Guest c0n3 Posted September 11, 2009 Report Posted September 11, 2009 (edited) I just received 2x Omnia Pro B7610, called omnia qwerty in the Netherlands today from the Vodafone shop. My first impression overall is quite positive although the device is a little thicker than I expected, but that's ofcourse caused by the qwerty keyboard. The phone is responding quite fast, but sometimes seems to hang for some time, and can be controlled really well with the new touchwiz interface. I expect the speed will further improve with upcoming firmware updates. The keyboard i.m.o. is excellent developed, it is stable and responding really accurate. Running windows mobile 6.1, update to WM6.5 promised to be available within a couple of weeks Firmware version of my Dutch Language Vodafone phone: PDA B7610BUIH1 / Phone B7610BUIH1 Edited September 11, 2009 by c0n3
Guest spaanplaat Posted September 28, 2009 Report Posted September 28, 2009 I just received 2x Omnia Pro B7610, called omnia qwerty in the Netherlands today from the Vodafone shop. My first impression overall is quite positive although the device is a little thicker than I expected, but that's ofcourse caused by the qwerty keyboard. The phone is responding quite fast, but sometimes seems to hang for some time, and can be controlled really well with the new touchwiz interface. I expect the speed will further improve with upcoming firmware updates. The keyboard i.m.o. is excellent developed, it is stable and responding really accurate. Running windows mobile 6.1, update to WM6.5 promised to be available within a couple of weeks Firmware version of my Dutch Language Vodafone phone: PDA B7610BUIH1 / Phone B7610BUIH1 My guess is that wm 6.5 will bring the responsiveness to a whole new level. But we will see about that. Also If you remove of disable the touchwiz and todaywidget's and let's say install spb shell the device is much much quicker!
Guest JeroenFransen Posted October 13, 2009 Report Posted October 13, 2009 I just received 2x Omnia Pro B7610, called omnia qwerty in the Netherlands today from the Vodafone shop. ... Does it have Vodafone customization? Did you get the 6.5 update yet? I´ve been waiting for Vodafone NL to deliver mine, might still be a while as apparently they didn´t get new stock of the device until today.
Guest Sera Posted October 13, 2009 Report Posted October 13, 2009 Does it have Vodafone customization? Did you get the 6.5 update yet? I´ve been waiting for Vodafone NL to deliver mine, might still be a while as apparently they didn´t get new stock of the device until today. Got mine from Vodafone a week ago, no customization but it's simlock free for some reason, so that's awesome. Samsung say the B7610 gets wm 6.5 in November.
Guest kibiwi Posted October 15, 2009 Report Posted October 15, 2009 Are the upgrade to wm 6.5 available in Netherlands?I read something like that on official site of samsung on the page of the support, but Dutch is not my spoken language so maybe I am wrong...
Guest JeroenFransen Posted October 15, 2009 Report Posted October 15, 2009 (edited) Are the upgrade to wm 6.5 available in Netherlands?I read something like that on official site of samsung on the page of the support, but Dutch is not my spoken language so maybe I am wrong... It looks like it isn't yet available. I just downloaded the latest NPS (1.3.0.II4) but it still says the device isn't supported when looking for software updates. Could you maybe send the URL of the page where you think you saw it announced? Edit: just found 1.3.0.IJ1 but it still doesn't allow device updates. Edited October 15, 2009 by JeroenFransen
Guest kibiwi Posted October 15, 2009 Report Posted October 15, 2009 It looks like it isn't yet available. I just downloaded the latest NPS (1.3.0.II4) but it still says the device isn't supported when looking for software updates. Could you maybe send the URL of the page where you think you saw it announced? Edit: just found 1.3.0.IJ1 but it still doesn't allow device updates. This is the page http://www.samsungmobile.nl/promotion/news....do?newsNo=1701 but I understood that the download is not released yet in Netherlands
Guest Sera Posted October 15, 2009 Report Posted October 15, 2009 nice, according to that link we can update mid october...so seems very soon and the november predictions everywhere were wrong.
Guest JeroenFransen Posted October 16, 2009 Report Posted October 16, 2009 nice, according to that link we can update mid october...so seems very soon and the november predictions everywhere were wrong. Wan´t mid October some time around midnight last night? Seriously, I just checked again from Windows 7 and from XP and device is still not recognized... I just got the phone this week and was hoping to put WinMo 6.5 (or even better: a custom rom without Touchwiz and replacing it with Manila 2.6) before personalising everything and loading all my data on it.
Guest Sera Posted October 16, 2009 Report Posted October 16, 2009 mid october to me is until the 20th or so. i'll give them a couple of days...got spb mobile shell install and am happy with that for now..big improvement to standard 6.1 or touchwiz imo
Guest JeroenFransen Posted October 20, 2009 Report Posted October 20, 2009 mid october to me is until the 20th or so. i'll give them a couple of days...got spb mobile shell install and am happy with that for now..big improvement to standard 6.1 or touchwiz imo Anyone heard about final availability date? I still don't see it around anywhere and it's 20th October now.
Guest dagrim1 Posted October 20, 2009 Report Posted October 20, 2009 Anyone heard about final availability date? I still don't see it around anywhere and it's 20th October now. There was a video where someone from samsung said the win6.5 update for the b7610 would be available in november. I could post a link but the video is in dutch so I dunno how useful it would be :)
Guest JeroenFransen Posted October 20, 2009 Report Posted October 20, 2009 There was a video where someone from samsung said the win6.5 update for the b7610 would be available in november. I could post a link but the video is in dutch so I dunno how useful it would be :) True, but Samsung keep saying on their Dutch website (Samsung 7610 6.5 update) that the update is coming out mid October. Textually they say "De Samsung Omnia II en Omnia Qwerty zijn vanaf medio oktober 2009 gratis te upgraden naar Windows Mobile 6.5." (emphasis is mine). Hopefully they didn't get their messages mixed up.
Guest Ariekanarie Posted October 20, 2009 Report Posted October 20, 2009 (edited) There was a video where someone from samsung said the win6.5 update for the b7610 would be available in november. I could post a link but the video is in dutch so I dunno how useful it would be :) If you look at the countryflags at each member, you see, that all the posters are dutch, except one :( So please post everything you can ;) Edited October 20, 2009 by Ariekanarie
Guest dagrim1 Posted October 21, 2009 Report Posted October 21, 2009 If you look at the countryflags at each member, you see, that all the posters are dutch, except one :) So please post everything you can :( Oh, hehe... well, in that case: http://www.mobilyz.com/video/evenementen/1...gm750-previews/ The samsung bit starts at ~6:45 and about the omnia-pro getting updated to 6.5 in november at ~7:30 and again at ~7:50
Guest santoo Posted October 23, 2009 Report Posted October 23, 2009 this might be a dumb question, but what keyboard-layout does the dutch b7610 have? standard (english) qwerty? or qwertz (like the german phones)? TIA
Guest dagrim1 Posted October 23, 2009 Report Posted October 23, 2009 this might be a dumb question, but what keyboard-layout does the dutch b7610 have? standard (english) qwerty? or qwertz (like the german phones)? TIA It's a standard qwerty keyboard
Guest santoo Posted October 23, 2009 Report Posted October 23, 2009 It's a standard qwerty keyboard thanks for clearing that up!
Guest Pepeto Posted October 23, 2009 Report Posted October 23, 2009 thanks for clearing that up! And... anybody knows how to write special characters (á, é...ñ...) using hardware keyboard? It was easy with my previous htc kaiser, a + fn-Space = á But I don't know how to do it with my b7610...
Guest c0n3 Posted October 23, 2009 Report Posted October 23, 2009 And... anybody knows how to write special characters (á, é...ñ...) using hardware keyboard? It was easy with my previous htc kaiser, a + fn-Space = á But I don't know how to do it with my b7610... As far as I know that isn't possible, ofcourse it is via the onscreen keyboard....
Guest RelaxedWarrior Posted October 24, 2009 Report Posted October 24, 2009 Today the links in the below webpage to the free upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.5 went dead..."promotie is beëindigd" (promotion has ended) :D http://www.samsungmobile.nl/promotion/news....do?newsNo=1701 Yesterday it was still working. Got my phone en imediately registered. Hopefully I'm still able to use the promotion. Anyone else any ideas??
Guest Sera Posted October 24, 2009 Report Posted October 24, 2009 I still see it when I click on the link, looks just like before O.o
Guest Ariekanarie Posted October 25, 2009 Report Posted October 25, 2009 I still see it when I click on the link, looks just like before O.o for me too :D
Guest RelaxedWarrior Posted October 25, 2009 Report Posted October 25, 2009 for me too :P Still not working for me... :D Not very happy about it either. Will try it on another computer (I don't want to delete my cookies). Otherwise I'm going to contact Samsung...I want 6.5.
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