Samsung i900 Omnia vs. HTC Touch Diamond

Jul 4th, 2008 | By Rosh PR | Category: Gadgets, Hot

Its the world of web and its the world of web on PocketPCs are getting bigger and bigger every other day. Here we present you with a look at two of the new entrants in PocketPC arena.


HTC Touch Diamond	Samsung i900 Omnia

Diamond over Omnia

VGA display (2.8-inch, 480 x 640 pixels)

TouchFLO 3D Home screen (better than Omnia’s Touchwiz UI)

Nicer design

More compact body

Lighter weight

Active magnetic stylus (Omnia has no stylus slot)

Touch-sensitive scroll wheel (better than Omnia’s optical joystick)

Better sunlight legibility (by a small margin)

Standard miniUSB slot (as opposed to Samsung’s proprietary custom plus)

Dedicated graphics chip with 64MB memory

Comes with the amusing Teeter game (uses the accelerometer)

Has pre-installed YouTube client and MP3 Trimmer application for ringtones

Better video playback performance

Omnia over Diamond

Bigger, though lower-res display (3.2″, 240 x 400 pixels)

Has a better, more solid build and finish

Almost double battery life

Better CPU performance (by a nice margin according to software benchmarks)

Quad-band GSM support (Diamond has two versions to cover all the four bands)

microSD card slot (Diamond has none)

8 or 16 GB of storage memory (Diamond has 4GB)

Much better 5 megapixel camera (better processing, higher resolution, face and smile detection, geotagging)

TV-out (Diamond lacks that)

Landscape QWERTY keyboard (Diamond has one but only in browser)

Auto screen rotation is available in all applications and can be switched off

Comes with DivX video support (Diamond has none, but DivX players can be installed)

Has pre-installed a custom Alarms app, a Video editor and a unit converter

With the HTC Touch Diamond we are looking at the third generation TouchFLO UI - a really mature and impressive piece of software. The Omnia and its TouchWiz UI is Samsung’s first attempt in this field, but they’re building on their expertise in full touchscreen feature phones and they have achieved some impressive results too.

In all fairness, the both handsets seem pretty stable at this point so their non-final status is not an issue.