http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/ Engadget Mobile Comments for Verizon's Samsung Omnia (that's Esperanto for "blur") in the wild http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/>>>>]]>Nov 18th 2008 10:10PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/Nov 18th 2008 11:20PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/Nov 19th 2008 12:05AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/Nov 19th 2008 1:34AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/Nov 19th 2008 1:52AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/Even win mobile in this package has become a pleasure to use, BUT , there is a huge hole in this rosy picture: The Omnia totally lacks voice dialing capabilities.
No voice tags at all.
Someone said that somewhere it should be possible to find a win mobile app that would add this very useful function to my beloved Omnia but so far I have been unable to find it.
Such a shame because beside having all the stuff sorely lacking in the iPhone (including: modem function for laptops, 5mpx camera/videocam, cut and paste, MMS, flash player, Opera, push e mail, etc, etc.) the touch screen and UI are surprisingly good and easy, and even fun to use.( none of the HTC irritations & frustrations).
Why Samsung, why? This could have been the "perfect phone".]]>Nov 19th 2008 3:49AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/downloads/microsoft/about-voice-command.mspx


Oooook.]]>Nov 19th 2008 9:08AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/Dec 26th 2008 11:36PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/ I must answer Jason and JohnIII just because I can't stand comments by people who just don't know what they are talking about.

@Jason. these phones might be unreleased in the place where you live (the US I bet) but in Europe have been around since last summer or the beginning of the autumn at least (I got my Omnia in the beginning of november).
MS Voice command is a bloated program that does'nt work well with the Omnia , that's why almost all Omnia users , including myself, install Cyberon Speed Dial instead.
But no matter which voice activation prog. you install in the Omnia you still will not be able to start a call from your Bluetooth headset.
First you must tap a button and give the voice order to the phone's microphone, only after that the BT headset will pick up.

@JohnIII : What the hell are you talkin about?
All the forum and sites dedicated to the Samsung Omnia are alive with people trying to find a solution to the Omnia's total lack of voice activation and comparing how well other progs for win mobile can be used instead.
If you have seen an Omnia with voice control please tell me what you have been smoking and afterwareds head directly to one of the Omnia's dedicated forums where you will be hailed as the hero who found a fix to the only major bug of a nearly perfect phone. ]]>Dec 5th 2008 5:00PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/
You can take a free online course of Esperanto at Lernu: www.lernu.net ;)]]>Nov 19th 2008 10:52AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/
"all the stuff sorely lacking in the iPhone (including: modem function for laptops, 5mpx camera/videocam, cut and paste, MMS, flash player, Opera, push e mail, etc, etc.)".

You must not know much about the iPhone. First, the modem "function" aka tether option is in the works and will be on its way. Second, 5mp camera is irrelevant because that's hardware (I personally don't buy a phone for its camera. But, it is easy for other manufactures to put larger then a 2mp simply because they know that's one area they can beat the iPhone. Not too hard when the product has been on the shelf for over a year). Third, Opera has got to be the stupidest complaint I've ever read about the iPhone. Have you ever used mobile Safari? If you read just about any website, it's been ranked as the best mobile browser. Fourth, Push e-mail... maybe you didn't happen to read that push e-mail has been implemented on the iPhone since firmware 2.0. In fact, I have my Gmail pushed to me every hour.

As far are your other complains (copy/paste, mms, flash, ect, ect), yes, those are true. But it's not a complete upset. Still the best phone I've ever had. And flash should be on its way... probably not before winmo and android get it, but it will come. Apple just doesn't want to put crap on their phone and make it run horrible.
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Amazing resolution, but nothing like the BOLD of course.
Has a menu on the left hand side you can put away your apps and such. And slide them out again. I have to say I wasn't AS disappointed as I could have been when I saw the screen lag. I think this is to be expected for a long time with these touch screen windows mobile phones (*ahem ahem TOUCH PRO*) OPERA web browser. Accelerometer, (you can turn it on or off) when you turn the phone sideways the image on the screen will spin (its weird and hard to explain, other than a waste of time and it WILL get annoying when you're in a rush to send a text or email)

Dont recall the camera MP.]]>Nov 19th 2008 3:25PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/
As for the camera-- it is 5mp, but the screen resolution is not that great (400 x 240), so although you can produce hi-res pics, you probably will have difficulty seeing them on this phone directly.]]>Dec 24th 2008 9:03PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/Nov 20th 2008 3:03PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/

First of all, you are a misinformed jerk.

I own a Verizon Samsung Omnia. It arrived the day after Thanksgiving and I have been using it since that day.

I use the voice dialing all the time, it's called voice command, just look it up.
I hit the button on my BT headset and say call and the name of the person I want to call. If I have more than one number listed for that person, it will ask me if I want to call that person at home, mobile, or work. I say which one I want to call and it then dials the number.
I can also use the voice command to launch my programs.




]]>Dec 26th 2008 11:52PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/18/verizons-samsung-omnia-thats-esperanto-for-blur-in-the-wil/@ JOHN III


First of all you are a lieing turd.

I'm holding an Omnia in my hand and I have used it for well over a month.
Because it has never ever had any voice activated calling option or software,, after inquiring and getting info from other Omnia users from dedicated fora (specially MO-DA-CO), I did what most other Omnia users did: i.e: I downloaded and installed "Cyberon Voice Dial, Which works allright, but only after I started the call using the phone's own mic.
Just go to Mo-DA-CO and read the dedicated threads by folks pissed off with Samsung for not installing such a simple software ; and then the threads dedicated to discussing which voice dialing software is best on the Omnia.(BTW apparently MS voice commander does not work well on this specific phone).

Belive me on this: before posting on a forum in the future try to get to know what you're babbling about: you will still sound like the moron you are, but you would avoid to waste so much of people's time.
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