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Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
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The Marketplace has a section where Samsung has housed its own set of apps, available only for Samsung mobile phones.
The Marketplace has a section where Samsung has housed its own set of apps, available only for Samsung mobile phones. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
       
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The Samsung Omnia W is a great Windows Phone available at under Rs 20,000. The operating system is sure to impress even the hardest of critics. Plus, the phone is very snappy to use. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
Isn’t that 3.7-inch Super AMOLED display absolutely gorgeous? The Metro UI and its fonts look crispy and almost pop out of the display. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
The back of the phones features a decent 5-megapixel camera, LED flash and a little grille for the loud speaker. The back panel is a little too smooth for our comfort and the phone tends to slip off if the palm gets sweaty. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
The left of Omnia W has nothing but just a volume rocker towards the top. Nothing fancy, but absolutely functional and easy to use. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
There are a power button and a camera button to the right. Excuse the image quality. It went out of focus, a bit. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
The top houses the standard 3.5-mm headphone jack and a small hole for the noise cancellation mic. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
The bottom has just a mini-USB charging and data transfer port. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
The 5-megapixel camera takes decent photos, but definitely isn’t anywhere in the league of other 5-inchers like iPhone 4 and Blackberry 9780. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
Right below the display, Omnia W has the Windows button in the center, flanked by two touch sensitive buttons that work as the back and search buttons. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
Despite the powerful innards and impressing sAMOLED display, the complete built of the phone very cheap and plastic. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
Even though the sim card can be pulled out without pulling the battery, the phone automatically switches off when the sim card is withdran. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
The battery pack is pretty good with 1500mAh. On a moderate usage on 3G, the phone lasts almost 16 hours. That’s as good as the whole day. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
This is why you shall drool over WP7 Mango. The social media integration is so deep in the OS, it is almost sick! Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
The People’s tab also houses a list of tiles denoting the contacts you have recently interacting with. It could be a call, sms, tweet or even an IM message. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
Ability to collate contacts in groups and being able to follow them, instead of the whole contact list, is a very useful feature. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
This is called the “Me card” that shows the profile image, latest update, and options to update status, check in & set Windows Live Messenger’s chat status. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
The music quality of the phone is not exactly breathtaking. Rather, it is pretty ordinary. And it stayed that way even after plugging in the super amazing Razer Carcharias headsets. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
Again, and again, you won’t stop marveling at how beautiful Windows Phone 7 looks. It’s so sharp, crispy and almost delectable. Yumm! Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
The Marketplace has a section where Samsung has housed its own set of apps, available only for Samsung mobile phones. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
The Marketplace is categorized into Featured, Top Free, Top Paid etc. The apps are not highly priced, but not many of them are too useful either. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
The most useless app in the phone is Bing Maps. Rather than telling me my current location, it could do absolutely nothing. Zilch. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
And the award for The Most Beautiful App of WP7 has to go to Foursquare. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
Microsoft Office and SkyDrive and very closely integrated with WP7, and are pleasure to use. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
The Samsung Omnia W is a great Windows Phone available at under Rs 20,000. The operating system is sure to impress even the hardest of critics. Plus, the phone is very snappy to use. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
The list of games on WP7 is very rich. Probably not as much as iOS, but the presence of Xbox Live makes WP7 the best mobile gaming platform in the world. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
The weather app. Beautiful, but not much useful. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
The news app. Again, beautiful but useless. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
The Now application shows updates like weather, news, stock, exchange rates and top tweets. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
Comparing the sizes. From top to bottom - Samsung Omnia W, Samsung Wave III, and Sony Xperia Arc S. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
Brothers in arms :Samsung Omnia W, Sony Xperia Arc S, andSamsung Wave III [l-r]. Picture Review: Samsung Omnia W with WP7
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