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Review: Samsung Omnia II

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Camera

The Omnia II has a 5 megapixel camera with flash and video capture. Samsung has loaded its capable camera software on the Omnia II, and that gives users plenty of options when it comes to controlling the camera. For my money, the camera takes too long to launch — about three seconds.

Like the camera on other Samsung phones, touching the screen will bring up two curtains on either side of the viewer with all the controls. These let you switch between still/video capture, different shooting modes (single, continuous, smile, mosaic, panorama, action), scene modes (portrait, landscape, sunset, etc.), the resolution and more in-depth functions. The right side has controls to turn the flash on/off, turn on/off autofocus, and set brightness. It takes about 30 seconds to figure it all out if you're not familiar with this software.

Once you have the options all sorted out, press the shutter button to capture an image. The Omnia II takes about one second to focus and another to take and save the shot.

The video software is nearly identical in behavior to the still image software.

Gallery

There are two ways to interact with your images. The prettier, more fun way is to access them from the 3D cube. This brings up a 3D carousel of images floating like post cards on the display. You can swipe through them to see all the different images. The problem is, you can't do anything in this view your images. You can look, but not touch.

In order to actually do stuff with your images, you need to go into the full gallery app, which is easy to do from the post card view. Once in the main gallery, the options to control your images are practically endless.

Sending them as MMS or email attachments is a snap. Uploading them to photo sharing sites is easy, as is setting them as your wallpaper and so on. The editing functions are solid. You can flip, rotate, crop, and re-size images, as well as alter brightness, contrast and choose from a few effects.

Samsung typically offers good software for its cameras and the Omnia II is no different.

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Samsung Omnia II (CDMA)

3.7" display 480 x 800 pixels
1,500 mAh battery
Memory Card Slot, Headphone Jack (3.5mm)

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