[pw-man]

I have watched intently at the recent barrage of android phones, each time considering the switch from my 920 O2, but still I keep it... As others have commented (here and in other forums), the O2 was a well packaged phone from a features standpoint... Silly things like the flash missing in the galaxy s (which otherwise is still my contender for a replacement if it comes to VZW), and cheaper looking devices (I still have this stigma of plasticy HTC devices which I can't seem to shake) and the droid X looks amazing but not sure about the size factor... Sammy still builds some rock solid phones... but the software seems to be there weakness at times...

As for me, O2 is still running, thanks to the hard work of custom roms and the overall level of comfort I have come to with the phone since its day 1 launch...

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[johnchua55]

i think one of the big problems is they keep forgetting it's a phone first !!! a pda second..... h0w can they release a phone with bad/laggy phone software... at the very least if the basic apps were great ...SMS-mms, ph0neb00k, dialer ..... i'd want to keep this phone.

But sad to say even the basic stuff is far from perfected.

[pinkishmilad]

Well I as a former i900 user found enough improvement in i8000 to justify an upgrade and when I look at my phone I still see them all. First off, you got to admit that i8000 is a true multimedia powerhouse. Its audio quality is really good, it takes good pics (as a phone at least though the lens is not really wide enough) and has got a wonderful screen plus many more. However, nothing is perfect. it is true that i8000 is expected to be much faster considering the great specs it's got on paper at least and it's not. However, in my opinion i8000 is not slow enough to be called sluggish really and that's not something I'd say about i900. (I have my phone on high performance always). So for now I think I'll keep my phone for the next 6 months or so.
As for an upgrade, I maybe I'll wait for something really special to come out. Iphone g4 did not look that cool to me. I also find android phones on the market to be too boring. Maybe Dell Streak will be my next phone (tablet phone actually) if it comes out with android 2.2 ForYo or some other fancy machine that really has something big to offer, But for now, Omnia i8000 will do just fine.

[jebise]

i for one will be moving to a HTC desire or nexus one as soon as i can get my hands on it in canada (which may not happen). I'm just sick of winmo, samsung released a good phone but used shitty OS which is why so many devs have went droid and never looked back. If almar can get android working i may keep the phone longer.

I purchased this phone for the all in one package as well, music, games (i though that it would just work didn't research that music boy was i wrong), DIVX and of course phone and SMS. The AMOLED screen and WVGA rez was a big selling point for me and still is, even the 16GB storage. By far still the most all in one package on the market just OS sucks and samsung did a poor half as job with it. RAM is actually decent as even few of the latest phone will come with roughly the same its just samsung did a poor job optimizing it and winmo just sucks.

But this is for sure my last and only samsung phone/winmo phone. Its android (although bell canada has shitty android phone) so even considering going apple iphone 4, which by the reviews is not that great compared to even the O2.

[Asgardi]

"Sure the O2 has some flaws... but there's NO device on the market without flaws."

Yeah. That´s why I purchased Omnia II only less than 6 months ago. It was a decision between Omnia II and HTC HD2 and Omnia II won because of the first Sense ROM beta by rodrigofd came out. It seems to be the correct decision. There are so much great modding going on for HD2 and you can get almost all of that to your Omnia II. 3D drivers are really the biggest issue.

I just went to a store that has every phone out there and tested those through and compared to my Omnia II. The default Omnia II in the store was actually quite crappy compared to my modded one. There was no better phones. iPhone is quite snappy but come on guys... what you get? Only WM-startmenu full of icons and nothing more. No wonder why it´s fast. Because there is nothing. Luckily you can find how many missed calls you have, haha. What comes to android... all android phones are a bit laggy too, even google nexus one that has similar hardware to HD2.

I don´t like WP7 eighter so let´s see what is my next phone. But I think Omnia II is a keeper for me for over a year and I would even buy Omnia II still today because of I know the endless modding possibilities. It´s just 300e compared to iPhone4 750e or 500e HD2 and so on...

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