the designers thought it will be. You press it and a 3D cube appears which you move it around to select an application. That's it, fancy but I don't use it.
The phone not very responsive: if you click on a control or on a button, be it from a Web (link) or within an application, you won't get an immediate response, but instead you'll get a delay of something between half and one and a half second. That sometimes makes me nuts because I don't know if I'm clicking over the right link on a Web page.
It has a GPS, but it takes about three or more minutes for it to begin detecting the satellites. It works very good with Google Maps and an Internet connection. If for some reason the GPS is not working (like you're inside a building) it stills detect your position (as not nearly as exact) using cell phone tower triangulation.
Similar as the iPhone, the Omnia II i8000 is aware of the position it is. It knows if is tilted, horizontal, or vertical. There are several games that take advantage of this, like Asphalt 4 which comes included. And when you're in a phone call, it turns off the screen, but when you move it to check how many minutes you've been talking, it senses your movement and turns it on again, just to turn it off once again after you return it to your ear.
The camera is good, it has a continous light that acts as a flash, but if you or your subject are not still enough, you'll get many blurred photos. So it will work better in daylight. Also, in the dark, you'll get red eyes on all of your subjects.
I like my Omnia II i8000 a lot, it has very cool looks and cool system sounds. One of the things I like most is how it feedsback in response of the touchscreen. It feels vibrating when scrolling down pages, clicking, etc. along with those cool sounds.
I don't like that it doesn't have a slot for the stylus pen, the delay in responsiveness, and that the screen scratches very easily. It should be made of glass.
I installed SPB Mobile Shell 3.5 and gives a new look to the interface. But the 3D carousel don't work as good with this new Omnia II i8000 as with the original Omnia i900. The 3d carousel moves very smoothly on my wife's Omnia i900 while in my Omnia II i8000 does not.
I've been using my Omnia II i8000 for a couple of months now. I have an unlimited internet plan, so I use it to check my gmail account every 10 minutes, to download podcasts, surf the web, and check RSS news.
Aside the 5 megapixel autofocus main camera, it also has a video call camera next to the screen. I tried it just once out of curiosity and it worked great, that's the future. But I don't use it because I package doesn't include video conference so it costs me extra. By the way, the other phone I called using this feature was my wife's Omnia i900. The video was good, though a little choppy, but I guess that's my service and not the phone.
I have the 8GB version, which for now is plenty of space for me. It has an expansion slot to add a card for more space, so that's no problem at all.
The touchscreen is plastic, so it scratches easily. The shiny body is extremely fingerprint prone. It cames with a stylus for writing and pointing, but it doesn't have a slot to carry it. The Omnia i900 had a slot on the case. The i8000s case is a lot thinner, looks way cheaper, and doesn't have that slot, so if you want to use it (and if you use applications that needs it, like MS Word or Minesweeper) it will end up hanging from the little string on a little slot in one of the phone's corner. Very bad concept.
Phone calls are very clear: I hear the clear and they hear me clear and loud. The speakerphone is also loud, though is not as clear, and doesn't cancel the surround noise.
Battery is good. When I use the phone intensively all day, one charge lasts the whole day. When used normally, one charge lasts a couple of days. But, remember, my phone is 2 months old yet. This changes with time.
It has most functions and apps that came with the operative system, like slide to unlock (and slide to answer or to ignore a call when in locked mode), the very nice Messaging center where email, sms, mms, etc. are all concentrated), opera and ie browsers, fm radio (using the wired stereo earphone as antenna), it plays flash and videos from youtube, it has a video editor, an app called Midomi which listen to a tune in the radio (or you can sing it yourself) and it tells you the name of the song and plays the original, rss reader, podcast retriever, adobe reader, live messenger, microsoft my phone which lets you syncronize some or all of your content to a free Web account in the Microsoft servers, MSN Money, a Facebook application, SharePix which allows you to send your photos to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, Friendster, MySpace, and Photobucket, and many more stuff.
The screen is one of those new Amoled which it's suppose to be a great advance over the traditionals. I don't see anything that remarkable, though. I can't still see the screen on bright sunlight as somebody said in one review of this phone that I read before I bought it.
It's resistant. One time it fell down from about four feet and hit the granite floor hard, and it doesn't even has a dent.
The button that the original Omnia had was replaced by the "cube", which as far as I can see, it's just for showing. I don't see it as useful as perhaps the designers thought it will be. You press it and a 3D cube appears which you move it around to select an application. That's it, fancy but I don't use it.
The phone not very responsive: if you click on a control or on a button, be it from a Web (link) or within an application, you won't get an immediate response, but instead you'll get a delay of something between half and one and a half second. That sometimes makes me nuts because I don't know if I'm clicking over the right link on a Web page.
It has a GPS, but it takes about three or more minutes for it to begin detecting the satellites. It works very good with Google Maps and an Internet connection. If for some reason the GPS is not working (like you're inside a building) it stills detect your position (as not nearly as exact) using cell phone tower triangulation.
Similar as the iPhone, the Omnia II i8000 is aware of the position it is. It knows if is tilted, horizontal, or vertical. There are several games that take advantage of this, like Asphalt 4 which comes included. And when you're in a phone call, it turns off the screen, but when you move it to check how many minutes you've been talking, it senses your movement and turns it on again, just to turn it off once again after you return it to your ear.
The camera is good, it has a continous light that acts as a flash, but if you or your subject are not still enough, you'll get many blurred photos. So it will work better in daylight. Also, in the dark, you'll get red eyes on all of your subjects.
I like my Omnia II i8000 a lot, it has very cool looks and cool system sounds. One of the things I like most is how it feedsback in response of the touchscreen. It feels vibrating when scrolling down pages, clicking, etc. along with those cool sounds.
I don't like that it doesn't have a slot for the stylus pen, the delay in responsiveness, and that the screen scratches very easily. It should be made of glass.
I installed SPB Mobile Shell 3.5 and gives a new look to the interface. But the 3D carousel don't work as good with this new Omnia II i8000 as with the original Omnia i900. The 3d carousel moves very smoothly on my wife's Omnia i900 while in my Omnia II i8000 does not.
