HTC Omni Definitely Not Omnipotent
- July 10th, 2007
- 1 Comment
The HTC Touch has been on the market for a couple months now, so it’s no surprise that details of the latest HTC device is circulating the Interwebs. The Omni’s form-factor is reminiscent of a Nintendo DS, but it packs oodles of extras that might entice you to hold off on making a mobile phone purchase in the coming months. It has a touch-screen, 3.1-megapixel camera with LED flash, GPS, and what essentially amounts to a 3.5G PDA. Will it go toe-to-toe with the iPhone? Absolutely not. The touch-screen as witnessed on the Touch is nothing special. In fact, it blows so hard that I’d rather use my old Nokia 8260. Did I mention that it runs on WinMo 6? Keep reading for a lowdown on specs.
* Windows Mobile 6.0 OS
* UMTS/HSDPA connectivity
* WVGA 4″ 800×480 px display, subdisplay
* TV and VGA out
* 256 ROM, 1280 RAM and microSD memory card slot
* Wi-Fi b/g, USB and Bluetooth connectivity
* GPS/A-GPS
* Full QWERTY keyboard
* Dimensions: 130 x 81 x16 mm
* 32 bit Qualcomm MSM7200 Chipset, 384 MHZ CPU Clock
* 800 x 480 px TFT 262 color touchscreen
* GSM850, GSM900, GSM1800, GSM1900, UMTS850, UMTS1900, UMTS2100 connectivity
* CSD, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA data support
* Built-in QWERTY-type keyboard, 65 keys
* SDIO, microSD, TransFlash expansion slots
* USB 2.0 client, 60Mbit/s , USB Series Mini-B (mini-USB) connector
* Bluetooth 2.0
* NMEA 0183 , 20 channels built-in GPS
* 3.1 Mpx camera with LED flash
* 640×480 VGA secondary camera
More about HTC Omni. Touchscreen, 3.1 mpx camera, HSUPA support and other goodies [Unwired View]
jeff_r (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I think you need to clear up the commentary a bit. This device (as most PPC/phones) are geared to mobile power users - not fashionistas and teenagers.
The iPhone is geared to the smartphone/ipod user. In a head-to-head battle of speed, power, features, capability, flexibility, etc. the HTC Omni’s specs trump the iPhone in practically every category. Obviously, the less the device will do, the easier it will be to use (cf. Palm v. PPC).
The Omni appears to do a decent job in the “geek sexy” category, but it’s clearly not competing for folks who want to watch Owen Wilson dance on their phone screen.
The fact that the iPhone doesn’t have out-of-the-box office suite sync, no cut-and-paste or editing of office documents, and no 3G network, basically make it an video iPod with a touchscreen and phone - which is great, if that’s what you want.
If you want mobile productivity, it’s just another pretty face that can’t get the job done.