Samsung Omnia III prototype (with pictures)

[Guest msra6la2]

http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/10866.html

it looks like Samsung Wave

[Guest azza6]

Meh.

The Omnia II is already better than the iPhone. Pathetic piece of writing.

If I get enough use out of my Omnia II before the III comes out, who knows? I might upgrade. But until then nothing else is doing what my Omnia does.

EDIT: But thanks for the update. :)

Edited March 19, 2010 by azza6

[Guest Pako777]

msra6la2, its not prototype.. its OmniaHD (i8910) with installed WM7 by Microsoft. (that say Microsoft)

[Guest msra6la2]

msra6la2, its not prototype.. its OmniaHD (i8910) with installed WM7 by Microsoft. (that say Microsoft)

the picture shows the phone to be half as thin as Omnia HD. Can't be Omnia HD when a) the phone is thinner, :) the central button is windows button

[Guest jermx]

Its a i8910HD with a screen swapped out by microsoft for a WVGA one and also other changes.

Everything is done only by microsoft not samsung.

[Guest .:stn:.]

it looks like Omnia HD, I've seen more photos of even better quality on the net and it was presented as a telefon ready for WP7 and the handset which meets MS WP7 Demands.

It's e.g. here: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20100316/...samsung-device/

[Guest Pijiu]

Meh.

The Omnia II is already better than the iPhone. Pathetic piece of writing.

If I get enough use out of my Omnia II before the III comes out, who knows? I might upgrade. But until then nothing else is doing what my Omnia does.

EDIT: But thanks for the update. :)

...and Omnia III will probably still have only 256MB of RAM as well...........&%(^&*^%

[Guest surenz]

...and Omnia III will probably still have only 256MB of RAM as well...........&%(^&*^%

to be more correct - 142 MB of user usable memory lol

[Guest surethom]

If running Windows mobile 7 then no thanks.

[Guest Carlos Sun]

how dare Samsung release Omnia III before fixed most of the issue on Omnia II? it makes me angry!

[Guest stylus1828]

how dare Samsung release Omnia III before fixed most of the issue on Omnia II? it makes me angry!

Because Samsung doesn't give a crap about us. This will be defenetly my last Samsung device.

[Guest enrico988]

Because Samsung doesn't give a crap about us. This will be defenetly my last Samsung device.

That's really OmniaHD. Microsoft is using it as WM7 tester.

[Guest msra6la2]

how dare Samsung release Omnia III before fixed most of the issue on Omnia II? it makes me angry!

tbh, it makes me a bit angry when people complain about O2 being sluggish. A friend of mine who owns a Acer NeoTouch (which runs on a 1Ghz Snapdragon processor and is much faster than O2 when ram is plentiful) says that his phone is just about as slow as O2 when it runs out of ram (the pace at which it leaks ram is just as quick). And another friend (more like ex-colleague) who owns a Touch diamond2 running official HTC WM6.5 rom, did a little comparison with my phone, and the result is that her Touch Diamond 2 is even more sluggish in performance and more laggy

As many of you know O2 came out in late July/ early August 2009 (b4 WM6.5 came out), which was 2 months b4 the launch of Neotouch and was around the same time as the launch of HTC touchpro 2. The phone interface was well optimised for WM6.1. Frankly, when I used 6.1, I never had a problem with the touchwiz interface or RAM problem (you have got around 90mb of free ram at start up but quickly runs down to 76mb after Samsung lockscreen is turned on and after Main Menu is switched on), the phone overall performance was smooth (at high performance). Samsung migrated the whole Touchwiz 2.0 interface over onto WM6.5 and created a disastrous result (many apps that are no longer of any use are still in the rom, whether they are hidden or not, for examples, Samsung Main Menu is not of any use in 6.5 but for some reason they kept it and reskinned the menu and ate alot of rom and ram; Samsung Lockscreen settings is still hidden inside the rom despite it being useless in 6.5).

To me, the whole fuss bout O2 is all down to 2 things: a) WM6.5 is a joke, it eats up just as much of ram as 6.1 but it also requires more ram to run the OS than 6.1. This implies the phone runs out of ram very quickly (in WM6.5.3 things have much improved albiet I am using full 6.5.3 rom - before I flashed JB1 6.5.3 rom my phone never lasted one day before I had to reboot the whole system but now it lasts for at least a day to 3 days depending on how many programmes I run). :) Samsung has made no effort into trying to optimise touchwiz so that it would run smoothly on WM6.5 just like it does on WM6.1 (for some reason, it runs okay smooth on WM6.5.x - perhaps it's because 6.5.x is what WM6.5 should've been - I think of the comparison between 6.1 6.5 and 6.5.x in this way: 6.1 = XP -not too demanding for O2 and the whole system is stable albiet a bit slow, 6.5 = Vista - a piece of junk that's slow and so demanding in terms of hardware, and that is a failed attmept to make WM prettiet and that is extremely inefficient, non user friendly , 6.5.x = Windows 7, demanding in terms of hardware, but it's much more efficient and user friendly, and the whole OS is more pretty, faster than 6.5, and 6.1 in my opinion)

why do I hate WM6.5 so much?

my cousin owns a HD2 (ok he's given it to his wife after he got a Nexus One) and a Nexus One, he says that even tho his HD2 (non US-version) has about 470 mb of ram (200+ free ram at start up), it runs down to about 100mb of ram after 3/4 of a day of checking e-mails, running Opera Mobile 9.7, listening to music etc.... so even HD2 doesn't last very long b4 it has to reboot. On the other hand, he says he hardly ever has to reboot his NExus One because it doesn't run out of ram. As far as I am concerned ram management is appalling in all WM OS versions but WM6.5 is the worst of them all. In addition to this fact, WM6.5 is the slowest WM OS out of WM6, 6.1, 6.5, 6.5.3, 6.5.5 (all WM os versions I have used thus far)

Overall, Microsoft never should've introduced WM6.5, it's so blatant that 6.5 is an unfinished, waggy piece of crap which aims to satisfy our want for a new improved OS but failed quite miserably, they shouldve just launched WM6.5.x to all WM devices capable of running WM6.5 instead. Hence I am laying most part of the blame on WM6.5 .

Edited March 19, 2010 by msra6la2