This week I was able to get my hands on two Windows Phones. It didn't take long to figure out that I had gotten my hands on the best and worst Windows phones ever. On the best side is the Samsung Omnia. What can I say, it's a Windows Phone done right. The hardware is excelent (but that's pretty much most Samsung hardware that I've used) and the software just fits the phone ever so well. The interface is slick, the customizations are well done, and best of all Samsung provides programmatic access to a lot of their hardware. I don't want to say the name of the worst phone, but I'll describe it. Like the Omnia it has an accelerometer but the time it takes for the phone to recognize it was rotated is awful. At times I could rotate the phone and walk through two other rooms before it reacted to the screen being rotated. This phone also has no directional input at all (the Omnia by contrast has a pad that acts as bot a 5-way input and a mouse pad). The battery life in this worst phone is awful and it makes for a bad experience.
I won't be saying anything else about the worst phone, but expect to hear more about what I'm doing with the Omnia in coming days.
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