Compare Samsung Omnia2 I8000 Deals
The Omnia2 I8000 is the successor to the popular Omnia and includes some great upgrades. The super sharp AMOLED touchscreen is a great feature and measures a huge 3.7 inches. The Omnia2 is run on Windows Mobile 6.1 and has a great home screen that is highly customisable. The Omnia2 is packed full of features including an 8 megapixel camera with dvd quality video recording, GPS, FM radio and pocket office.
Specifications
Weight: 129gStandby battery time: 2 weeks, 3 days and 22 hours
- 3.5 mm Audio jack
Standard sized audio jack for listening on headphones.
- 3G or UMTS
Works in UMTS frequency channels 800/850/1900/2100 or 850/1700/1900/2100 MHz
- 8 Mega Pixel Camera Phone
The newest camera phones are now being released at 8 Mega Pixels such as the Sony Ericsson C905, so if 5 Mega Pixel phones impressed you, these will truly blow you away! It now could be the time to ditch your digital camera and grab the latest 8 Mega Pixel Camera Phone.
Much like the 5 Mega Pixel mobile phones, these come packed with features assisting the user in getting the best possible photos. Features include Xenon Flash, 16x Digital Zoom and upto 5 shooting modes. These phones are ideal for around the house, on holiday or just out with friends. Easily integrated with online photo gallery services such as the Flickr and PhotoBucket means you can place photos online with the click of a button!
- Autofocus
This phone has an autofocus function allowing you to take pictures without the need to focus
- Bluetooth
Bluetooth allows users to pair with other Bluetooth devices. This allows a wireless connection to a Bluetooth headset or carkit so that you can carry out a conversation without the need to hold your handset. Particularly useful for conversing whilst driving.
- Built-in handsfree
You can use this phone's built-in speaker to listen to incoming or outgoing calls and music handsfree.
- Calculator
This phone has a calculator built in.
- Calendar
This phone has an organiser which includes a Calendar
- Camera
This phone has a built in camera
- Document viewer
Allows you to view Documents
- EDGE for high speed data access
High speed data access
This phone is capable of sending and receiving email
- Face detection
Software in a mobile phone that recognises faces and adjusts the photo accordingly
- Flash
This phone has a camera with an in-built flash
- Flight mode
A safety feature, flight mode allows the user to switch off the mobile function of the phone whilst retaining power and usability of the other functions of the phone such as the organiser or MP3 player
- FM Radio
Allows you to tune into FM Radio channels, the headset is used as the antenna.
- GPRS
Stands for General Packet Radio System. This basically allows you to browse internet websites using your phone. GPRS is mainly used for text based information - getting football results, checking train timetables, reading the news etc. GPRS is not bad at downloading pictures, however it is slower than 3G. You can use GPRS to received and send Multimedia messages such as a text with a picture.
It is advisable to choose a 3G handset for decent download speeds of videos and pictures rather than GPRS, however GPRS is pretty good for text based information and pictures with lower definition.
- GPS navigation system
Sofware that interacts with the Global Positioning Satellite system for pin-point route-finding anywhere in over 100 countries.
- Handwriting recognition
Feature to help generate emails and messages.
- HSCSD
High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data (HSCSD) is an enhancement to Circuit Switched Data, the original data transmission mechanism of the GSM mobile phone system, which is four times faster than GSM, with data rates up to 38.4 Kbps.
- Instant messaging
Instant messaging (often abbreviated simply to IM) offers real-time communication.
- Internet
You can browse the Internet using your phone. The speed of browsing is dependent on the handset in question for example if the phone is 3G then your browsing speed will be significantly higher than a GPRS phone.
- Java compatible
This phone is Java compatible
- Memory expandable via MicroSD card
This allows you to expand the phone's memory using MicroSD cards. MicroSD cards are available in various sizes, the most popular being 1GB or 2GB which can hold thousands of songs and hundreds of pictures.
- Micro USB
Smaller USB, requires an adapter to convert to normal sized USB, this is normally provided with the phone
- MP3 Player
The phone includes an MP3 player which allows you to play and store music. Works in a similar fashion to normal MP3 players in that you can upload Music onto the phone's memory or onto an external memory stick (size of memory slot dependent on phone). Once the music is loaded you can listen to it either on the phone's speakers or using a pair of headphones that is compatible with the handset.
- MP3 Ringtone
You can choose an MP3 song from your MP3 player on your phone and set this as your ring tone on this phone
- MP4
MPEG4 is most commonly used to store digital and digital video streams, including those defined by MPEG. It can also be used to store other data such as still images. MPEG-4 Part 14 allows streaming over the Internet and carries an officiall filename extension of .mp4, thus the container format is often referred to simply as MP4.
- Multimedia Service MMS
Allows you to send and receive picture messages
- Office applications
This phone has Office applications
- Photo/video editor
This phone has a photo and video editor
- Picture blogging
Allows you to create blogs of your pictures
- Polyphonic ring tone
Polyphonic ringtones are ringtones that play several types of tones at a time (up to 70 in recent phones)
- Quadband
- 850 MHz (U.S./Canada/Latin America/Brazil (Only the carrier Vivo)
- 900 MHz (Europe/Brazil/Asia (ex Japan and S. Korea))
- 1800 MHz (Europe/Brazil)
- 1900 MHz (U.S./Canada/Latin America)
- SMS - text messages
Short message service - allows you to send and receive texts
- Solid Bar
This is a solid bar design phone
- Stereo speakers
Plays music in stereo
- Stopwatch
This phone has a stopwatch function
- T9 Predictive Text
You can select predictive text on this phone
- To do list
This phone has a to do list function
- Touch sensitive
This phone has touch sensitive keys
- TouchFlo technology
A method of on-screen navigation using your fingertip rather than buttons or a stylus.
- Trackerball navigation
Small rotating ball for easy thumb- or finger-based direction of on-screen commands.
- TV output
This phone can output to a TV
- USB
A USB port allows you to connect your phone to your computer
- VGA
Maximum of 720 horizontal pixels, the picture quality is basic
- Vibra alert
This function causes the phone to vibrate to alert the user than someone is trying to get in touch. Users sometimes use this function when they are in meetings instead of their ringer.
- Video calling
This phone has a video calling function. When calling someone that also has a video phone, you will be able to see the person if you are in 3G coverage.
- Video player
Plays videos
- Video recorder
Records videos
- Visual radio
Visual Radio is a Nokia-specific service intended to enhance traditional FM radio by adding interactive content over the mobile phone network. Data can include images and text - supplying listeners with Visual Radio handsets with extra data including news, music, travel, sport and extras.
- Wireless LAN WLAN
Allows you to connect to wireless internet connections that are available in some public places such as airports and cafes
