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We can’t speak about Omnia HD without using of the following words: impressive, excellent, hurricanes, fascinating. What a piece of technological leadership is hidden under the name Omnia HD, and why this model has dropped competitors in February. All these will be discussed in our article.
Appearance
A multimedia entertainment tablet or a natural competitor of any PMP Archos- this is exactly what can be told about Omnia after the first minutes of acquaintance. However, the manufacturer claims that this is a smartphone with S60 5th Ed on board and therefore it can be evaluated as Smart.
Omnia HD leaves the impression of the handheld PMP, as when you look at it attentively on the front panel you will notice the slot for conversational dynamics on the top, as well as VGA-camera for video calls. The central button i8910 allows entering the main menu and switching between running applications in the Task Manager.
But all these buttons and speakers are fitted within a silver border. Yes, it is a 3.7-inch AMOLED-QHD resolution display with 360 x 640 pixels and the ability to display up to 16 million colors. The picture on the screen looks exactly the way we used to see it on the 24 “tube monitors with Mitsubishi Diamond. Yes, the screen is luxurious. Everything is excellent – starting with the color and ending with the angles of vision.
One screen for watching video clearly isn’t enough, that’s why on the upper and lower edges stereo speakers are located, next to which there is a 3,5-mm input for headphones on top, and the microphone at bottom.
On the left end, there are convenient buttons, as well as a slot for microSD HC- memory card, which adds to the built-in 8 / 16 GB up to 32 GB of additional space for any need. On the right end of Omnia HD you can see the locking button, large and convenient camera button.
There is an 8-MP module in the center of the silver frame with autofocuse and many interesting features, about which we will tell you later.
Most of the surface is occupied with the battery compartment cover, which you are to push with your big finger and pull it down to tinkling of the strikers. Under the lid there is Li-Ion battery 1500 mA / h. The smartphone works two days with an average load.
Directly above the battery compartment there is a slot for SIM-card, it’s better to say for USIM.
Interface
About the possibilities of the device, we will talk a little later, but now let’s look at the best standby mode, where you can place the traditional filling for smartphones with the four labels under the top row of indicators, icons and clock. You can “hang” full static background wallpaper, or dwell on the version of the theme. Widgets are also presented to us, which speed is much higher than in the other telephones of this company.
As we have mentioned, the remaining options for standby mode are not so interesting to be described. By the way, Omnia HD, as Nokia 5800, in the main menu can display six icons instead of 12. In the settings, you can setup a whole bunch of interesting, and sometimes necessary things, checking of certificates, disabling automatically rotation of the screen on the left side, as well as the ability to customize the work of connections.
Communications
The place for the infrared port was not found, as there is Bluetooth 2.0 with support for a pile of profiles for all tastes; among them are EDR and A2DP. It’s interesting to listen to music via wireless headphones due to good sound quality, and receive files at a speed of 130-150 Kb / s.
And for entertainment at high speeds it’s better to take a Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g module, providing traditional search comfort to WLAN- points of access with following connection. By the way, if a connection is active, the phone will let the use of GPRS-connection program, until the breakage of communication.
Music and Video
You just need to take AVI video in encoded DivX, or XVid, with subsequent transfer of a file in the device memory or on expansion card, and its opening through the file manager. That’s all, now just watch and enjoy, because clips in the resolution of 1280 x 720 are swallowed by standard players to cheer. Of course videos can be stretched, it is possible to contract up to 1:1, and you can scroll through virtual buttons or the scroll bar.
It is already difficult to surprise us with music. It remains only to look at the screen while playing music at 10-position volume control, standard inactive equalizer settings and a few additions to the “distortion” of sound. But this is trifless compared with the beautiful three-dimensional visualization.
What have we forgotten? Oh yes, sound. Margin of volume in the subway is zero, on the street 10-20%, or one or two divisions. But the quality of play is comparable to the softness of Samsung MP3-players. But the overall picture is too soft, and there isn’t sharp deep bass, as well as penetrating the upper frequencies. But the ears do not get tired after 3-4 hours of listening between meetings at work, and this is exactly a positive feature of the Omnia HD sound.
Radio is not deprived of the attention, just on the opposite. Samsung has lots of features, which allow the brand to attract loyal owners to its side each year, and high-quality sound recording with 192 kbits bit rate, only confirms this. But this is only a drop in the sea of possibilities, there is a place of memory for 50 stations, and support for RDS and AF.
Camera
Samsung Omnia HD i8910 camera has a resolution of 8 MP and autofocus optics. In addition, there is, power LED flash. With regard to the interface to work with the camera, everything is done in the simplest and convenient way for working with both hands.
There are two columns of icons with settings (flash, autofocus, image brightness, the choice of scenes, changing shooting modes, change the permission of the frame, as well as the transition to video). But before shooting video it’s better to drop in the settings and find the setting of sensitivity ISO, shift quality compression, the use of HDR, as well as the shutter sound setup.
Conclusions
If you do not have any problems with the means to all sorts of pocket-sized fun, yes, moreover, you want to feel something really new and impressive – you can take Samsung Omnia HD. Indeed, this summer i8910 is the most interesting mobile phone. But if the OMAP 3430 and the 720p does not make the heart beat more often, and you don’t have enough money– you’d better give up dealing with it, because software from Samsung traditionally concedes its competitor Nokia.
