I have recently bought a Samsung Omnia i900 and I'm having a great experience with it so far. It's an amazing device, with some really interesting features - GPS, Wi-fi, real Internet surfing, multimedia playing (and a decent speaker too!), photo and video camera - you name it.

This Hubpage is meant to provide information about the Samsung Omnia, its benefits and its flaws, its software and accessories - all of it according to my own point of view and my experience with the device - and also a small collection of sites containing more information.

I'm one of those people who really likes to customize and change everything to my liking. So after a couple of days with the Omnia I already had a small list in my head of things that I would like to be different. Because as much as I think the Samsung Omnia is a fantastic phone, I can't really say all that about Windows Mobile - it has its flaws, and some of them can be really annoying. One of the first things that got me looking for alternative Samsung Omnia software online was that all Windows Mobile native apps are designed with the stylus in mind, and I really didn't want to use it. I don't see the purpose of having to use both hands when I could perform most operations on the Omnia with my thumb while holding the mobile in the same hand - if only the applications were ready for that. WiMo apps, with their tiny menus and their skinny little scrollbars, are not. And besides, the guys over at Samsung couldn't figure out a better way to make sure you didn't misplace the stylus than to have it hanging from the top left corner of the phone. Not very practical.

So I went looking for finger-friendly Samsung Omnia software with flick scrolling and I ended up in a sea of amazing applications people all over the world had designed to take my phone to another level. I was like a kid in a candy store. Not only did I get all the flick-scrolling and finger-friendliness I was looking for, I was able to fully customize the look and feel of Omnia's menus and replace the apps I wasn't very happy about. I also found a couple of applications with an iPhone-like interface; I'm not a big fan of Apple in many aspects, but I have to admit their iPhone music app is pretty slick. I also got many other cool and useful tools that really made Samsung Omnia's slogan "more than a phone" a reality. Examples include a GPS navigation program, dictionaries and a last.fm application, which streams directly from the Internet.

Now that my Omnia was ready for the action, I had to find a way to share it all with my friends and family - and, why not, the world. :) So I turned to accessories and, again, was amazed at how much I could do with my phone just by pairing it up with a couple of great extras. Two essentials I'd advise you to get are a Video-Out cable and a bluetooth receiver. Now I can have my music (and videos, photos, etc. - basically all my content) play on my car stereo, my room's high-end speakers, a hotel room's TV or even a video projector. How's that for a portable media center?

Finally, I couldn't forget games. Samsung Omnia's beautiful wide touchscreen is perfect for a bit of fun, and once again the offer is huge. Action games, racing games, puzzles, brain teasers, card games - there's loads of everything. But the coolest ones are definitely those that take advantage of the Omnia's accelerometer - they respond not only to touch but also to movement, which means leaning the phone to the right, left, up or down will affect the game. Kind of a Nintendo Wii-like playability - but you can carry it around in your pocket.