The Omnia II is frustrating from the second you pick it up to the moment you lay it back on your desk, defeated and distraught. There was so much potential here, so muchobvious potential. Through a series of bizarre decisions and grating software program design, Samsung has managed to squander it. Every. Last. Ounce.
The Omnia's got a veritable arsenal of software tricks behind that spongy little screen, from the capability to broadcast video over DLNA, to the newest version of Opera Mobile, to the semi-lauded Swype keyboard, which lets you sort without lifting your finger, and which takes fairly bold-but generally effective-guesses at what you're gesturing toward. Along with the crowning achievement, the reason that the Omnia II is worthy of a review over the rest of the same-y Windows Phones that are flooding the market right now, is TouchWiz 2.0, Samsung's take on total interface conversion, which reaches far deeper than the original TouchWiz did on thefirst Omnia.
The major reason I only give this phone 4 stars is because of 2 things.
1. The headphone jack is on side instead of the top, so if you plan on utilizing it to listen to music, you will need to get headphones with a 90 degree plug on them.
2. The Touch pro interface is not very good.I found the whole widget setup to be fairly unimpressive and also the 3d cube thing is an absolute joke (it is possible to just push the buttons at the bottom instead of spending time trying to get the cube to spin to the side that you would like).
Normally the interface problem would have been a deal breaker, but you are in luck. I downloaded the SPB Mobile shell replacement and installed that and it's is incredible. Not only does it make the phone much far more functional, but it also makes it look incredible, is easier to edit and add/remove shortcuts, and it reduces the amount of memory needed by quite a bit once you turn off the samsung widget plus interface.
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