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[Simon Desser]

Being the sad git that I am, I've done a little comparison of the music volume from the Omnia compared to the Touch Diamond  
Same song, same volume - the Omnia is WAY quieter than the Diamond  

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[PaulOBrien]

I have the 16GB from eBay, applied update fine.

Battery life - too early to say, seems a reasonable target tho?

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[PaulOBrien]

Simon, indeed!

Apply that update tho and see if it makes a difference. It also includes a Radio ROM, so may improve your signal queries!

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[Simon Desser]

Paul (MVP), on Aug 12 2008, 23:04, said:

Simon, indeed!

Apply that update tho and see if it makes a difference. It also includes a Radio ROM, so may improve your signal queries!
ssed
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Cheers Paul, I'll do it first thing in the morning. Fingers crossed  

[encece]

Wow! Beautiful phone and that camera is killer!
You know me....I love side-by-side phone comparison pics (if you get a chance!)
Thanks.

[Simon Desser]

encece, on Aug 12 2008, 23:08, said:

Wow! Beautiful phone and that camera is killer!
You know me....I love side-by-side phone comparison pics (if you get a chance!)
Thanks.

Here's a quick comparison  
Apologies for the picture quality - taken with a Touch Dual!  

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[pdtp]

pdtp, on Aug 12 2008, 16:41, said:

ok so i see you said it had a flash, is that a real flash like the ones on blackberrys or are we talking some little light that doesn't do diddly like on the 8125 (HTC wizard)?

Woot 200th post

But what about my flash question?

[Simon Desser]

pdtp, on Aug 12 2008, 23:58, said:

But what about my flash question?

The flash is superb!!!! It lights up my whole bedroom!!!!  

[aksd]

Thanks for the answers Paul

Here are two files to try out http://www.glbenchma...ideos/glbhd.wmv and http://www.glbenchma...arkPro_High.wmv. But I suppose Divx should play better. If you do have any DVD rips can you try them out as well? Thanks.

I apologise, not the build quality of the screen, how the overall build quality , and are the images clearer on the screen when compared to a TYTn II. Also is the screen hard like the DIamond or soft like the TyTn II?



Regards,

Akshay

[hunyango_uk]

Paul (MVP), on Aug 12 2008, 16:58, said:

Here's 4 random pics I just snapped (default settings).

The camera application is supremely responsive

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cheers mate, the looks of it is very nice. very good quality probably amongst all windows mobile device. :-)

[chucky.egg]

Simon Desser, on Aug 12 2008, 21:15, said:

I've had one for a couple of days and there's lots to get excited about, but as usual, there's some little annoyances  
Games are virtually impossible to play with the optical joystick  
A few games I've tried won't run because of the odd screen resolution
You HAVE to lock the keypad as the buttons still work even when in standby  
If you turn off the option to turn on the backlight when a button is pressed you don't need to lock the keypad, but the screen permanently stays on the dimmest setting  
Signal strength isn't marvelous, and fluctuates a fair bit, often find it showing one or no bars where others show full strength, and even went straight to voicemail last night when showing full wack (I tend to put them to the test!)  
Volume when listening to music is a fair bit quieter than HTC devices, fine indoors but not sure about in the street or on Manchester trams  
GPS worked fine at first, but after a hard reset yesterday TomTom can't find a signal at all for some reason  
The device is pretty finger friendly but once you get down to the usual WM6 stuff you need a stylus, and unfortunately the stylus was obviously an afterthought, and so has no dedicated slot   You need to attach it to the lanyard hole which means it dangles all over the place and is rather annoying !!

Hopefully some of the bad points will get fixed, and in its favour, it's gorgeous, the camera's great, and the flash is very powerful!!

And is anyone still wondering why the iphone gets so much hype, and WM devices get ... well, none really (apart from sites like Modaco of course!)

TBH the Omnia was never the one for me anyway, but I'm begining to think I want an iphone - just for the simplicity and reliability. I want a device that just works, not one which works one day and not the next. Cramming all the features in doesn't make up for flaky hardware/software.

I'm going to wash my mouth out now.

[PaulOBrien]

Just been out on the bike listening to music on the latest build, plenty loud enough!

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[Simon Desser]

Paul, I've just flashed the new ROM after following your instructions about incorrect software version  
Probably being thick but I still can't find how to disable buttons when in stand by ?
I'll try out music volume later.
Cheers
Simon.

[PaulOBrien]

Start -> Settings -> Buttons -> Wake Up -> Power button only.



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[the-jackal]

Good work guys. I think this will be my next phone and its good to get real peoples opinions. I am a N95 classic user at the moment and I had the Touch Diamond for 7 days but did not get on with it.

Was thinking about the N96 but maybe not now. The iphone is also on my list but I am worried about the volume of it. What's the volume like compared to the iphone?

Cheers again

[Simon Desser]

Paul (MVP), on Aug 13 2008, 10:12, said:

Start -> Settings -> Buttons -> Wake Up -> Power button only.



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  Cheers Paul  

[PaulOBrien]

the-jackal, on Aug 13 2008, 10:15, said:

Good work guys. I think this will be my next phone and its good to get real peoples opinions. I am a N95 classic user at the moment and I had the Touch Diamond for 7 days but did not get on with it.

Was thinking about the N96 but maybe not now. The iphone is also on my list but I am worried about the volume of it. What's the volume like compared to the iphone?

Cheers again

What did you not get on with on the Diamond? They are pretty similar...

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[PaulOBrien]

chucky.egg, on Aug 13 2008, 09:28, said:

And is anyone still wondering why the iphone gets so much hype, and WM devices get ... well, none really (apart from sites like Modaco of course!)

TBH the Omnia was never the one for me anyway, but I'm begining to think I want an iphone - just for the simplicity and reliability. I want a device that just works, not one which works one day and not the next. Cramming all the features in doesn't make up for flaky hardware/software.

I'm going to wash my mouth out now.

When you look at the list tho, i'm not sure how many of those are actually issues...

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Games are virtually impossible to play with the optical joystick

True, no worse equipped than the iPhone in this regard tho. You need touchscreen optimised games...

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A few games I've tried won't run because of the odd screen resolution

Hard to blame the device if developers haven't developed resolution independence, but if you ARE a heavy gamer, this could be an issue. Pretty much all the apps i've used work fine tho thus far.

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You HAVE to lock the keypad as the buttons still work even when in standby

Not the case...

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If you turn off the option to turn on the backlight when a button is pressed you don't need to lock the keypad, but the screen permanently stays on the dimmest setting

Not the case...

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Signal strength isn't marvelous, and fluctuates a fair bit, often find it showing one or no bars where others show full strength, and even went straight to voicemail last night when showing full wack (I tend to put them to the test!)

Not had any straight-to-voicemail incidents, but I actually have with my diamond. Testing with the latest ROM, signal strength is FAR better than my diamond!

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Volume when listening to music is a fair bit quieter than HTC devices, fine indoors but not sure about in the street or on Manchester trams

Been testing this this morning, with the supplied headphones it's loud, when I plug in my ultimate ears I can tuyrn it up to 'unbearably loud'!!! Granted, the UEs are generally louder than most, but it's really not a problem. Simon, you found the volume wheel on the adaptor right?

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GPS worked fine at first, but after a hard reset yesterday TomTom can't find a signal at all for some reason

Great GPS reception here, and super fast fix too with the 'Enhanced GPS' option. Several hard resets later (and ROM flashes), no problem.

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The device is pretty finger friendly but once you get down to the usual WM6 stuff you need a stylus, and unfortunately the stylus was obviously an afterthought, and so has no dedicated slot!You need to attach it to the lanyard hole which means it dangles all over the place and is rather annoying !!

Yeah, this is plain dumb. Wonder where they got THAT styling cue from? It wouldn't be so bad if they had kinetic scrolling implemented everywhere (like on HTC devices), and put haptics across more of the device (crucially the text input panels!)

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Hopefully some of the bad points will get fixed, and in its favour, it's gorgeous, the camera's great, and the flash is very powerful!!

The Camera is AWESOME! Not just on good pic quality, but on the UI and responsiveness.

So far I really like it, not perfect, but pretty nice. A worthy Diamond challenger!

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[the-jackal]

Paul (MVP), on Aug 13 2008, 10:28, said:

What did you not get on with on the Diamond? They are pretty similar...

Lots of little things really. I probably would of got on with it if I had more than 7 days to get used to it to be honest. The i900 has always been an option but the HTC was available first so I just went for it. I found the screen a bit small for a touch phone and it just felt to tight, if that makes sense?

I think I have got so used to my N95 that I just want a phone I can set up to behave the same as that. What I mean is I want to be able to set it up so it rings a certain tones for groups as opposed to single people ring tones. Also I never got the group sms app to work and that proved to be a pain, as was forwarding texts.

Don't get me wrong as a bit of kit the diamond was great but it just didn't work for my style of use. I am thinking now though that maybe its time for me to change rather than try and change the phone.

Failing that if i don't get on with the i900 I will be getting the N96.

Edited by the-jackal, 13 August 2008 - 09:51 AM.

[PaulOBrien]

I imagine the same things that frustrated on the Diamond will do so on the i900 tbh...

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