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Samsung I90016GBEUSLV i900 Omnia 16GB Unlocked Phone – International Version with No U.S Warranty (Modern Black)
From Samsung
List Price: $749.99
Price: $624.99

Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
Ships from and sold by VibeCellular

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Average customer review:

Customer Reviews

very unhappy with my purchase
i have bought lots of items form amazon ,
this is the first time i am unhappy with this purchase.
the main reason i bought this phone is for the wifi feature and this where it failes me, my wife has a nokia n 95 and that works so so well, i am so disapointed in samsung.

unfortunately does not meet my expectations.
unfortunately does not meet my expectations, as its menu is very complicated, nothing friendly. The battery lasts for absolutely nothing not even 24 hours, making only 2 calls during the day, also is heated too much, so much so that I almost burn your hand. I am sorry for samsung thought that the phone could overcome the past, but what I question. pass it on to my language is another problem, as well as this $ 45 cheaper. by what I see in January cost $ 300.

Camera excellent, good sound, excellent audio quality to talk.

My Ideal Phone
Warning! I am NOT a techie. I am just your average everyday technology-using non-…uhm, techie. So what you’ll get here is just a superficial review based on my observations. Ask me what certain programs are for, your guess would be as good as mine. So here goes…

Exterior – Don’t judge a book by its cover for sure! The Samsung Omnia has a very simplified, sleek look. Just three buttons on the front: accept call, end call, and for navigation.

The Touch Screen – The screen is adequate. The touch screen sensitivity is fine, although sometimes you need to tap two or three times. But then again, being the phone is new I suddenly find myself with a very light touch.

The Keypad – Portrait-oriented, the keys are narrower even for my small fingers. But I typed ‘the quick brown fox…’ sentence with only 3 errors. Landscape-oriented, the keys are much much better.

Battery Life – This is the only area with which I had a big problem. I researched a lot about this phone but somehow I missed out on this one important factor. It turns out this phone’s battery can only last an average of 5.8 hours. I charged it one whole day and the next day I had to recharge it twice again, and after 3 hours it died on me. This is NOT good. So I looked up ways of saving battery life and hit on this – http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsMobile/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3979662&SiteID=65. The topic is about HTC Diamond, but the advice works on Omnia. Right now I’m up to 75% charged after 1.5 hours. Believe me, I’d rather have that than charging it for a full day. I’m still researching for other tips on saving power.

Wi-fi – Since this is an unlocked international phone, I don’t get the advantage of 3G network here in the US. But with the battery life issue, that’s okay with me to just use the internet while I’m at home using wi-fi. This might seem very discouraging to some, so you can always avail of the Omnia from Verizon. It can access their 3G network.

Text Messaging – I’m a text fanatic. I give Omnia 100%! The only thing I don’t know how to work out yet (or this might not even be possible) is how to make the messages in my inbox just reflect the sender’s name in the front-view of the folder instead of a snippet of the message. I don’t know, I just feel uncomfortable with seeing snippets of messages at a glance.

Camera – Really really nice!!! 5mp with auto-focus, flash, smile-focus, image editing, and a lot more.

Video – Pretty decent for a phone.

Synching the Phone to PC – Really haven’t figured this out yet. I popped in the CD and followed the steps but I think I missed something since after synching it, my phone alerted me its memory was low. I checked my media storage–I had downloaded almost every file in my computer from pictures to music to videos! That’s a looot of memory! I had to hard-reset my phone to erase everything. Good thing I only had it for 1 day at that time.

That’s it for now. Will be updating if I have any more info to share.