A head-to-head match of the HTC Touch Diamond versus the Samsung i900 Omnia. Both phones manhandled for an extended time and broke down the UI, hardware, features and overall usability.




[HTC Touch Diamond over Samsung i900 Omnia]:
- VGA display (2.8-inch, 480 x 640 pixels)
- TouchFLO 3D Home screen — better than Omnia’s Touchwiz UI
- Nicer design
- More compact body
- Lighter weight
- Active magnetic stylus — Omnia has no stylus slot
- Touch-sensitive scroll wheel — better than Omnia’s optical joystick
- Better sunlight legibility
- Standard miniUSB slot — opposed to Samsung’s proprietary custom plus
- Dedicated graphics chip with 64MB memory
- Comes with the amusing Teeter game (uses the accelerometer)
- Has pre-installed YouTube client and MP3 Trimmer application for ringtones
- Better video playback performance




[Samsung i900 Omnia over HTC Touch Diamond]:
- Bigger, though lower-res display (3.2″, 240 x 400 pixels)
- Has a better, more solid build and finish
- Almost double battery life
- Better CPU performance — by a nice margin according to software benchmarks
- Quad-band GSM support — Diamond has two versions to cover all the four bands
- microSD card slot — Diamond has none
- 8 or 16 GB of storage memory — Diamond has 4GB
- Much better 5 megapixel camera (better processing, higher resolution, face and smile detection, geotagging)
- TV out — Diamond lacks tv-out
- Landscape QWERTY keyboard — Diamond has one but only in browser
- Auto screen rotation is available in all applications and can be switched off
- Comes with DivX video support — Diamond has none, but DivX players can be installed
- Has pre-installed a custom Alarms app, a Video editor and a unit converter
[The deeper match continued here..]