Samsung's Omnia family hands-on, Samsung Jet and Pixon 12 come along for the ride

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Samsung just pulled a bit of a "Samsung" and completely blew out
its Omnia lineup. We just got some face time with the new
Omnia II,
Omnia Pro,
Omnia Lite and the
Omnia-inspired Jet, along with the
Pixon 12 -- which runs the same in-house Samsung OS as the Jet,
but packs a 12 megapixel camera. It's hard not to notice the
stunning AMOLED screens on these phones, especially up against the
dull-by-comparison Omnia Lite with its petty LCD. Unfortunately,
while the build quality is good and the specs are certainly all
there, all the phones were fairly slow in regular operation. The
Jet and Pixon were passable (and the Jet certainly ought to be,
with an 800MHz "application processor"), but we can't imagine
anybody finding any pleasure in the molasses Windows Mobile 6.1
experiences on the Omnia trio. The Jet has a fun little 3D UI
"cube" gimmick, which involves the pointless spinning of a cube to
access different media apps, but most of what we saw was pretty
standard TouchWiz. We did like the speed of Pixon's camera, which
does a Pre-style trick of sending photo processing duties to the
background so you can snap another photo with little delay in
between -- it's also pretty good at auto focus and color accuracy
for a phone, but we won't be trading in our regular point and shoot
in the near term. None of the phones we looked at had network
access, so we weren't able to test out the WebKit browsers, but it
sounds like a major win for the Jet and Pixon. Let's just work on
that Omnia responsiveness a bit, yeah Samsung? Perhaps Windows
Mobile 6.5 (the Omnia II and Omnia Pro are 6.5-ready) will
help.