Kid_Eternity
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Sweeeeeet! Have you ever tried calling via it?
samsung omnia?
- Thread starter lunatrick
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Sweeeeeet! Have you ever tried calling via it?
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hiraethified
No. Apparently it can work but I've never tried it. I was well chuffed to get the Skype chat client on my phone because I use that a lot for business.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Sounds like it suits what you do with it, but most of my (rather average) photography is landscapes and the like.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Eh? Did you read the wired link on my post. It's hardly a personal take on things.
The iphone camera's fine for what it's intended for - a simple point and click thing which takes a quick photo, largely to be displayed on small screens like its own. Maybe they could boost the MP, but it's still never going to be a great camera - it's designed predominantly as a player of content rather than recorder. Why complicate the UI and design to try and make it a largely unsatisfactory jack of all trades?
I've got one of the best cameraphones in theory (a Sony Ericsson C902) - it's not bad all told, with a natty sliding action and decent flash. But it's still not half as good as a cheap digital camera -it's a slimline phone after all - with fiddly little buttons make it tricky to use, and that's despite the specialised menus and touch screen keys.
Video recording ain't great either. But until the technology progresses so that the footage wouldn't be brutally exposed using, say imovie, to edit on larger screens, I don't reckon Apple will be interested in really pushing video that hard. They'll unlock the functionality eventually, probably grudgingly in the meantime.
They're gambling against your assertion that the 'lack of video recording is an obvious and rather annoying omission for most consumers.' Impossible to tell so far I guess, but iphone sales and user satisfaction ratings are holding up well.
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hiraethified
That article is 15 months old, a generation out of date and just one bloke's idle speculation.
Oh come on - that's a piss weak argument! How 'complicated' would it have to be to include a video icon next to the camera one?
Smartphones - by their very definition - are designed to be 'jack of all trades' - that's why the iPhone has a stab at sending texts, taking picures, playing video, playing music, sending email, surfing the web, running games, running apps etc etc etc.
Why you just can't say, "Yes, I guess it would be nice to have a video recording function on the iPhone" rather than keep cooking up these truly lame excuses.
It's not like the iPhone doesn't excel at other functions, so it beats me why you have to keep making excuses for its shortcomings.
I'd like my Palm Centro to have Wi-Fi. And 3G. A slightly bigger screen would be nice too. See? You can still like something and accept it has some flaws.
I've been playing.
Omnia bads: Seems to be a bug in the address book on the Omnia, it crashes if you try to jump to people beginning with X or Y or Z.
The pdf reader is pants. And apparently Adobe don't make an up to date reader for windows mobile.
It's touted as being good at divx but I'll be buggered if I can get it to work.
Omnis good: I've discovered it has handwriting and letter recognition that works quite well using fingernail to write. I shall keep experimenting to see if this is faster than the keypad. The camera is good, you can make pictures sepia which is a sort of like time travel.
Browser Zooming. Not quite figured out the zooming. You can zoom in and out using two hardware buttons on the side. This is pants as although it zooms, it just zooms a snapshot of the page so none of the website can be interacted with. Alternatively, sometime if you double tap the screen it zooms in properly. This is good. Alternatively sometimes if you slide you finger down the right hand side of the screen it brings up a slider image with which you can dynamically zoom to any size you want. Don't know why the zoom doesn't work all the time, maybe due to the webpages, or the browser, or me not really knowing how to do it.
Also, the mouse deal. You can either have a real mouse cursor (which is too fiddly for my liking) or one of them things where you swipe a pad to move between selections on the screen. This is quite handy if you buried in a windows setting menu which has pretty small text.
Omnia bads: Seems to be a bug in the address book on the Omnia, it crashes if you try to jump to people beginning with X or Y or Z.
The pdf reader is pants. And apparently Adobe don't make an up to date reader for windows mobile.
It's touted as being good at divx but I'll be buggered if I can get it to work.
Omnis good: I've discovered it has handwriting and letter recognition that works quite well using fingernail to write. I shall keep experimenting to see if this is faster than the keypad. The camera is good, you can make pictures sepia which is a sort of like time travel.
Browser Zooming. Not quite figured out the zooming. You can zoom in and out using two hardware buttons on the side. This is pants as although it zooms, it just zooms a snapshot of the page so none of the website can be interacted with. Alternatively, sometime if you double tap the screen it zooms in properly. This is good. Alternatively sometimes if you slide you finger down the right hand side of the screen it brings up a slider image with which you can dynamically zoom to any size you want. Don't know why the zoom doesn't work all the time, maybe due to the webpages, or the browser, or me not really knowing how to do it.
Also, the mouse deal. You can either have a real mouse cursor (which is too fiddly for my liking) or one of them things where you swipe a pad to move between selections on the screen. This is quite handy if you buried in a windows setting menu which has pretty small text.
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hiraethified
Not sure how good the Windows version is, but Documents To Go is pretty good for reading PDFs.
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Win win win win win. I love my Omnia, and the screen can be easily wiped clean. I've worked out the whole internet thingy, you can easily change the display to either show the mobile phone version or the 'actual' version, both are easy to navigate.
Omnia bad: The touch screen sometimes needs a bit of jabbin' to get it to respond, seems to be website specific for this. Battery life: Last about a day and a half with my usage of on all the time, 10 mins ish talk, 10 or so texts and emails, 30 mins web surfing, the odd photo.
Omnia good. I've just discovered that I can use the phone as a broadband modem. Now this might not seem the most amazing thing but considering it takes me several hours to hook up a wireless network whenever I move flat, with this phone, i did the complex task of plugging it into my computer, and it worked, straight off, no secret settings to adjust, nothing. I'm using it now, to send this. And this.
Omnia bad: The touch screen sometimes needs a bit of jabbin' to get it to respond, seems to be website specific for this. Battery life: Last about a day and a half with my usage of on all the time, 10 mins ish talk, 10 or so texts and emails, 30 mins web surfing, the odd photo.
Omnia good. I've just discovered that I can use the phone as a broadband modem. Now this might not seem the most amazing thing but considering it takes me several hours to hook up a wireless network whenever I move flat, with this phone, i did the complex task of plugging it into my computer, and it worked, straight off, no secret settings to adjust, nothing. I'm using it now, to send this. And this.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
The N95 records video at 1024x768 I believe... it fills a 1440x900 at a decent res.
on the brink of purchasing this, ticks all the right boxes for me :
internet,
mp3,
gps,
oh yeah calls and texts....
anybody got one or opinion on one?
I say get it.
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