Samsung Omnia Isn’t Going to Kill iAnything

I have been using one “upgraded from the HTC TyTNII” and I love it too. There is a ROM update and I am doing that tomorrow so this is before the update and I find very little to complain about. In fact it is faster than the once “king” the HTC Titan.

This is a very negative review from someone who is not actually using one so I think it should be taken with much reservation.

BTW, I have had much less resets with this usint than the Titan and my 16GB space is filled up to 70% already with close to 30 3rd party programs.

(Please use this update to my comment, instead of the original. Thanks.)

I’ve had my Omnia for three weeks now. I hate it. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it.

Samsung’s Omnia is mind numbingly user unfriendly. For example, I have just spent the last 30 minutes trying to figure out where they have hidden the controls for the side bar allowing me to remove or add widgets. (I can use the widgets already there, no problem.) I know I stumbled upon them once, but I’ll be damned if I can find them again.

Of course, a little trip to the “Help” function should solve my problem in a jiffy, right? No way. There is a grand total of two — two! — entries under Help. But that’s OK. I’ll just look it up in the pdf User Manual that I downloaded from Samsung’s site. Get ready for this: The words “sidebar” and “widget” do not appear in the manual!



That would be OK if at least, at the very least, the Omnia worked as a PHONE. Uh uh. Try using it to make a phone call to an automated system in which you have to choose options based on tapping a number on the keypad. In their infinite wisdom, Samsung has decided to have the keypad automatically freeze — and disappear!!! – some seconds after the call begins.

That means that by the time you go to punch in the number 5 (say, for customer service) the window is frozen. You have to (1) press the action key to unlock the window, (2) tap another button to bring back the keypad, and then (3) hit the number. By that time, you’re getting a message that says, “We have not received your input. Goodbye.”

It’s even worse for another automated service that requires that I enter a number within a three-second window on cue. Because I cannot hold the phone to my ear to receive the cue while also looking at the screen, I have to (4) turn on the speakerphone before going through steps 1 to 3 above. Of course, it is impossible to turn on the speakerphone before the call is engaged, meaning that those 4 steps have to be done to precision within a short time frame.

I have learned how to do all this, not because the phone’s beautiful logic has finally been revealed, but because I have become a potential gold-medal winner in the yet-to-be-admitted Olympic event of Samsung Omnia Gymnastics.



Another pain in the finger: there is no direct link to the phonebook from the ‘call’ page. You have to either close the window using that “X” that is displayed entirely into the far upper right hand corner, as far away as possible from any other button you’re likely to be working with, and hope that the page before was one with a phonebook button. Otherwise there will be more buttons to press. Wouldn’t “phonebook” be an obvious option under the call page “Menu”? Not obvious to whoever designed this gizmo.

As icing on the keypad, when I tap the icon for the camera, supposedly a hot feature on this toy, I get an error message that says, “Not enough video memory.” No, the camera is not set to video. Know how I manage to use the camera? Only by turning the phone off at the source and rebooting.

 And then, once I get into the camera, guess what? I can take videos too! So what’s this about not enough memory?!

Did I mention that I absolutely hate this phone?


Fang, are you sure that your not just really stupid? Hardly the phones fault mate

Fang, you seriously need to sit down and read your manual!! There is a phonebook icon on the calls screen keypad & if you tap it your phone book opens! wow! Also I just tried to dial a number and then open the keypad for automated service & had it open and ready before the number had even connected with a ring tone. I think Quazimoto if right. You should pack up your phone & sell it to someone a little more clever than yourself & just stick to pay-phones, or perhaps a couple of milo tins & a piece of string.
This phone is great I agree that the reviewer has a chip on his shoulder. A phone with so many features will take a little more than 45 minutes to work out how to use it properly. You sound like someone who wants it all, and wants it now – all you need is patience… yeah… just a little patience.

mate, i reckon your sleeping with apple or something, your just a git. You think its got a tiny screen? what do u want a 42 inch screen in your pocket? Apple is useless, the only thing they are good at is marketing retarded products to retarded people.

WORST REVIEW I”VE EVER SEEN These are great phones far better for calling than the HTC I’ve just replaced it with. Three of us at my work now have these and with SPB shell on them they’re the best