Considering purchasing the Samsung Omnia

[Darkjedi]

Hey guys,

I'm usually in the Touch Pro forum as that's the phone I have, but I was hoping you guys could help me out. My gf is looking to get either the Samsung Omnia or a Blackberry Curve. I've read a couple of reviews and skimmed some of the postings on this forum. I was hoping to hear some first hand accounts of how people feel about their phone.

Even though I love my Touch Pro, I find it extremely unstable. Though I put up with it because I consider it a tradeoff to increased customizability and flexibility to whatever I want to do with it. I'm afraid that the Omnia has similar stability issues because it's still based on Windows Mobile, which is inherently evil. She's played with my phone before and liked it, but she doesn't have to use the phone everyday like me and get utterly frustrated sometimes when it freezes or lags for no reason. I've flashed new radios and ROMs to try and stabilize the platform, but I doubt my gf would want to go through that trouble. I also definitely wouldn't recommend the Verizon version of my phone as if I have trouble with Sprint version which is twice as powerful, I wouldn't even want to know how terrible the Verizon version is.

She basically wants a phone more advanced than a normal flip-phone since she wants to be able to e-mail and surf the internet on occasion. She probably won't be a power user by any means, which is why I recommended for her to get the Curve, but she told me that she really liked the Omnia as well, so I looked into that phone as well and was hoping some of you folk can help! I'm hoping that the stability and smoothness is better on the Omnia as it seems like a pretty nice phone.