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New Samsung i8910 HD ( ex Omnia HD) |
Yakkaimono
Joined: Mar 19, 2008
Posts: 425
From: Germany/ Bangladesh
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Would be nice if you'd keep us updated about this phone.
How do you feel about the size of the i8910?
And how is the ui so far?
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skblakee
Joined: May 07, 2007
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From: St.Kitts, West Indies
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Well Floatlite you might be the unofficial reviewer here.
How does she handle? Any bugs so far? Is she feeling flimsy as in the feel of the body?
 Galaxy Note III with 64gb micro SD Visit St.Kitts in the Caribbean. Beautiful little place. iPad Air 16GB |
floatlite
Joined: Jan 23, 2002
Posts: 486
From: Glasgow
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On 2009-05-17 01:22:50, Yakkaimono wrote:
Would be nice if you'd keep us updated about this phone.
How do you feel about the size of the i8910?
And how is the ui so far?
Thanks!
So far so good, the Symbian S60 FP5 is fast (in fact VERY fast), the 256mb RAM will help that along, getting about 160mb free after fully booted, pretty normal as far as Symbian UI goes, very Nokia 5800 like, but faster and the screen is much more responsive (as it should be).
Size is good, narrow enough to be help comfortably in the hand, and slightly longer than normal, but plenty of screen real estate, and great for web browsing, almost on a par with the iPhone in this area. The wide screen qwerty keyboard is well laid out, and the keys are nicely spaced for fast typing.
On 2009-05-17 01:22:50, skblakee wrote:
Well Floatlite you might be the unofficial reviewer here.
How does she handle? Any bugs so far? Is she feeling flimsy as in the feel of the body?
Not really found any bugs to be honest, although, i'm sure one will pop out sometime, the more I use it.
The body is well made, and no creaks or groans (so far), the battery cover is tight and creak free. The buttons are solid feeling and positive click, and it's nice to have a touch screen lock seperate from the full button and screen lock button.
So far so good, did I say the screen is pin sharp, very impressive.
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recl
Joined: Nov 25, 2007
Posts: 251
From: Romania
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how's the audio? are the speakers loud enough? how about the headset? |
rbg777
Joined: Dec 01, 2008
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Floatlife, just how bad is the crappy AMR codec when recording in HD? |
Radu_91
Joined: Sep 14, 2008
Posts: 201
From: Romania
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floatlite does the Omnia HD have an Fm transmitter and another question can u put your own shorcuts in the widget bar or what's it called
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recl
Joined: Nov 25, 2007
Posts: 251
From: Romania
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i think you can choose your own shortcuts. it's called touchwiz |
floatlite
Joined: Jan 23, 2002
Posts: 486
From: Glasgow
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On 2009-05-17 12:46:18, recl wrote:
how's the audio? are the speakers loud enough? how about the headset?
Audio seems to up to standard, not the loudest ever, but certainly not quiet, speakers are usable, not exactly blow yer socks off, but in a quiet to medium background noise environment they are fine.
On 2009-05-17 13:39:36, rbg777 wrote:
Floatlife, just how bad is the crappy AMR codec when recording in HD?
it's, well, I certainly would be careful with the use of the term High Definition, although it's many times better than most camera phones video. |
Yakkaimono
Joined: Mar 19, 2008
Posts: 425
From: Germany/ Bangladesh
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Sounds good so far.
I should be getting mine at the end of the month. Can't wait.
Can you say anything about the widgets floatlite? Are they of any use? |
floatlite
Joined: Jan 23, 2002
Posts: 486
From: Glasgow
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On 2009-05-17 18:41:02, Yakkaimono wrote:
Sounds good so far.
I should be getting mine at the end of the month. Can't wait.
Can you say anything about the widgets floatlite? Are they of any use?
Yeah the widgets are quite cool, you can totally customise them, you can select the number you want to show, from none to all of them, you can turn the feature on or off, and then you can obviously drag and drop the ones you require onto the 'desktop'
Interesting addition to Symbian S60 |
Yakkaimono
Joined: Mar 19, 2008
Posts: 425
From: Germany/ Bangladesh
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I have two more questions if you don't mind.
How is the sound quality during calls?
Some reviewer report that it is fine and others say it is bad. So it would be nice to hear your opinion on this.
And did you check the sound quality during video recording? Everyone says that it is really awful.
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floatlite
Joined: Jan 23, 2002
Posts: 486
From: Glasgow
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On 2009-05-17 22:04:50, Yakkaimono wrote:
I have two more questions if you don't mind.
How is the sound quality during calls?
Some reviewer report that it is fine and others say it is bad. So it would be nice to hear your opinion on this.
And did you check the sound quality during video recording? Everyone says that it is really awful.
Thanks!
Sound quality during call is fine, not awesome, but as good as 99% out there (i've tried alot!)
Sound during video is ok, as long as you do not have the volumes all set to the max.
It does tend to pic up a bit of 'near' noise interference, but i find it acceptable, to be honest I would use it for a back up, or on the spot video, I use a Sony HD camcorder for more serious video work. |
Supa_Fly
Joined: Apr 16, 2002
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From: Toronto, Ontario
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@rbg777, who said its using AMR codec for audio in video recording? I don't know of any phone that uses that since the K750i or earlier.
I believe its using AAC but in very low bitrate. Lets hope Samsung updates this and thus the quality of Video recording will be better.
@David,
could you please revisit the quality question on audio when video recording please? Test both low video quality's Audio, vs medium and high 720p video recording's Audio quality? Thanks.
All die hard SE fans should be more interactive with David's review of the Samsung HD since the hardware platform is VERY VERY similar to what SE will be using in the Idou.
Symbian Foundation has made the TI OMAP3 platform the baseline of all future Symbian^2 or higher OS based devices ... which means some seriously fast performance with the codec already supporting SMP which no other smartphone OS does natively, not even the bullshit quoted "iPhone OS is the best mobile OS in the world" or Linux of any form or branch thereof.
SMP, and the ability to use TI Omap ARM cpu's is something Nokia had pushed for in the days of the N95. Many SE fans don't see this kind of innovation but will when Idou launches. |
rbg777
Joined: Dec 01, 2008
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@Prom1
yep, Samsung has decided to go with 2003 sound recording technology unbelievably. Its definately the AMR codec. |
dainesefreak
Joined: Jun 14, 2007
Posts: 77
From: UK
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Mine should be delivered on Wednesday, could have been tomorrow but I'd have got woman grief. 
Couldn't bring myself to go onto an 18 month contract so it cost me £215 on Dolphin 35 for 12 months. I'll sell my 16gb Omnia to soften the blow. |
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Posted: 2009-05-17 01:22
Galaxy Note III with 64gb micro SD 
