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also known as Samsung i8910 , Samsung Acme , Samsung i8910 HD
Samsung OMNIA HD ReviewsSamsung OMNIA HD Reviews
1. Great Phone!
16 Nov 2009 by Girish
96.7%9.7out of 10
Thanks to phone arena for helping me find this gem. This is my first touch screen phone so I am not exactly a veteran in this area, but I know what I am using. The ease of use of this phone is amazing. I am very impressed with the software. But the best part is the display. It is just MINDBLOWING !!
The only thing I wished was if it was a centimeter or so shorter. But I guess that is asking for too much for a phone in this class.
Overall, I am in love with this phone !!
DISPLAY
DISPLAY
DISPLAY
SOFTWARELenght (slightly)
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2. Great Phone
31 Oct 2009 by A. V.
100%10out of 10
The hardware of the phone is the best there is, but the software is not as good (It's still good)
However it is getting better day by day as there are custom firmware developers who are slowly fixing all the bugs.
They have done wonders to the phone such as implementing a potrait keyboard, fix numerous bugs and improve sound and camera quality
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3. It is simply GREAT
28 Oct 2009 by Vas.
96.7%9.7out of 10
I have been using this phone for a month now.
I didn't find anything i didn't like!
Sound clarity is great too! But loudspeaker is not very good only!
If you are not used to use touch screen when texting, it may be a little difficult in the beginning, but it gets easier in time.
VERY nice phone.. x
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4. Outstanding phone
26 Oct 2009 by Tom Hanks
100%10out of 10
Excellent phone in every aspects. Does well in every field, and in some it is a class leader. Great (!) AMOLED screen, you really have to see it in real life. The screen is not as good as iPhone outdoors to the point that too much sun is reflected through the glass screen. Indoors though, it shines more vividly than iPhone, way more. The screen is comparable to iPhone, though I'd wish symbian some day could support multitouch. Outstanding stereo speakers, excellent quality in the 3.5mm out, it's fast, great camera and video. Audio quality on video recording is quite bad. When recording in HD, it seems it delivers a frame or two below the cited 24 fps in average. Cool slomo recording. Single shot photos are of very good quality! Very good battery life. Hardware in general is some of the best you can have. The major drawback lies within the software. Symbian is for example quite outdated. It was a physical button OS, only to be ported to touch screen.
One of the best phones I've ever used. The only worthy competitor at the moment is iPhone (which I could also rate 10/10), with its slicker UI, multitouch and appstore. Though iPhone does have it's drawbacks too.
Best screen on market (3,7" AMOLED + capasitive at 640x360)
Great hardware (processor, ram, memory)
8 Mpx camera with excellent quality
Good external speakersSymbian not optimized for touch screen (e.g. lacks multitouch)
Poor quality on video recording
Lacks software store like appstore
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5.
27 Sep 2009 by Anonymous
96.7%9.7out of 10
I have had this phone for about a month, and I adore it very much. It is the only phone with the ability to record video in HD (1280x720p). The audio quality in recorded videos is horrible, unless you get an update which makes it record the audio in AAC. The call quality is ok, but it could be better. This phone is the most technologically advanced phone on the market and provides the user with a stunning experience. The only issues I have had is that the phone loves fingerprints and the call quality could be better.
-3.7 inch AMOLED screen
-360x640 resolution with 16 million colors make video playback excellent
-8MP camera takes fantastic pictures
-Webcam built-in
-HD video recording
-Touchscreen is responsive
-16GB built in memory and expands with an extra 32GB to total 48GB
-Has WiFi and bluetooth
-No lag while using the phone at all times-Fingerprint magnet
-Call quality could be better
-Recorded videos have poor audio unless you install an update which solves the issue
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6. great phone!
24 Aug 2009 by stiggy
100%10out of 10
prolly the best phone so far..
Camera = 8mp
Video Cam = hd video recording
Stereo = 5.1 channel stereo effect
Battery life = better than iphone3gs
User Interface = very responsive and user friendly
Memory = (8gb/16gb + can support 32gb of microSD) = 48GB OF OUTSTANDING STORAGE!
8mp camera with HD video recording
video playback
movies!
sound quality
responsiveness
48gb of jampack mp3's and movies!not winmo :D
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7. Great Multimedia Device, Poor as a Phone
20 Aug 2009 by Klein
63.3%6.3out of 10
Had the i8910 for 1 day.
Call quality / voice quality is abysmal - either in GSM or in 3G and with maximum signal strength the person I called said I sounded like I was talking in a tunnel and the person I was talking to sounded muffled and strangely distant. Although I doubt upgrading the firmware will change this (and I was also hoping to get a working GPS). I tried, but the Samsung software said my i8910 wasn't something it could recognize ("Phone software updater does not support the connected model") so upgrading the firmware is also out.
From a multimedia perspective, other than the weight and size, this is a fantastic device, but as a phone it is useless as the purpose of a phone is to make calls. Most review sites (not this one) tend to forget that, and many don't even discuss call quality.
I am selling my Omnia HD i8910 on eBay, and will in future listen to the more carefully thought-through opinions by more critical voices at sites such as Phone Arena instead of the other ones that say "everything is great !".
I am suprised by all the positive assessments in these reviews - either the call quality is different on each phone, or there are different models sold to different regions with different quality, or people who did the review use a phone for multimedia content and not for making calls ?
Stunning Screen
Good re-do of Symbian
Great multi-media capabilities
DivX player without need to recode
Good Music Quality
1500 mAh batteryCall quality / voice quality is abysmal - not useful as a phone
GPS doesn't seem to get a signal
Samsung PC Suite recognizes and connects to phone, refuses to update
Touch-Screen far lower sensitivity/ergonomics than iPhone
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8. 10 out of 10
17 Aug 2009 by Jack Mate
100%10out of 10
First of all, and to clear all the troubled minds, this phone was never meant to compete with the iPhone, because it is in an all new league. And if you have an iPhone that you love and you want to change to the Omnia HD, just for the amazing specs, don't do it, please.
This is nothing like the iPhone, it's way better, starting with the 3,7" AMOLED screen, the ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz processor and the massive 256 Mb of RAM, microSDHC slot, multitasking, HD video recording, and the possibility to use all the thousands already available S60 5th ed. applications.
Personally i really like this software, and i've been using S60's for several years. But i can understand people don't liking the OS, because there's still quite a lot of minor bugs in this 5th ed.
So, if you're not a fan of Symbian touch phones, and you don't believe that samsung will release several firmwares to fix all the problems, and you can't see the truly amazing device the Omnia HD is, this phone is not for you.
By the way, if you want to compare it, please do it with the Nokia N97 (way bellow in performance) or the Sony Ericsson Satio (not released yet)
PS: as for the battery life issue, this phone is totally customizable, so there's a lot of definitions you can turn off to extend the autonomy.
Best phone ever, I say...
>Huge vivid AMOLED screen
>Really fast interface
>totally multimedia prepared (DivX/Xvid codecs with subs supported)
>Big amount of free RAM after the boot
>3D graphic acelerator
>The ultimate all-in-one, future proof device
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9. Bad phone
21 Jul 2009 by Luiz Carlos
20%2out of 10
I had an Iphone by 2 years and change for this horrible phone named Ominia HD (Horrible Device). I regret very much. Bad battery life (you read some lies about the battery in some sites). Too many touches to reach any aplication. The only good points are the sound speaker and video player, but you don't have battery enough to use.
I hate this phone, if you don't have, don't buy it rather buy an Iphone that is the best.
nothingeverything
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10. great hardware, but software inconsistent
9 Jul 2009 by Tsais
86.7%8.7out of 10
Well, I'm not regretting my purchase, however, the software situation out of the box isn't so pretty.
The more elegant way of finding and playing back your videos somehow fails to recognize or play back about a quarter of my mp4 files, while browsing from the file manager lets me play them all back, cause a different video player gets started. Video is nice on that screen and the speakers are good enough to watch movies without headphones or even listen to some music. I found myself turning it down at night for fear of waking someone up.
S60 v5 theme files I downloaded from the web caused an incompatibility warning on install, and didn't work. Haven't found a theme editor yet for it. Samsung's support site seems dismal, the only way I found any updates was by using google to end up on Samsung's russian site... its annoying, given how Nokia spoonfeeds you with stuff for their phones.
I installed Fring, and so far, it works well enough (given that skype VoIP traffic has to go through Fring's servers, which degrades sound quality somewhat) However, the phone bugs me with frequent "wifi connection lost" messages, even though I'm right next to the access point here.
I just hope the phone doesn't have a habit of dropping the wifi connection after let it sit around the house for a while, cause obviously, nobody will be able to call you through skype if you're not connected. My old Nokia got the boot because it disconnected from wifi on its own after 30 minutes.
So, anyway, while the i8910 isn't the perfect device, none of the others are either, and I'm having good hopes that more 3rd party stuff for S60 V5 will eventually mitigate Samsung's lack of focus on software. I guess that's why people joke that "Nokia has become a decent software company, but have now forgotten how to build cutting edge phones"
Hope this helps, I'd definitely recommend this phone, it doesn't seem to big in your hand either, the pictures make it look like more big slab than it is.
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great screen
S60 v5
HD video
good speakersNo skype integration unlike the N97!
Only skype light which is bad to boot and no touch screen support.
Samsung's software support website is barren compared to Nokia
2 different video players, one can't play certain MP4 videos, while the other can.
4 shortcut limit for home screen (for people who don't like touchwiz)
Media browser muddles images and videos together, yipes!
when recording video, audio recording is very poor
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