What is wrong with the guys who develop these interfaces. That tiny OK button in the top right. The completely different look to every screen practically and the "NO WAY DID YOU DO THAT FEATURE" of multi-character buttons. This is the opposite of a smart phone. It is truly a "dumb" phone.

Try again...maybe this time from scratch.

se-online

I'm so sick of seeing splash screens as something is taking an unbearably long time to boot up. Here, I'm going to click on Mobile Navigator. Let's wait 6 minutes for it to come back. Oh, look, let me click the web browser. Oh yay, look, errors. Big surprise. If this is a corporate sponsored demo, it sucked. How about load the POS with some content, and THEN show a demo. Look, picture viewer shows ... wait for it..... wait for it.... PICTURES! Oh, look a music icon that looks too much like iTunes... any microsoft related DRM fuled music on there? Not a chance.

*yawn*

I'll keep my iPhone, thank you very much.

The best though? I'm at the movies last night, and all of Samsung's new marketing material for their crappy new phone.. "Faster than the iPhone" and "Downloads faster than the iPhone."

You think Samsung actually PAYS a marketing person to come up with this crap?

mitruxx

Every time i see a vid of a skinned Win mo interface, it just reminds me how good the iphone OS actually is...

MrBlahBlah

fck! i'm disappointed

drum

@Chromeo:

It seems better than I expected but, it is definitely slow when compared to a certain similar device. The navigation app took almost 15 seconds to open, and the touch controls don't seem to be as responsive as some other touch screen devices. Although the UI was more intuitive than I expected, the overall look and feel of the interface is clunky.

justinpe

@thecman: Edward Sylushands will be thrilled.

@Chromeo: It looks like it just barely makes do with its low-flair UI. It would probably choke on something as smooth as iPhone or HTC Diamond.

@alexpr: As unpopular as cans of worms actually are, someone always wants to open them!

Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive

Absolutely amazing. I only managed to watch about half the video, but this appears to be a 100% attempt to rip off the iPhone interface, and yet somehow they've managed to make it look butt ugly. Just sad.

Given the shortcomings of the current iPhone (yes, it does have some), and the failure to really impress with the new iPhone, I'd actually consider moving to another platform, but whatever it is, this is far from it. iPhone 3g will probably get my next cellphone purchase dollars, but I'm not 100% committed to any one platform.

distortedloop

wow, another iphone wannabe.

alexpr

Perhaps it's just me...but the UI seems rather slow.

Chromeo

It looks painful to navigate windows mobile with a deformed thumb.

Or maybe it is optimized for that very input device, to match the UI.

thecman

The phone looks good. I think with a different background music the phone would've been more interesting.
They have a nice concept but they need a faster processor and a better graphics engine. So the touch flow could be swifter and easier to manuever.
I like how the screen changed when you moved the phone around also probably the best feature for me.

SneakerFiend

I really did yawn during it... and cry slightly.

Late_Night

I think that interface is still meant to be navigated with a stylus. The X button is too small and scrolling on the little bar on the right is the reason touchpad scrolling on laptops sucks.
The music really doesn't help tbh.

Sottren

That description of the music couldn't be more accurate.

However, we've learned a few things about the phone:
1 - give it a network connection if you're going to show the browser. A big red error message doesn't look very nice.

2 - add some content if you're going to show us the video/ pic/ music/ etc apps.

3 - don't rotate the phone upside down if the UI isn't going to resolve for it.

4 - apparently, the best thing about this phone is the 14 different ways you can enter text into the notes app.

Geisrud

@Der182: And it shows that Sean Fallon is a closet Lifetime Channel and Oh! fanboy. The sadness rises.

Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive

I'm underwhelmed, to say the least

blitzkrieg999

So who's gonna be the carrier? AT&T?

Dj75728

"but the music has that single mom reunited with her child Oxygen movie of the week vibe to it."

hahahah I love the writing of Gizmodo!

Der182

Meh. I like how the home screen seems to zoom out and the icons collect together. It seems familiar, and I like familiar.

That virtual keypad makes me sad. I would get a smartphone to get AWAY from having letters sharing one key.

Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive

I like how a few times he/she had to try multiple times to hit the button he/she was after.

As for the interface? UGLY!!!!!!

JEmlay

1. Worst. Background music. Ever.

2. You know it's like OS X because it has its very own spinning beachball.

cosmicrob

@DisposableInterloper: The YP-P2's interface is a lot nicer than this, and the best part, it doesn't have a glowing Bluetooth indicator light that a certain someone won't mistake for a home button! :P

Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive

If only Apple would let the iphone play divx/xvid without transcoding (as the omnia can do), then there'd be almost no reason to consider getting an omnia. It's got some nice features, but the load times are a big turn off.

Faxmonkey

Chalk me up as underwhelmed.

You'd think Samsung would at least design the device and the UI after their other phones, their MP3s, and their fancier printer models instead of half-assedly ripping off the iPhone.

I'd almost be willing to forgive that much if they did any innovating beneath the surface, but nope. It has no features that make me want to run out and buy it over the iPhone, it's running Windows Mobile 6.1, and it's not even apparently specced for Android.

DisposableInterloper

@kabron: The interface is strikingly similar in some areas, as in almost exactly the hell alike.

Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive

ok...nice phone...at turtle speeds but nice indeed. now please someone tell me this is not exclusive to att. god i hate those bastards. and can people stop comparing every gawddamn thing to the iphone. live with it! and stop whinning

kabron

ZZZZZzzzzzz............

maven2k

gosh that music was lame - sounded like a funeral... samsungs?

keyser

@alexpr: wow apple really bagged the touchscreen. now everytime I use my touchscreen computer monitor Im like "bah its just another iphone wannabee".

pevans34

That music is a mean joke! Damn. What's next? Doom 3 with David Foster's Flight of the Snowbirds playing in the background?

apeguero

You never know how good something is until you lose it. Except in this case. Watching this video made me so glad I have an iPhone and not any of these touchscreen POSs. Thank you God.

TheSonOfKrypton

How not to do a cellphone video review, by Bruce Spencer.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive:

Actually, the interface still looks like the post-Today screen interface on all Windows Mobile devices (which is quite a few years older than the iPhone interface). The scrolling menu is something new, but not something that's specific to the iPhone. To say it's an iPhone wannabe or ripoff is a pretty big stretch.

seizure

When it takes three attempts to close a window in the DEMO it's not a good interface. Sorry.

It doesn't look like there were any attempts to make it touch friendly, it's just Windows Mobile.

Navin R Johnson

So painful to see an Internet Explorer icon on a phone, it's such a bad browser on a computer, it must be awful. How many lines of extra CSS/JavaScript will one have to generate to get their site to look/function properly?

autobott