Samsung Omnia 7 – Dislikes

After using the Omnia 7 for a month and a half, these are the main things I don’t like about it (in order of most dislike to least dislike)…

  1. No cut and paste.
    So, after I read a page I like, I can’t cut and paste the link and email to my friends or post to Facebook like I did on the Blackberry Storm. I can’t figure out why Microsoft released it without this feature when this was the most laughed about thing about the first generation iPhone! (Rumor is that this will be fixed in the next update in February.)
  2. No Chinese text input.
    Duh! 他奶奶的微软,为什么没有中文输入法?!
  3. Can’t customise the ringtones / alerts / alarm ringer.
    It’s not the default ones are great at all. At least Nokia and Sony Ericsson’s default ringtone are nice. At least give me Windows’ startup.wav, can?
  4. Browser fails acid3 test.
    Doesn’t even get past 12/100 while Blackberry Bold 2 scored 100/100. So… fix that!
  5. Can’t directly manage contacts on phone.
    It is far easier to manage a contact from the mail client it pulled the contacts from.
    Doesn’t anyone writing this program ever have friends on Windows Live Mail having more than one email address? Try linking two Windows Live Mail contacts…
  6. No multi-tasking.
    If I switch to another app and back, it will reload everything. I.hate.waiting, geddit Microsoft?
  7. Fussy about the video format.
    Only plays .FLV and .WMV files, and even so some of them can’t be loaded to the device for unknown reasons.
    And it is rather ‘painful’ converting all those videos I downloaded from the Internet so I can watch them on the MRT.
  8. No file manager.
    Come on, even if you don’t allow me to open them on the phone, at least allow me to use it as a storage medium!

I wished it had Google Map too… but that’s not a dislike, just something I wanted because I liked it better than Bing Maps which came with the phone.


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2 comments

  1. Blackberry bold 2’s browser is so good because it is Webkit-based.
    Webkit is initiated and largely contributed by Apple if you do not know.

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