Samsung I8700 is Also known as Samsung Omnia 7 (seven), is a smartphone that uses the new OS from Windows for Mobile, the Windows Phone 7. Samsung Omnia 7 comes with today's sophisticated hardware, such as 1 GHz processor, 4" WVGA screen (super AMOLED) etc. Of course this may be a minimum standard to be able to run Windows Phone 7 OS well.
Samsung Omnia 7 Specifications:
Everything looks complete and in accordance with the present trend of smartphone features. A myriad of sophisticated hardware, AMOLED screen is super super pretty, and of course the latest OS. It may be some excess Samsung Omnia 7, but relating to the OS used (WP7), it turns out there are still many negative points about Windows Phone 7. Here's what I took from gsmarena.com:
- Quad-band GSM and tri-band 3G support
- 7.2 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA support
- 4" 16M-color Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen of WVGA (480 x 800 pixel) resolution, multi-touch input, scratch-resistant glass surface
- Windows Phone 7 OS
- 1GHz Snapdragon QSD8250 CPU
- 5 MP autofocus camera with face, smile and blink detection, geotagging, LED flash
- 720p HD video recording at 25fps
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b, g and n support
- GPS with A-GPS connectivity; digital compass
- 8/16GB internal storage
- Accelerometer, ambient light and proximity sensor
- Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
- microUSB port (charging)
- Bluetooth v2.1
- FM radio with RDS
- 1500 mAh Li-Ion battery
- Good audio quality
- Microsoft Office Suite for Mobile
- Zune integration with wireless syncing
- Excellent cloud services integration (SkyDrive, Windows Live, Xbox Live)
WP7-specific limitations
- No system-wide file manager
- No Bluetooth file transfers
- No USB mass storage mode
- Limited third-party apps availability
- No Flash or Silverlight support in the browser
- Too dependent on Zune software for file management and syncing
- No video calls
- No custom ringtones
- Music player lacks equalizer presets
- No multitasking
- No copy/paste
- No DivX/XviD video support (automatic transcoding provided by Zune software)
- No sign of free Bing maps Navigation so far
- No internet tethering support
- No memory card slot
Maybe Microsoft has its own reasons of these limitations. But of course, whatever the reason, clearly a consideration for use or not for a specific community or maybe some users OS Mobile, which of course would prefer the OS with high flexibility and minimal limitations. But we'll see whether the market would be good enough to receive it. Previously we also know that the iPhone (IOS) is also doing similar restrictions, but good enough acceptable to the market.