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In Latin, "Omnia" means "everything" and in Arabic it means "Wish". Apparently, Samsung's marketers kept their promise to their customers. Samsung i900 Omnia is a cell phone with an exceptional mixture of features designed to fully satisfy the needs of the modern cell phone user. Submitting to design direction and obeying the industry forces imposed largely by iPhone, the Omnia is a full touch-screen cell phone that does everything in its power to overcome Windows Mobile's limitations and standing out as one of the best smartphones to date.

Moving right to the top of the best seller charts at launch, Samsung i900 Omnia is a Windows Mobile 6.1 platform phone with a large touch display of 3.2 inch WQVGA, which makes it equivalent to Apple's iPhone. However, the Omnia's resolution of 240x400 leaves Samsung behind the leaders, but on the other hand, the screen definitely offers good image quality. In regards to sensitivity feature, the Omnia is carefully designed so as every touch is accompanied by a gentle vibration, even if the user has not activated any relevant function. Moreover, the phone is extremely fashionable being one of the most attractive Windows Mobile devices.

Knowing how much technology is inside the Omnia, the most amazing feature is how light this handset is. Weighing only 122 grams including the battery and having a 12.5mm thickness, the Omnia is a really light cell phone. In line with this design, the 5-megapixel camera module and flash on the back of the Omnia glows with the battery cover, as do all soft-keys on the front and around the sides of the handset.

Being a handset that cries out high tech advancements, the Omnia offers a smooth and effortless touch screen interaction. In fact, this might be the first Windows Mobile PocketPC that shifts technology to another dimension integrating a multimedia entertainment device on which the user may watch an entire film on perfect quality, using part of the handset's gigantic 16GB memory. Although designed mostly for business, the Omnia comes with 16GB of internal storage and microSD card slot, which allows the user to store a huge number of video formats and large playlists of music, while it supports a wide range of audio and video codecs such as DivX, XviD, WMV, MPEG4, MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA and OGG.

On the front of the phone there are two large hardware buttons (Send/End keys), hard to use, and an "optical" mouse. When the virtual cursor is inactive, the mouse functions as a D-pad and the user has to

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