Comments on: Hands-on with the Samsung Omnia 2

By: fuzzylogue

fuzzylogue — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:35:44 +0000

To the fellow above, Jerry, who wonders why Samsung does not start off the bat with the Android OS in the ONNIA line of phones:

Jerry, what do you want? You want all phones to be just Android phones or Iphones. This is a WinMo phone. It is a phone for people that don’t want any limits with what they can do with their phones. WinMo phones are business and play phones all rolled into one. In my case, I want to be able to receive email and extract the “Word” or “PDF” attachements and store and organize them in folders. I also like to have the option of using Google’s cloud applications if I chose to do so.

I don’t just want to manipulate visual gunk or shuffle icons from one screen to the other all day long. I want to use my phone for work and for play. Android is turning out to be a very good phone OS, but it is not ther yet, my friend.

By: CrazyGirl:)

CrazyGirl:) — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:48:08 +0000

How much will Samsung omnia be? SG$ …
Please reply soon~
Thanks!

By: Robby A.

Robby A. — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:48:25 +0000

i read an articule on engadget.com that some one leaked a screen shot from a best buy computer, the pictures included in the articule, and it shows a launch date of 8/28/09. hope this helps sorry i didnt add link but a little searching and i can find it

By: Fred21

Fred21 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:05:37 +0000

The phone looks great, but how much will it cost me??

By: A921

A921 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:33:48 +0000

Any word on when Verizon will have the Omnia 2?

By: JD

JD — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:45:19 +0000

Omnia will never host Android as Samsung has reserved the “Omnia” line for Windows phones. Maybe other phones from Samsung will. People looking for Omnia look for a .Net platform continuity and extensibility, they also want to empower it with the vast variety of applications that third party developers create for Windows Mobile (which is huge)

By: T. N.

T. N. — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:38:37 +0000

I agree. This phone, based on its specs and fun features, looks like the first realistically legitimate contender to the Iphone 3GS. My only real gripe is that Samsung and LG still refuse to go with a capacitive touch screen. I own the Ipod Touch, and I love the touch responsiveness and feel.

Often times, it seems like the you have to really press and drag hard to get the resistive touch screens to work.

Aside from that, I can’t wait for this to release.

By: Jeff Micari

Jeff Micari — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:51:33 +0000

I like what i see, as stated above i would have like to seen android. But the screens shots from 6.5 look half way decent, hopefully it wont take to long for the full release. Any specifics on time frames my renewal comes up in a month

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:19:09 +0000

I also see the things that you see, but I also see a company that fails to listen at what their customers want. We want android. (And not, I’m not a fanboy, you just have to look at the android phones’ sales in europe specifically). I don’t get what these big companies reluctance to put android on their top-of-the-line phones is, but it clearly makes not sense to me. I mean even if they ddn’t want to “risk” bringing an (relatively, and arguiably) untested platform to the market, then what’s the sense in releasing these new phones with this new from-scratch OS? Why would they NOT take advantage of the FREE android OS already mostly made, that would require only slight modifications on their part to make it work. android has been available to consumers for more than a year now, and to phone makes for even longer, there’s no excuse for them NOT to include them. Does anyone know of any reason for this? Does this new samsung phone incorporate a me-too app store whose revenue they don’t want to sahre with google? Because otherwise this makes no sense.
Big phone companies are failing to see android as an opportunity and are instead treating it like some crazy fashion they include in one mediocre phone of their line to please their geek crowd.
There’s hope, tho. The newer companies entering the game (acer, dell, garmin/asus, huawei, teh chinese ones and even a french one) DO seem to get the opportunity and are taking advantage of the big companies failure to embrace the future with their (sometimes) cheaper phones and full of features. The rest of these year and the next one will be very eye opening to big phone companies who are used to another way of making business (I’m looking at you motorola, hire a CEO that actually uses email for god’s sake!). In this economical climate, I think the only company who can afford to resist change for a little longer is nokia. But even they will have to fold, by the end of next year I think.

By: John Smith

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:38:40 +0000

I see a phone that specwise is better than the iPhone 3Gs. I see a phone that judging by that picture contains every single useful app from Apple’s App store, minus the fart apps of course.