Samsung Omnia becomes first DivX Certified handset in USA
By Darren Murph 
posted Nov 26th 2008 10:50PM
posted Nov 26th 2008 10:50PM
Samsung's Omnia is far from being the first handset in its stable to grab the coveted DivX Certified badge, but it is the first with said badge to ship in the United States of America. What's it all mean? Pretty simple, really -- those lured in by the Omnia's boyish good looks and seductive touchpanel will have no issues playing back DivX video files on the 3.2-inch screen, regardless of whether those files are stored on the 8GB of internal space or on a microSD card. We probably speak for DivX fans across the web when we say that this is hopefully just the beginning of a long list of DivX-friendly phones to come stateside.
This means exactly jack squat.
Any smartphone capable of running the Core media player (TCPMP) can run DivX without a problem. I've been doing it since Windows CE 3.0...
This is just a certification given by DivX as part of a marketing ploy. It does not magically "enable" the device to play divX content, especially since any WM device can do that...
Gimmicks work too though, so if it sells units it does the job. You have to consider that not everyone who gets a WM device is tech savvy enough to download TCPMP, it's not even an advertised program. It is very easy to find however. This phone looks like it's for someone who wants something flashy so they really spruced up the UI. But for the nerds it has alot of great features too.
"DivX certification means squat- do you need your PC to be DivX certified to play video?"
Actually, you should indeed use DivX certified software on your Mac and PC. DivX software is free and other players like VLC cannot display DivX subtitles, interactive menus, alternate audio tracks or video tracks. Furthermore, only DivX certified devices and software can play films from the DivX Video On Demand system.
Perhaps more important than any of that, most DivX certified devices use hardware acceleration to decode video which means they can typically play much larger and higher quality video than your average cell phone using a software player like TCPMP or even the official DivX Mobile Player.
If it isn't "DivX certified," you are missing out.
And this first is coming from a phone from Verizon? I must say, Verizon has been continuing to impress me with their phones.
Dude- I just said its a marketing ploy. DivX certification means squat- do you need your PC to be DivX certified to play video? Or do you just open VLC or something, and go at it?
That Verizon is the first to rely on a marketing gimmick to sell something every Windows Mobile phone can do- nah, that doesn't surprise me.
Seriously, what is everyone's problem here! Keep in mind that some people aren't tech savvy, and don't know what the hell TCPMP and VLC do, or that they even exist. Probably more than half the people buying this phone won't even know what the hell divx is either. Whoever it was that said that gimmicks sell was right, and this is just another one.
This is totally unrelated to this article, but why has everybody been ripping Verizon for never allowing WiFi on their phones? the XV6700 had it, 6800 has it, my i760 has it, not sure what everybody's so pissed about.
its because verizon's "event phones" never have the wi-fi and people are cheap.
"waah, waah I want Wi-Fi." Get a better network, or get an ipaq, lol
This is what happens when you run on a modern CPU that happens to be NOT a sluggish Qualcomm.