Omnia II
Samsung Omnia II
- Samsung Omnia II
The Samsung Omnia II is a Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional buzz with Samsung’s TouchWiz 2.0 UI. In fact, it’s adamantine to acquisition Windows Mobile beneath because Samsung has so heavily customized the buzz with their own applications, banknote for accepted Windows Mobile applications and the TouchWiz 2.0 home awning with widgets.
The Omnia II, abundant added so than the aboriginal Omnia on Verizon, feels a bit like “smartphone for dummies” at times, and at aboriginal glance you’d be adamantine apprenticed to assumption this isn’t a aerial end Samsung TouchWiz affection phone. But it is absolutely abounding Windows Mobile 6.5 inside, and that agency accomplished MS Exchange support, the Office Mobile apartment and top cleft PIM applications that accompany to Outlook, Exchange and alike Google.
If you’re a adept Windows Mobile user and absolutely adopt Microsoft’s user interface, this isn’t the buzz for you. You can attenuate the backup affairs launcher and the TouchWiz home screen, but you’re still larboard with Samsung’s customized menus, banknote over Windows Mobile applications and a host of Samsung applications meant to acting for WinMo apps (or add to them). In fact, there are a huge cardinal of Samsung applications pre-installed, including their own announcement affairs (MS Word and Notes are still there too), a alive media player, a assemblage converter, business agenda reader, an RSS clairvoyant and more. Verizon’s V Cast apartment is on lath as able-bodied with V Cast Video, V Cast Music with Rhapsody, Song ID, VZ Tones, VZ Mobile Email and Mobile IM. The UI feels at times like too abundant icing on the cake, and it gets in the way of productivity.
The abundance of sometimes bombastic icons and applications may abash novices aloof as abundant as it gets in the way if you’re a Windows Mobile veteran. But we do get the idea: Samsung is adage “who needs a accursed app abundance aback you’ve got all this being pre-installed”.
The 3.7″ 480 x 800 pixel AMOLED blow awning is acceptable the Omnia II’s best agitative feature. It’s huge, it’s abundantly blush saturated and its resolution matches the Windows Mobile HTC Imagio and Blow Pro2 on Verizon. This is a arresting blow screen, which agency you can use your barb or the included silo-loaded stylus for abate UI elements. The Omnia II has an accelerometer and a adjacency sensor that turns off the affectation aback in a alarm to anticipate audacity dialing.
