Samsung Omnia (i900) review: Samsung's 2008 Windows Mobile touchscreen flagship with a 5 MP camera.
Samsung's Windows Mobile flagship.
The Samsung Omnia i900 was the company's big 2008 touchscreen play on Windows Mobile, debuting an early TouchWiz layer and up to 16 GB of storage. The resistive screen and clunky OS dated it fast, but it was a stepping stone toward Samsung's own platforms.
01Display
44/10044/100 is one of the weaker display results among flagship phones of 2008 — 15 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
02Camera
54/10054/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2008.
03Performance
44/10044/100 puts it above the 42-point average for flagship phones of 2008.
04Battery
56/10056/100 trails the 59-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2008.
05Build
58/10058/100 trails the 61-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2008.
06Value
50/100At 50/100 this is one of the strongest value showings among flagship phones of 2008 — 7 points above the cohort average.
- Up to 16 GB built-in storage — huge for 2008.
- 5 MP autofocus camera.
- Samsung's first TouchWiz layer.
- Optical-mouse navigation + microSD.
- Resistive screen needed a stylus.
- Windows Mobile 6.1 was clunky.
- WQVGA resolution.
- 624 MHz CPU was slow.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 22-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .