Samsung omnia 7 what is in the box

We've been lucky to have four of the five WP7 launch phones in the office for concurrent reviews, and side by side there is no comparison. It also is the best display for reading outdoors where direct sunlight only partially impair visibility, unlike with older TFT LCDs.

If we find fault with any part of this phone's physical design, it's Samsung's use of touch-sensitive navigation buttons. Like all WP7 devices, the Omnia 7 has three dedicated nav-keys below its screen, a Back, Search and "Windows" home key, with all the buttons offering "clickable" mechanical input.

Touch buttons are problematic, often registering commands you don't mean to give, and in the case of a system like WP7, where multitasking is not truly present, this usually ends up with you exiting an app mid-task because you've accidentally launched a Bing web search.

Compared to smartphones outside of the WP7 family, the Omnia 7 stacks up very nicely. It supports the extended range of connectivity options we'd expect, with 7. Samsung has opted for a 5-megapixel image sensor in its camera on the Omnia 7, matching it with an LED flash. Unfortunately, Samsung has positioned this super-bright photo light directly above the lens and we've found it to be completely impractical in all low-light situations.

Even within throwing distance of about a metre, the flash still washed out our subjects, making everyone a ghostly, milky white. The 5 MP camera lens is located at the back of the device along with a single LED flash and the loudspeaker grill. The back panel has a brushed aluminum inset. At first you might be miffed as to how to remove the cover but once you realize the panel has more to it that the aluminum plate you'll be just fine.

The entire back piece is a battery cover and there's a small groove at the bottom left to put a finger a pry it open. On the back of the Samsung Omnia W. Removing the back panel reveals the mAh Li-Ion battery, which is quoted at h of stand-by and 7h of talk time. The Omnia W does well enough in real life too. We could usually count on two straight days with the habitual serving of browsing over Wi-Fi, a couple of hours of video playback and the usual amount of stills and videos.

AMOLED is a power-efficient screen technology and the single core architecture isn't a battery drainer either. Removing the back panel. The Samsung Omnia W is a nice phone to handle and we appreciate its understated elegance. It falls in the right niche, size-wise, to be a crowd pleaser.

The 3. The Samsung Omnia W held in hand. In terms of design, the Omnia W does well to distance itself from the countless carbon copy Droids that Samsung have in the midrange. This service promises to improve the call quality that you experience when using the handset on Orange to Orange calls; the best performance offered when calling another HD Voice enabled handset. Obviously, you need to know someone with such a device and presently there are few out there.

Around the back of the Omnia 7 is a 5-megapixel autofocus camera. On the Omnia it is supported by an LED flash and also offers p video capture. Video gets some of the same scene offerings - the negative will give you some interesting results. Focusing is fixed in video, so you never really get good results: at the macro distance everything is out of focus, in the distance everything is a little soft - you are left with a band across the middle distance where results are acceptable.

In terms of battery life, we managed to get more than a day from the handset with average use. When it does come to making those calls, the hard top edge of the Samsung Omnia 7 does make it a little uncomfortable, but it isn't a significant issue. The Samsung Omnia is a great Windows Phones 7 handset overall. It might not have the best camera options, but the screen is absolutely to die for.

We found that Windows Phone 7 ran slick and fast on the device, with barely a hiccup as you move around the extra-wide displays. The on-screen keyboard is an excellent size, so we had no problems bashing out Word documents with the keyboard in landscape, to then email to colleagues. Of course it is early days for Windows Phone 7, and we expect the app space to take off now that the devices have all officially gone to market.

One cable less to loose. And also it is a bit thinner, and seems a little bit lighter. Probably it already well know, but seeing it in person was really shocking: the Super AMOLED is really super precise and the text, even the small one, is very clear.