OMG - OmNia Gorgeous!

OMG as in OmNia Gorgeous is all I can say about the new Samsung i900, more widely known as the Omnia. I am not here to write a detailed review about it, I just can't keep the awe to myself and so I wanted to share the best and worst things I learned about the phone. On Saturday, Ed and I met Engel our friend to have an exchange-gift-session of some sort but we ended up buying her Omnia, and this has become the highlight of the weekend.

• First of all, the selling price was set to a whopping PhP 31,999 (from the Samsung store at the 3rd level of Robinson's Place Manila). We got it on installment basis but I was kinda disappointed that they applied the 1.30% interest rate on the SRP, instead of on the remaining balance (Engel made a cash-out of PhP 7k). Dunno if my thinking is right... but you should only be applying interest on what you owe, right? Anyway, since this is a long awaited buy, Engel gave in. (Dapat may commission ako eh, kasi ako pa nagconvince! Hehe)
• The stylus doesn't have a slot that goes anywhere into the body of the phone. Instead... it dangles at the external. Good thing is, it works just like the rabbit antenna of a TV set, where from its entire length, it can be folded down into almost less than half its length. The design of the stylus' cover looks elegant as well. (IF you didn't know the Omnia, you'd think that the thingie hanging out there is a decorative chain of some sort.
• According to the sales people: When you are at a meeting or some place where ringtones or cellular phone beeps are a no-no, and you forgot to put your Omnia into silent mode, you simply have to turn the phone lying face down on the desk or anywhere (as long as it's lying face down) and the Omnia will automatically shift to silent mode. (Galing noh! If only people could do that to babies too! Haha)
• The screen orientation (whether portrait or landscape) automatically shifts when you rotate the phone. So if you're holding your phone in a vertical manner, the screen is upright, and when horizontal, the screen is in landscape mode as well. This is called the accelerometer feature.
• Just like most new cameras in the market now, it has a "smile" recognition feature
• The phone's internal memory is 8Gb, and can further be expanded to 16Gb with an external card! Can you imagine that?! (Kaya lang I learned last night that the phone was showing some funky errors saying that the memory is at a critical level, despite the fact that there was still around 7.x Gb left on the card.) I read some forums last night and it seems to be an error common with Omnia users, but of course, there are ways to fix this. I hope Engel finds the article.
• It comes with Windows Mobile 6.1, and the interface looks very much like my HTC Touch, except for the cutie widgets at the side. (Imagine your Windows Vista widgets, that's how it looks like).
• You can watch movies in DivX format, and all other standard media file types in the market. (Except that, I think I heard someone say that it doesn't have a Windows Media Player).
• It has video recording capabilities, unlike the iPhone.

My final judgement? The phone is the best buy that Engel has ever done! I saw how thrilled and love-stricken she was with this phone and I know this will make her happy until she gets reminded again of the unsuccessful love stories she's been into in the past. I know majority will say that the Omnia was a luxurious buy... but for me... If you have the money and you want to be happy... spend it freely!