Gadgetory

hi this is Steve and Scarlett is from pocketnow.com today we're going to take an outside tour of the verizon samsung omnia i 9 to clarify what i said in the unboxing video regarding the i nine tens ppi or pixels per square inch the ppi for the i nine ten is 146 it is less than a ppi of 163 for the iphone as i use the device will have to see if it really makes any difference ok let's start the tour we've got that 3.2 inch 240 x 400 screen right above it we've got the speaker you will notice that unlike the i 900 there's no vga camera on the front of the i nine ten on the bottom of the device we've got the call button on the left and the M button on the right the mechanical d-pad is replaced by an optical mouse which has an embedded button there are also no windows mobile soft key buttons we'll have to see how well that works on the left side of the device we have a hook to attach a lanyard or the stylus attaching the stylist here makes a device a little unwieldy you know even though the stylus is sturdy and it's telescoping it's too bad Samsung couldn't figure out a way to incorporate the stylus in the device but after all this is supposed to be a touch device and so you should need a stylist on the bottom of the left hand side you've got to cover which exposes the Samsung proprietary connector for your USB cable your headset and your FM adapter so I on the right hand side you've got the camera button at the bottom then a rocker switch for volume up and down and then at the top you've got the samsung main menu button which brings up a finger friendly application menu I'm assuming that this button can also be remapped to other uses on the bottom you've got the microphone button on the top you've got the power standby button and right next to it I the reset button which you have to use the stylus for okay let's take a look at the back of the device we have a 5 megapixel camera with zoom and autofocus next to it is the flash this is a high-end camera rivaling any basic point shoot next to the camera we've got a speaker and now let's take a look under the back cover we've got a 1440 milliamp battery and then next to that is a microSD slot which can hold up to a 16 gigabyte microSD along with the internal light gigabytes of storage 256 megabytes a flash and 128 megabytes of RAM you should have plenty of storage for anything that comes up let's try to place the cover back on this is always a little tricky to get the cover on over the camera lens one thing I find strange on the back is this sticker at the bottom it says for best performance do not touch this area when using your phone this is where the antennas are I have to say I have a tough time using this phone without touching that area so that's really too bad that is it for the hardware tour and I'll be back with a look at the included software