Comments on: Life with an Omnia HD http://hdomnia.com/life-with-an-omnia-hd/ Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:20:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Me http://hdomnia.com/life-with-an-omnia-hd/comment-page-1/#comment-487 Me Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:04:52 +0000 http://hdomnia.com/?p=480#comment-487 Hi, Can some one tell me help me or the folowing problems with Samsung i8910? 1) Can not find videp editor. Only image editor is available. 2) My bluetooth headset, Nokia 900, is working fine for the calls but I can't listen to music through the headset. 3) Is there any quick way to mark/ unmark multiple items? 4) How can I play videos in portrait position (vertcal position)? A reply on my email is much appreciated: mercy2997@hotymail.com Thanx Hi,
Can some one tell me help me or the folowing problems with Samsung i8910?
1) Can not find videp editor. Only image editor is available.
2) My bluetooth headset, Nokia 900, is working fine for the calls but I can’t listen to music through the headset.
3) Is there any quick way to mark/ unmark multiple items?
4) How can I play videos in portrait position (vertcal position)?

A reply on my email is much appreciated:
mercy2997@hotymail.com

Thanx

]]> By: Jacob Issac http://hdomnia.com/life-with-an-omnia-hd/comment-page-1/#comment-480 Jacob Issac Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:38:10 +0000 http://hdomnia.com/?p=480#comment-480 Please how were you able to fix the podcast app, I can't find any cache folder associated with the program. Please try to remember. Please how were you able to fix the podcast app, I can’t find any cache folder associated with the program. Please try to remember.

]]> By: loafmeister http://hdomnia.com/life-with-an-omnia-hd/comment-page-1/#comment-479 loafmeister Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:00:48 +0000 http://hdomnia.com/?p=480#comment-479 oops. I was sure that I'd read that route66 works with Omnia HD and so ordered it. Put it on phone today and ..... :-(. It loads up, talks to internal GPS but the keys don't work on the touch screen so you cannot access the features. As it has Orange firmware on it I think it's to do with that after reading another review too late. oops.
I was sure that I’d read that route66 works with Omnia HD and so ordered it. Put it on phone today and ….. :-( . It loads up, talks to internal GPS but the keys don’t work on the touch screen so you cannot access the features. As it has Orange firmware on it I think it’s to do with that after reading another review too late.

]]> By: loafmeister http://hdomnia.com/life-with-an-omnia-hd/comment-page-1/#comment-478 loafmeister Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:25:10 +0000 http://hdomnia.com/?p=480#comment-478 In overall agreement with rleader. Owned old O2 vda using win6 and found navigating and adapting far easier. Getting used to navigating Omnia HD but seriously ticked off with lack of applications that seem to be available that are compatible. I am aware that it's possible to clean Orange's firmware from it but don't trust my techy skills and can't see how this would help a lack of available applications. When typing password letters into the touchpad in phone mode you have to work it out in your head as it's only a numeric keypad in phone mode - even though in text mode you can switch between numeric and numeric/alphabet. Samsung don't seem to be concerned about the lack of apps - the GPS is next to useless as Orange Maps doesn't work as I ported my number and their system couldn't cope with this and their "techies" have apparently been trying to fix the issue for the past two months? Garmin comes on a tiny locked card, CoPilot don't show compatibility with S60 but do with Win? Good news though - Route66 is apparently compatible and hopefully will pass through the postbox soon. Video and camera great though. Screen clear and touch works well. Shame about the software problems. In overall agreement with rleader. Owned old O2 vda using win6 and found navigating and adapting far easier. Getting used to navigating Omnia HD but seriously ticked off with lack of applications that seem to be available that are compatible. I am aware that it’s possible to clean Orange’s firmware from it but don’t trust my techy skills and can’t see how this would help a lack of available applications. When typing password letters into the touchpad in phone mode you have to work it out in your head as it’s only a numeric keypad in phone mode – even though in text mode you can switch between numeric and numeric/alphabet. Samsung don’t seem to be concerned about the lack of apps – the GPS is next to useless as Orange Maps doesn’t work as I ported my number and their system couldn’t cope with this and their “techies” have apparently been trying to fix the issue for the past two months? Garmin comes on a tiny locked card, CoPilot don’t show compatibility with S60 but do with Win? Good news though – Route66 is apparently compatible and hopefully will pass through the postbox soon. Video and camera great though. Screen clear and touch works well. Shame about the software problems.

]]> By: Rleader http://hdomnia.com/life-with-an-omnia-hd/comment-page-1/#comment-468 Rleader Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:40:32 +0000 http://hdomnia.com/?p=480#comment-468 Re: audio quality It is easily comparable to my iPod touch 2nd gen. I would say i8910 better for rock/punchy music. iPod better over the whole range of styles eg classical / jazz. V difficult to answer. But I don't think you will be disappointed with the i8910 in this regard! Re: audio quality
It is easily comparable to my iPod touch 2nd gen. I would say i8910 better for rock/punchy music. iPod better over the whole range of styles eg classical / jazz. V difficult to answer. But I don’t think you will be disappointed with the i8910 in this regard!

]]> By: McBoorack http://hdomnia.com/life-with-an-omnia-hd/comment-page-1/#comment-396 McBoorack Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:46:54 +0000 http://hdomnia.com/?p=480#comment-396 Hey! I've got a question about audio quality... How do You evaluate it? Is it even comparable to iPod? Hey! I’ve got a question about audio quality… How do You evaluate it? Is it even comparable to iPod?

]]> By: rleader http://hdomnia.com/life-with-an-omnia-hd/comment-page-1/#comment-262 rleader Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:39:10 +0000 http://hdomnia.com/?p=480#comment-262 Pix: spot on, pretty much! The i8910 was the handset I chose this year and the disappointment all stems from what you cannot test (the software). All the hardware is in place, it is just all implemented at beta, sometimes pre-alpha IMHO, development! This is unfortunate (for Samsung). I still use my WinMo 6.1 handset from last year as TomTom/GPS works very well, and also carry my iPod touch 2nd Gen for the evening's relaxation. Believe it or not, the killer feature I like on the iPod touch is the 'sleep' countdown timer. So I can just drop off to sleep, safe in the knowledge that only e.g. 30min battery drains. The i8910's battery drain 'possible feature' that I, and other users, have experienced (almost total battery drain overnight for no apparent reason) is the most serious flaw IMHO. Additional info here: I'd like to add that there are reports of two new firmware updates, perhaps by mid-July, but who knows? However, I predict that one will contain (it better do!) an option to record 1280x720, with audio in AAC 16kHz, but probably only at 20fps.How can I say that? Well, I found at allaboutsymbian a preview file, called 720p.mp4, posted by their excellent team on March 26th 2009, which plays back on VLC with the above stats! Look a third of the way down the page here: http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/reviews/item/Samsung_Omnia_HD_Preview_I8910-Part_2-Camera_HD_video_and_Multimedia.php Pix: spot on, pretty much! The i8910 was the handset I chose this year and the disappointment all stems from what you cannot test (the software). All the hardware is in place, it is just all implemented at beta, sometimes pre-alpha IMHO, development! This is unfortunate (for Samsung). I still use my WinMo 6.1 handset from last year as TomTom/GPS works very well, and also carry my iPod touch 2nd Gen for the evening’s relaxation. Believe it or not, the killer feature I like on the iPod touch is the ’sleep’ countdown timer. So I can just drop off to sleep, safe in the knowledge that only e.g. 30min battery drains. The i8910’s battery drain ‘possible feature’ that I, and other users, have experienced (almost total battery drain overnight for no apparent reason) is the most serious flaw IMHO.
Additional info here: I’d like to add that there are reports of two new firmware updates, perhaps by mid-July, but who knows?
However, I predict that one will contain (it better do!) an option to record 1280×720, with audio in AAC 16kHz, but probably only at 20fps.How can I say that? Well, I found at allaboutsymbian a preview file, called 720p.mp4, posted by their excellent team on March 26th 2009, which plays back on VLC with the above stats! Look a third of the way down the page here:
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/reviews/item/Samsung_Omnia_HD_Preview_I8910-Part_2-Camera_HD_video_and_Multimedia.php

]]> By: Pix http://hdomnia.com/life-with-an-omnia-hd/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Pix Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:34:09 +0000 http://hdomnia.com/?p=480#comment-168 Don't see the point of buying the i8910 if you are not going (don't know how) to use video playback/recording/gps, that is where the phone is best, if you just need browsing then (and only then) any WM (HTC) phone with Opera 9.7 is much better option (or an android, but they have terrible screens). And iPhone is only better if you are a really average user, and hate all the technobabble, because the phone is (in my opinion) an outdated piece of crap. (and no, I don't "hate" Apple, I own an iMac and an iPod, but that phone is rubbish) Don’t see the point of buying the i8910 if you are not going (don’t know how) to use video playback/recording/gps, that is where the phone is best, if you just need browsing then (and only then) any WM (HTC) phone with Opera 9.7 is much better option (or an android, but they have terrible screens).
And iPhone is only better if you are a really average user, and hate all the technobabble, because the phone is (in my opinion) an outdated piece of crap. (and no, I don’t “hate” Apple, I own an iMac and an iPod, but that phone is rubbish)

]]> By: yep http://hdomnia.com/life-with-an-omnia-hd/comment-page-1/#comment-164 yep Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:07:14 +0000 http://hdomnia.com/?p=480#comment-164 Thanks this is awesome!!!! Thanks this is awesome!!!!

]]> By: rleader http://hdomnia.com/life-with-an-omnia-hd/comment-page-1/#comment-163 rleader Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:00:15 +0000 http://hdomnia.com/?p=480#comment-163 another update: I did fix the broken Podcasts application by clearing out the cache folder I found that looked like it was associated to Podcasts, but I can't remember the details on how I found the folder, sorry - then in that same 'digging about' session I managed to corrupt icons in the Media Album app, which I haven't been able to sort out since. There's always something...! Oh, the France24 mobile TV app works BUT it doesn't know how to rotate the i8910 screen and it is stuck in portrait mode with half the image playing back off the screen.. shame, otherwise this would be a great app for such a big screen - perhaps France24 will fix it one day... another update: I did fix the broken Podcasts application by clearing out the cache folder I found that looked like it was associated to Podcasts, but I can’t remember the details on how I found the folder, sorry – then in that same ‘digging about’ session I managed to corrupt icons in the Media Album app, which I haven’t been able to sort out since. There’s always something…! Oh, the France24 mobile TV app works BUT it doesn’t know how to rotate the i8910 screen and it is stuck in portrait mode with half the image playing back off the screen.. shame, otherwise this would be a great app for such a big screen – perhaps France24 will fix it one day…

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