Samsung Omnia Pro 4 Review
Design & Build
Business centric phones are never the most sleek looking of handsets, and it's fair to say, Samsung have created one of the most dull looking smart phones that we've seen to date. While its angular design may resonate with professionals, we struggled to look past its boring exterior. In Samsung's defense however, thanks to its reasonable 118 x 60 x 12 dimensions, it's extremely comfortable to hold.
As you may have guessed, with the Omnia Pro 4, it's more about functionality than fashion. The handset sports a four-row QWERTY keypad, and although the buttons are crammed tightly together, we found it quite accurate when bashing out messages. Surprisingly, the handset also offers a 2.6 inch QVGA resistive touchscreen, ideal for those of you who prefer to scroll through web pages at the touch of a finger. Despite being resistive, the screen proved highly responsive, and little force has to be added.
OS & Interface
A far cry from Microsoft's more recent Windows Phone 7, Samsung's latest business-focused handset arrives running Windows Mobile Professional 6.5.3. We may not be the biggest fan of the platform, but on this handset, it seems to make sense.
From the easy to use interface, business-folk and general Microsoft lovers will be pleased to see Microsoft Outlook Mobile and Pocket Office onboard, alongside push email, instant messaging, RSS feeds and Windows Live Messenger.
