Hands on: Samsung Omnia 7 review

Samsung's take on Windows phone 7 was always going to be tech-heavy and that proved the case.
With a 4-inch Super amoled screen and a cool industrial design, the Samsung Omnia 7 a slightly different take the LG and HTC crowd.
It's not the big gone on the camera side of things like the HTC Mozart, packaging only a 5MP camera with what looks like a pretty small sensor.

But it is that screen that really things pop on this phone makes-it's almost like the feeling you get when you first create a Blu-ray on a good HD telly, everything looks really more that reality itself.
Yes, we have seen the same things at the Samsung Galaxy S, but for some reason that the angular design of Windows phone 7 really brings out the deep contrast and vibrant colors more than on the Android version.

The Samsung Omnia 7 is actually very similar in layout to the Galaxy just beyond its power/lock key is on the right side of the phone, where it is easy to reach without shaking the phone around in your hand too much.
The especially-looking camera is in the same place, although with the Omnia 7 the plastic back has been replaced by a Wave-like metallic option that we really like.

The Windows Phone 7 range has a real premium placed on the high end feeling of the appliances and the Samsung Omnia is one of the best examples of this in our opinion.
The front keys are the most impressive-there is an iPhone-like head home key, which is circular and concave, and the two touch-sensitive buttons surrounding it are very responsive.

If the Windows Phone 7 experience is designed to be virtually identical on most handsets, we have done a thorough hands on review of the separately so you can see how the Samsung Omnia 7 's new fancy interface works:
Samsung has put out some other functionality on the Omnia 7 too-although it's not the most profound there.

For example, the daily briefing gives you access to basic information such as weather and news, useful and easy to look at when you're on the go.
Much, much more use the photo sharing application, making it easy to upload photos to a variety of sources.

There is support for Facebook, Flickr, Friendster-even MySpace is on there, and nobody uses it anymore, unless they are in some kind of backwards time loop, love N-Dubz or really into vampires.

We do not get the chance to test this functionality, but we assume that you will have to come from the camera application for uploading the photos, as the camera mode locked down by Microsoft seems.

The Samsung Omnia 7 is a thin, angular device with a breathtaking display and a true high-end feel to it; we think it could be duking it out with the HTC HD 7 if the headline-grabbing Windows phone 7 handset.

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