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Samsung Omnia is the latest in the category of the Samsung phones for U.S. market, and it is the most advanced, because the TouchWIZ interface runs a Windows Mobile 6.1, which is much better than a standard OS. Trying to improve Windows Mobile was quite insuccessful, because instead of making all the things easier, we can observe that Samsung Omnia is rather complicated and confusing than user friendly.
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DivX movie player and the Web browsing features are pretty cool on Samsung Omnia, next to Wi-Fi and GPS, but the 5 Mp camera brings in front the robust multimedia features of Samsung Omnia.

The Windows Mobile smartphone also offers Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, and EV-DO Rev. A support, as well as a 5-megapixel camera and robust multimedia features. I think that the top interesting aspects in Samsung Omnia's design are the TouchWiz interface and the touch screen, but the 3.2 inch screen is pretty cool too: it has 240x400 pixels resolution and it has 262,000 color output. So, overall, the display is quite eye-catching. It is quite good for displaying images, texts and videos, though it's not as sharp as HTC Diamond's display is.

Samsung Omnia has a virtual keyboard and it has also an accelerometer, which switches the view from portrait to landscape, according to the way you hold your phone,and the access to all features is done through the panel on the left, which contains all the applications, like music player, notepad, clock, and media gallery. It can be customized, and after you set it up, you can make it visible and hide it by tapping on the arrow. It has the Home screen, but is also offers users the Main Menu page where all the basic applications are stored in an user friendly manner.So if you are not quite satisfied with TouchWiz, you can switch to the Windows screen from the Settings menu.

Samsung Omnia has interesting features, and I would like to mention only a few, the most useful and attractive ones: visual voice mail, each contact in the address book can have multiple fields, and the CDMA includes conference calling, voice dialing, text and multimedia messaging and other features. Bluetooth, 3G and Wi-Fi are successfully integrated in the connectivity section, and you can use also GPS/A-GPS for navigation, but it will cost you $9.99 per month, or $2,99 per day (from Verizon).

I think that the camera is very good: the pictures' quality was excellent and the antishake feature is quite useful, the colors look good, and the video quality is better than many other Samsung phones, with slightly pixelation. There are TV capabilities too, and you can edit the videos too with a editing application.

The call service performance is good, sometimes appeared complaints from users that the volume needs to be turned up and maybe some of them reported a slight echo, or a small lag when launching applications, but Windows Mobile functioned very good in stress conditions. Samsung Omnia can has a life battery of 19 days on standby time, and 8 hours passed until the battery drained after continous talking. According to more tests, Samsung Omnia has a digital SAR rating of 1.31 W/KG.

Overall, I think that Samsung Omnia is a great smartphone, and that the Windows Mobile is good organized on this phone, and the functionality and the performances make Samsung Omnia a real competitor for the incumbent iPhone.

Mobile phones have rechargeable batteries to provide them the power they need for functioning.  A rechargeable battery is a group of one or more secondary cells, just like laptops have more batteries, but they are often called "battery", in singular form. This kind batteries can be restored to full or partial charge by the application of electrical energy, through a device, like a charger.Rechargeable batteries have a higher initial acquisition cost, but the main advantage is that they can be used more than once, like normal batteries.
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Rechargeable batteries come in many varieties, but the most well known types are Nickel Cadmium Battery (NiCd), Nickel-Metal Hydride Battery (NiMH),  Lithium-ion Battery. In 2007, professor Yi Cui and his colleagues from Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University's developed the classical system of the batteries and concluded that using silicon nanowires gave rechargeable Li-Ion batteries 10 times more charge than normal wiring.

Samsung's researchers developed a water based battery and the company hopes to bring it on the market in 2010. This is a very important step in mobile phone industry because it brings into attention and in normal usage, an innovative method for supplying power to mobile phones. This Samsung battery converts water into Hydrogen and Oxygen gas, and the Hydrogen reacts with the metal inside the battery when the phone is switched on, and this mix provides the power needed for the mobile phone to function properly. This Samsung battery can generate up to three watts of power electricity, and the battery can last up to 10 hours, twice as long as rechargeable batteries. If it is used four hours a day, the Hydrogen cartridge must be changed every five days,and this is an expensive solution for mobile phones, but Samsung hopes to improve the system and their goal is to improve the battery, and it might require only filling it with water.

Some researchers don't agree the new idea of water based battery because they say that in the chemical reaction produced inside the battery, there is a highly flammable gas emission and that might produce damages to users. But the main advantage of this samsung battery is that it comes on the market as a "green" solution, not affecting the environment as the normal rechargeable batteries do. Many companies in mobile phone industry, as in many other fields are looking for cheaper, and more environment-friendly solutions.

This innovation has been presented at Korea Electronics Show in 2007, and we are faster and faster getting closer to 2010. We will see in the next year first mobile phones which have water based batteries. The only way to evaluate their batteries' efficiency is to buy and try the phones with this kind of batteries, and then review the revolutionary system. It would be interesting to see if it is a successful solution and if Samsung battery can be extended to other industries too. Applying this innovation to mobile phones would be the first step in a revolution, because water based batteries would be a great alternative to the conventional fuels.

A day or two ago, I told you about a new Samsung cell phone, the latest to be added to AT&T’s range of products. It was the Samsung A887 Solstice, a mid-end device with touch sensitive capabilities that was said to start selling on August 2nd.

Now, AT&T and Samsung Mobile decided to officially announce the handset, which is presented as “a compact and fun touch screen phone”. In addition, the Solstice will give user the chance to have easy access and connection to their favorite social networking sites and to messaging features, on one hand, and multimedia features, on the other hand.

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The new Samsung Solstice is based on the popular WouchWiz user interface and comes with the following list of features: quad band GSM and dual band HSDPA connectivity, a 3 inch touch sensitive display, a 2 megapixel camera, accelerometer, brand new widgets for websites like Facebook, MySpace and Yahoo! OneSearch, Bluetooth connectivity, music player, video player and a microSDHC card slot for expandable memory of no more than 16GB.

It seems the guys over Boys Genius Report were right. The handset will be sold by A&T for a price of $99.99, after a $50 mail-in rebate. All the customer has to do is to sign a contract agreement for a period of 2 years.

So, keep in mind the fact that the Samsung A887 Solstice, a touch sensitive phone, will start selling in a couple of days and I think it’s worth the bother.

(Source: Samsung)

Oh, I don’t know about you, but I’ll soon become sick and tired with this amount of Samsung cell phones that are being announced/unveiled/revealed/released. They seem to be everywhere, from the cheapest models to the expensive ones, which are part of the family of smartphones.

And AT&T, the popular American provider, hadn’t had enough with the Samsung handsets the company has brought in the spotlight, so the newest device to become part of AT&T’s range of products is the A887, which is also known under the name of Solstice.

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I am very confused with the names of these cell phones, because when they first appear, we are told to name them “x”, but when they become official, we’re being asked to call them “y”. So, the Solstice shared the same fate, because the name it had made its debut with was Samsung Infinity.

Anyway, the point is Samsung Solstice will become available to the public starting next month. The release date is said to be August 2nd.

Being a mid-end touch sensitive device, the Solstice comes with features like a 2 megapixel camera, assisted GPS, stereo Bluetooth, email and IM, Video Share. As for the price, according to BGR, the handset will be sold for no more than $99.99. It seems that AT&T will give its customers a $50 mail-in rebate, but the condition is the signing of a contract agreement for a period of two years.

(Source: UnwiredView)

When the first rumors about the Samsung S9110 appeared, they were also with reference to the price of the handset, which was expected to be a very high one, due to the fact that the device is actually a touch sensitive watchphone with high-end features.

As it’s far from being a regular phone, the Samsung S9110 reminds us, somehow, of another similar watchphone that managed to create sensation at the beginning of this year, the LG GD910.

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The list of features includes a 1.76 inches touch sensitive display which is resistant to scratches, email, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP connectivity, voice recognition and music player. As you can see for yourselves, the body of the watchphone is made of stainless steel and the wrist best of leather.



The new Samsung S9110 measures no more than 11.98 millimeters in thickness and it seems to be the thinnest watchphone that is available right now in the market, all over the world. It might be so, even if we don’t know how thick the GD910 is, to make a comparison.



Rumors say that the French customers will be the first to enjoy the new Samsung watchphone and it’s expected to start selling sometime during this month. The retail price is said to be somewhere around €450, which means no more than $640.

(Source: UnwiredView)