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Samsung Omnia II & Jet

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The Jet looks identical to the Omnia II on the face, but the key difference is the proprietary Samsung OS instead of Windows Mobile. The TouchWiz UI is upgraded to version 2.0, and some other key software has been updated as well.

Samsung Jet  

The hardware of the Jet matches the Omnia II nearly feature-for-feature, including a large (beautiful) active-matrix OLED display, 5-megapixel auto-focus camera, and standard jacks, including 3.5mm for audio and microUSB for data.

The hardware feels good enough. The back plate sports a smooth glossy finish with a dark red metallic textured surface visible below it. It's an interesting visual effect.

The Jet isn't Windows Mobile, but Samsung has beefed up its proprietary software suite. Powering the new suite in the Jet is a blazing 800 MHz processor.

Samsung Jet TouchWiz 2.0 UI  

The star of this new software suite is Samsung's new "Dolfin" web browser, based on WebKit. Samsung is cleverly spinning a "one-finger zoom" feature as an innovation. In a way, this is another way of saying their phones don't support multi-touch, but for one-handed use, one-finger zooming could be useful. We tried it, and works well enough. You press and hold, a little zoom icon pops up, and you drag up/down to zoom. However, unlike competing browsers, you can't simply double-tap a block of text to zoom right to it. That makes navigating around a web page a frustrating affair with lots of annoying fiddling to get it zoomed right where you want it.

Bottom line, I prefer the Opera browser on the Omnia II, and for some reason the Omnia II has a slighty larger display as well, so while the Jet is nice enough, I'm glad the Omnia II is the one coming to the States.

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