There was a time where I had the urgency to get the wife a new Windows Mobile based PDA
to replace her horrific Samsung B7320 Omnia pro, a qwerty-key but also a Windows Mobile based PDA. So I had closed a trade-in deal with a chap for her Samsung B7320 Omnia pro for an older but I assumed and thought to be better PDA, the Samsung Omnia i900 16GB. It turned out to be another folly.
to replace her horrific Samsung B7320 Omnia pro, a qwerty-key but also a Windows Mobile based PDA. So I had closed a trade-in deal with a chap for her Samsung B7320 Omnia pro for an older but I assumed and thought to be better PDA, the Samsung Omnia i900 16GB. It turned out to be another folly. The Samsung Omnia i900
basically is a Windows Mobile 6.1 PDA which received quite impressive ratings online. It has 2G and 3G network capabilities, reasonably good 3.2” TFT resistive touchscreen with resolutions of 240 x 400, massive 16GB storage, great 5MP camera (at its period) and almost every goodness of a Windows 6.1 PDA had. Most importantly, Windows 6.1 is good enough for us to use Pocket Islam. The wife also uses the threaded view SMS very much and also the unlimited phone calls and phone books entries. The PDA is light at around 122 g, but a little wide for easy usage and texting while on the move. The used set, we had acquired is also equipped with a portable Garmin Navigator system, which utilized the Omnia i900 built-in GPS. However, locking and detecting location is tremendously slow. It most scenarios, we had already drove half-way before the GPS manage to locked on. I was so amazed on how could this set be reviewed positively. Maybe the Omnia i900 we had was a faulty set.
basically is a Windows Mobile 6.1 PDA which received quite impressive ratings online. It has 2G and 3G network capabilities, reasonably good 3.2” TFT resistive touchscreen with resolutions of 240 x 400, massive 16GB storage, great 5MP camera (at its period) and almost every goodness of a Windows 6.1 PDA had. Most importantly, Windows 6.1 is good enough for us to use Pocket Islam. The wife also uses the threaded view SMS very much and also the unlimited phone calls and phone books entries. The PDA is light at around 122 g, but a little wide for easy usage and texting while on the move. The used set, we had acquired is also equipped with a portable Garmin Navigator system, which utilized the Omnia i900 built-in GPS. However, locking and detecting location is tremendously slow. It most scenarios, we had already drove half-way before the GPS manage to locked on. I was so amazed on how could this set be reviewed positively. Maybe the Omnia i900 we had was a faulty set.Next was the touch screen. The displayed keyboard was so small and it we could hardly get the correct keys. And the screen is somehow misaligned and insensitive to the extent that we need to tap twice or more. However, the wife managed to live with that and adapting her fingers with such horrendous touch screen. Maybe it was just me (LOL). The needed application worked ok with the PDA, with nothing to complain. Performance wise, the Samsung Omnia i900 is much faster than its younger brother, the Samsung Omnia 2 i8000. Where did it go wrong? The Samsung Omnia i900 is using only Marvell PXA312 624 MHz processor, while its newer sibling, the Omnia 2 i8000
uses faster and better Samsung S3C6410 800MHz processor, which is also has a dedicated graphics accelerator. Secondly, the Omnia i900 we had had like 16GB of storage, which means bigger load than the newer Omnia 2 i8000 8GB. After a few thoughts, it came to a personal conclusion that, Samsung might have been trying to improve some of the shortcomings of their Omnia i900 in their Omnia 2 i8000. Yes, they managed to do that. Better touch screen, better resolutions, faster GPS… but at they missed on other places which previously they did ok.
uses faster and better Samsung S3C6410 800MHz processor, which is also has a dedicated graphics accelerator. Secondly, the Omnia i900 we had had like 16GB of storage, which means bigger load than the newer Omnia 2 i8000 8GB. After a few thoughts, it came to a personal conclusion that, Samsung might have been trying to improve some of the shortcomings of their Omnia i900 in their Omnia 2 i8000. Yes, they managed to do that. Better touch screen, better resolutions, faster GPS… but at they missed on other places which previously they did ok. Battery life is short with Omnia i900. So did our hope of getting it fixed or getting explanations. The PDA tend to be in strike mode when after it switched itself OFF due to low battery. And getting it back on after that is tough. The Samsung Omnia 16GB is supposedly to have 16GB of internal space, or somewhere near that. But after adding and using this storage for around 3GB, the PDA had already showing an error message telling "Storage Memory is Critically Low". What the… Was the PDA a faulty set? Or we were reading it wrongly at the box, ads, online and everywhere… its Samsung Omnia i900 3GB!
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