Samsung Omnia Icon

Samsung Omnia Icon Review

The Samsung Omnia Icon is a step up from the original Omnia. This smartphone features a large, AMOLED touchscreen, an upgraded version of the TouchWIZ interface, as well as a 5-megapixel camera. The Icon is stylish and sexy, featuring a glossy finish, though it is slightly larger than the original Omnia.

One of the advantages of the larger design is the bigger touchscreen that comes with the Icon; the display on this phone measures 3.7-inches and provides a bight and beautiful picture.

With the upgraded interface, the Samsung Omnia Icon gives you three different home screens, and now you can drag and drop icons onto your home screen for easy access to your favorite applications. Sending email and text messages is easy with the virtual landscape QWERTY keyboard featured on the Samsung Icon Omnia.

Aside from having some tweaks with the user interface, there are plenty of other features that you’ll get with the Omnia Icon, including a 5-megapixel camera that comes with dual LED flash, as well as auto focus. In addition to taking still pictures, this camera will also record video. Photo and video quality is about average for a camera phone, and though it is good enough to take along so you never need miss those unexpected photo moments, it probably won’t replace your stand-alone camera or camcorder.

You will also get Bluetooth and WiFi, as well as an integrated GPS receiver. The GPS allows for geo tagging, which is a fun feature to have with your phone. For multimedia features you get a built in FM radio, as well as a music and video player; the formats supported include of DivX and XviD video formats.

To store all of your media files this phone comes with a large amount of internal memory, plus you can expand the phone’s memory significantly with a microSD card. As for the performance of the Samsung Omnia Icon, you will find that it isn’t the fastest mobile around, though it is faster than many Windows Mobile phones.

If you want a smartphone that comes with all of the most popular connectivity features, as well as fantastic media tools, the Samsung Omnia Icon could be just what you are looking for. Due to the fact that this phone is slightly high priced, you will want to look for the best Omnia Icon deals before buying. Though it might be difficult, it is possible to find a cheap Samsung Omnia Icon smartphone if you do enough shopping around.