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Got a Samsung Omnia SCH-i910 for $24

It is ancient by smartphone standards. Phones such as the Samsung Omnia and HTC Touch Pro and Diamond came out shortly before the "great smart-phone jump" when smartphone advancements became extremely quick and brought major improvements to using a smartphone (no more resistive touch screens, super slow ARM 7 cores, and low resolutions).

That being said, I sold my Touch Pro a while back for $50, so half that for the Omnia (that was 100Mhz faster than the Touch Pro) isn't a bad deal. But it will certainly be an exercise in patience at times. (While custom ROMs really unlocked the capability of my Touch Pro, I was rebooting once a day and needing 2 batteries to get through a day).

Anyways, it will take some digging to get your Omnia flexing all your muscles, since the scene is essentially a graveyard at this point. I recommend starting with PPCGeeks and learning the process of getting it ready to load ROMs etc.

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/samsung-omnia/

Good place to start. Best of luck to you.
 
Thanks. I definitely know what you mean by "exercise of patience". I was surprised at how laggy the UI is on the Omnia after being used to a Zune HD. I had mistakenly thought that the phone would be on par with the Zune because they both have 128MB of RAM and ~600MHz CPUs. of course, I didn't think to factor in that Tegra>>>>XScale in IPS and that WinMob is a lot more resource-intensive than the Zune's version of WinCE.
 
I wouldn't say that I got ripped off. At this price point, I had the choice of: a Blackberry 8330 from 300 BC, a generic flip or candy bar phone, or this.
 
Probably. $24 doesn't sound too steep for rapidly ageing technology that runs an inferior software system with less than 5% market share.

Hey, if your budget is that low then I'm sure you can make it do what you need to do.
 
That's about what I would expect my old Omnia to sell for. 😀

And I really don't even want anyone to buy it at this point. And my old Droid (OG) is so beat up I'd feel bad selling it to anyone.
 
i still use my old i910 at home. first off, get rid of the touchwiz interface. theres a way to enable the "today" interface, as well as a much better "today 2" interface. lots of stuff to do with that sucker, even if you leave it at 6.1pro.

and old "how-to"
http://danbeahm.blogspot.com/2009/02/omnia-i910-how-to.html

random decent links from the past...
http://www.modaco.com/category/342/i9x0-omnia-http-omnia-modaco-com/
http://www.pocketpcfreeware.com/en/index.php?soft=31 (use this, youll need it)
http://windows.modaco.com/topic/302740-wm65-i900-dxia5-untouched-versions/page__st__3 (winmo 6.5 files)
 
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