Samsung i8510 INNOV8 User Forums

[whiti26]

I have been wanting a new phone for a few weeks and thought I would buy the samsung i900 omnia. A few weeks after the omnia came the innov8 has come out. Now I cant decide which one to get. Could anyone offer any advice?

[Bigus]

The main thing that put me off the Omnia was the software keyboard and because I read somewhere that the video camera at VGA resolution only captures 15fps. Depends on what you want to use it for I guess.

[yade]

I had an omnia for 2 days, it was quite horrid to use. Samsung have tried to use widgets to make it fancy but the WM OS behind that is just horrid. Camera is OK but video recording horrid. I am not likely to ever follow the touchscreen trend.

[Briggs]

I have a Onmia i900. I'm really happy with it for many reasons. GPS on this thing is awesome, nice big touch screen is like having a dedicated GPS unit. Its camera takes good outdoor shots which I think are better than most 5mp cameras out there. Since running firmware H1 (mid August update) video quality improved a bit to about 20fps now. Its still crap when compared to a N95 or a LG viewty or Secret. But its acceptable.

I can type pretty fast using the Samsung keyboard in portrait mode, lots of space for the keys. It took a bit to get use to after my N95 8gb but I'm loving it now.

And often I watch movies and its great on that screen.

Reason why I got it over the i8510 were, it was out before *main reason*
Its slim and lighter, GPS is great. A Touch screen is nice.


Heres some shots I took using GPS. I use Garmin XT or Tomtom 7



Sample test photos I took using the camera (5mp)



As you can see for a 5mp camera its pretty good.

Its really depends on what you want.

Go for the Omnia if you want:

A touch screen
nice for GPS
Watching Movies on a bigger screen.
Hand writing recognition
Windows mobile 6.1

Get a i8510 if you want:

Normal keypad
Best camera in a mobile to date
better video recording.

[y8510]

i want buy the i8510 because its one of the technical best phones at moment next to the N96..

i also like touchscreen based phones (i had the e680i linux phone from motorola more than 3 years long). sadly i couldnt find another so good toucstreen based phone as the e680i was that runns either symbian or linux. at moment i use my brothers "old" N95 normal with an 8Gb card. i dont want have windows on a phone since i hate windows and changed it with linux on my computers.
i also have a LG KU990 viewty (that i found in a public bathroom) as an second phone but it isnt so good.

i know that a touchscreen based phone comes out from nokia, the 5800 Tube but on real pics it looks quite a cheap plastic brick.

the samsung omnia is much nicer but has windows on it. these windows mobile has a nice UI front now that they look a bit nicer but behind is allways the same old UI style that i know since 1999 that i have the first pda(from a friend), the other thing it crashes all the time if i tried something it should work but it doesnt really. maybe its a bit better now.

last year i nearly bought also an iPhone but there missed the half of the functions of a normal phone.