Samsung Omnia – Verizon Wireless

I recently changed my phone  to Samsung Omnia, amazingly it  has lot of cool features and performs decently without disappointing too much.

What is good.

  1. Phone with a laptop style mouse, comes handy when it is hard  to press keys in virtual keyboard
  2. Side bar like in VISTA – another  cool feature, comes handy with limited widgets!!!
  3. FM Radio
  4. About 4 types  of virtual keyboards, not all the best.. but once you get used to it, can’t complain much
  5. WIFI – I think this is windows mobile – very easy to configure and pops up whenever it finds a network
  6. Opera browser is nice, but  it is  much better with www.skyfire.com  – generally on any windows  mobile
  7. Camera – never had  such a good experience in a Phone camera before.. really nice.. see some pictures I took

this is a one click – point and shoot panorama photo without much effort..

View Omnia Photos

 

What is not good!

  1. GPS – I wish it worked better without having to disconnect my phone/broadband – and again, when i do it doesn’t work with google maps or Live Search
  2. Even after selecting  not to notify on a wireless network, it keeps notifying – little  annoying
  3. Battery Life – it was good until i  configured my email, once i configured my email to check every 5 minutes. i have to recharge twice a day – this is again depends on individual user preference
  4. FM Radio doesn’t work on Bluetooth stereo headset