My Samsung I8910 Omnia HD is more than 1 year old and now I am in search of a new mobile. Omnia HD wasn’t a bad phone at all; in fact it has a great AMOLED screen, good camera, multimedia capabilities etc. It was the Symbian OS which made the phone a bit unpleasant to use (I am not blaming Symbian – it is a very powerful OS, but it is not built for touch screens. It is just made compatible with touch screens. There is a lot of difference between touch screen friendly and touch screen compatible. Symbian is in the right direction to produce touch friendly user interface and it is evident in the new Symbian 3.0 phones like N8 and C7). Then, I found the HyperX firmware which was a custom firmware built using various releases of the official Samsung firmware. It brought some nice features like kinetic scrolling, portrait QWERTY mode etc. Lack of quality applications was another disappointing factor. Anyway, now it is time to change the phone.

I am closely watching the mobile market and developments for the past 1 – 2 months and I have almost made my decision. I am publishing my thought process of selecting the best mobile. Hope it will be useful to someone who is also planning to buy a new smart phone. Read the rest of this entry »