I’ve been looking at cell phones for months, and I’ve finally found something that I like. Today I bought a Samsung Omnia.
The most important thing I wanted was a large screen, and the ability to store & display photos. Sort of like carrying pictures around in my wallet.
That left me with very few options. It came down to the Blackberry Storm, the LG Dare, and the Omnia. I also looked at a few other phones that were to crappy to remember, most notably, the phone that looks like the LG Dare but opens up and has a keyboard.
The Blackberry Storm was originally what I wanted. After playing with one for five minutes, I hated it, mostly because of the click screen. It’s a cool theory, but it practice, the bubble screen makes it really hard to tell what button you’re actually pushing. Again, in theory, the button you’re pushing is supposed to light up when your finger is on it & not clicking…. but it just didn’t.
The LG Dare seemed inferior in almost every way. It was cheaper, but not by enough. The only thing I saw as an advantage was the fact that all the buttons are big. A lot of the time, the Omnia feels like I should be using a stylus, when all I have are my sausage-fat fingers. Annoyingly enough, the Omnia comes with a stylus – but there’s no place to store it in the phone. When I lose it, I’ll be sure to revisit this post.
So now I’ve got 100 pictures or so loaded, I’m synced with my Outlook Calendar, I’ve got Benny Hill set as my morning alarm & ringtone, and I managed to stumble my way through a few emails & twitter updates. I won’t be writing any lengthy blog posts from my phone anytime soon, but I’ve found typing on the touch screen to be less annoying than I imagined. Still, if you’re seriously into texting, I wouldn’t recommend this or any other touch screen phone. The qwerty keyboard, or even the regular number pads make for much faster typing.