It seems that complaint report on the Samsung i8910 Omnia HD has finally paid off. Samsung just announced an upcoming firmware update that will address some of the issues the user community has reported. Unfortunately, the less-than-24fps video recording is not among them.
There are three changes that the firmware update will bring. The first is an improved browser, with faster user interface. The browser on the Samsung i8910 Omnia HD needed a kick in the pants for its real life experience.
The next update is the addition of kinetic scrolling, which the browser already has, but the rest of the interface doesn’t. Samsung spruced up the S60 5th edition UI with its widget happy TouchWiz UI, but changes didn’t go much further than the homescreen. At least now, the Samsung Omnia HD can catch up with the rest of the touchscreen gang.
The operator Sprint has officially announced that in the first quarter of next year they sold smartphones Samsung Omnia HD and Samsung Moment will receive a new firmware, and the last one will be running OS Android 2.1. And the main improvements of the known devices will receive the function of the kinetic scrolling. What other features will be added – is unknown. However, if for Symbian-cmartfona Omnia HD scrolling was promised at the beginning of the year, on the introduction of OS Android 2.1 Flan is no such certainty – according to preliminary information of his installation on Samsung Moment would be possible somewhere in the first half of 2010. Official details will be announced after the New Year.
It is time for Samsung Omnia HD i8910 tips and tricks. This time I will discuss a simple tips on setting photo contacts on the Samsung Omnia HD i8910. Recently I found this interesting article on the KnowYourMobile. As you might already know, the Samsung Omnia HD i8910 runs on Symbian S60 5th edition and it is a touchscreen phone. It also has a nice features that allows user to associate images on the Omnia HD with a contact.
Get the idea? Not yet? Here’s further explanation: By swiping a finger from left to right on the homescreen, users can pull up the Photo Contacts menu, which is displayed as a scrollable cascade of images. You can assign numbers to boxes you can place on the image, and make calls or send messages simply by pressing them.
Ok so let’s start; shall we?
Setting up Photo Contacts
In the homescreen, swipe your finger across from left to right.
In the Photo Contacts screen, tap the centre panel onscreen to add a new Photo Contact (alternatively, press the Add button).
A list of your photos stored on the phone is displayed.
Scroll up or down to locate the one you want to use. Drag your finger up or down the display, or press the sidebar and drag with your finger. When you’ve found the image you want to use, press it twice to select .
The image will be added to the Photo Contacts screen.
To add contacts…press edit, press add area and a small yellow box will appear, drag and drop the box anywhere on the display, resize by dragging the corner of the box, and press OK, options box opens and press link to phonebook and you’ll be taken to the photo contacts list, locate contact and assign to the photo contact image, press contact twice to select, a select phone number appears, select the number and press OK and the contact number is assigned to the image.
Matther Miller at allaboutsymbian.com had written his personal oppinion regarding Samsung Omnia HD. Apparently finally he preferred to choose Apple iPhone for a reason, although everyone might admit that Samsung Omnia HD was great. Here are his short story.
He used Samsung Omnia Windows Mobile for approximately a month and then decided to move to Apple iPhone. The reason why he did not choose Omnia HD was simply because he was not a fan of big QWERTY keyboard like what Samsung Omnia HD had. However, he admitted that Omnia HD had beautiful display as well as design features.
Rafe and Steve form Allaboutsymbian.com had a detail review of Samsung OMNIA HD like mentioned below.
The software still had debug code so it might be better developed.
OMNIA HD maybe is the biggest screen phone, its heigh is relatively tall compared with others. It has bright and contrast color screen compare with others (in this chance are iPod Touch and Nokia 5800). OMNIA HD has the same problem with Nokia 5800, both dont have multi-touch. Before tapping a new key, you must lift off the previous key completely. Doing it too fast, a small overlap will happen and 2 inputs can be processed.
Eldar Murtazin from Mobile-Review has a luck to play with the prototype of Samsung Omnia HD. He wrote a long and detailed review about this phone HERE.
Samsung Omnia HD is the successor of hugely popular Omnia i900. This beast has capability of 720p playback and capture as well as wireless connectivity to certain TV’s this beauty is a cinema in your pocket. Here video review of Samsung Omnia HD by Stuart Miles at MWC2009
