Review Samsung I8000 Omnia II

Product Omnia Samsung I8000 series II has been officially released in February 2010 in Indonesia month ago. With a high specification this product is certain to become one of the major choices loyal users of Windows Mobile.

Key Features Omnia Samsung I8000
series II =
• 3.7-inch 65K-color AMOLED resistive touchscreen, 480 x 800 pixels
• Windows Mobile 6.5 with TouchWiz UI features of the Media 2.0 & the 3D Gate
• Samsung S3C6410 800MHz processor; Graphics HW Accelerator
• 256MB of RAM
• 5 megapixel auto focus camera with LED flash geotagging, face detection, Smile Shot, image stabilizer, wide Dynamic Range (WDR)
• D1 @ 30fps video recording, slow-mo QVGA video recording
• Tri-band 3G HSDPA (7.2Mbps) and HSUPA (5.76 Mbps) support
• Quad-band GSM support
• Smart dialing
• Wi-Fi with DLNA technology
• Built-in GPS with A-GPS function
• internal memory 2/8/16GB
• microSD card slot up to 32GB maximum
• FM radio with RDS
• Bluetooth & USB Connection v2.0
• 3.5mm standard audio jack
• TV-out feature
• DNSe SRS audio technology & sound effects
• DivX / XviD video playback
• Proximity sensor for auto turn-off screen display and ambient light sensors
• Accelerometer sensor for automatic UI rotation, the turn-to-mute and motion-based gaming
• Office document editor
• Full Flash support in web browsers

800MHz processor make it a smartphone with one of the fastest processors are available on the market today. Coupled with an internal memory of 16 GB (size may vary according to region, eg Asia, Europe, etc.) and external memory that can be added up to a capacity of 32 GB, providing users with more than enough places to store various data and information .

Dimensions of this smartphone are: 118 x 59.6 x 11.9 mm and weigh 117th grams. Size dimensions are quite large, but touchscreennya take up almost the entire surface with leaving little for the main button and the top of the list. In terms of overall design, this smartphone can instantly recognize as output of Samsung products. This may be due to product designs Samsung's mobile phone output lately is using a model that is somewhat similar to one another.

This smartphone has a touch screen touch screen is sensitive and who can interact with both the touch, because displaynya using the latest technology, namely the Advanced Resistive Samsung. This makes the Omnia Samsung I8000 Series II can detect a touch of the stylus, pencil, nails, hands that use gloves, etc. so that the scrolling, typing / writing, and to zoom in / out to be very easy.

Omnia Series II has several advantages over its predecessor and one of the most obvious is the screen 3.7 "WVGA AMOLED display it. For those who do not understand the term, means a resolution 480x800 pixels WVGA AMOLED stands while Active Matrix Organic LED.

Although the display screen looks good, but unfortunately the number of color who are at the limit disupportnya only 65 thousand colors. This causes the appearance of complex gradient of color who somewhat problematic, making it sometimes feels less than perfect appearance.

To complement of buttons features of this smartphone, it can be easily accessed either by using one hand or two hands. The most interesting thing is the availability of the cube-shaped hexagon in the middle of the main keys is called by the name of Samsung's 3D Media Gate.

 Using this button the user can quickly access the six main features in smart phones, namely = main menu, camera, photo albums, music player, video player and games or web browsers. This six-square cube has soft and smooth movements making it easy to use.

Sections cover behind it looks simple with black and there is a camera lens, flash and loudspeaker.

Samsung i8000 Omnia II camera can take photos with a maximum resolution of 2560x1920 pixels (5 megapixel) with various options that can be configured. Results pictures of himself quite well compared with the results of a standard mobile phone photo yg available on the market.
If the back cover is opened it will be found where the laying of its battery 1440 mAh, the SIM card slot and a slot for microSD cards.

 Pros:
• Touchscreen easy to use;
• View interesting;
• wide screen who makes it convenient to use as a GPS Navigator;
• Search option on the file manager is very helpful finding a file;
• FM radio with RDS support it has features and auto scans, so that when listening to the radio on the go / travel then this device can either autoswitch to the frequency of the radio stations in the area.

Disadvantages:
• No xenon flash;
• No cover for camera lens so the lens is easy terbaret if not careful in usage;
• View displays sometimes has trouble displaying the color gradient;
• have a microSD slot behind the back cover, so to access it should open the cover first;
• The browser sometimes has problems with Flash support.

Conclusion

If the smartphone is already in a certain price is stable, then the other smartphone might be hard to beat it in terms of appearance and performance / performance. For now the price offered was in the range of 5 million RP's.