Samsung Omnia Pro B7610. Two wrongs don’t make a right

Oh, when will they learn? When will the fiddling, tinkering, time-wasting mobile phone researchers learn that less is most often more. That adding more and more and more features and alternatives not only confuses people, but also wastes valuable research and development time.

Take the new Samsung Omnia Pro as a painful example that’s come our way recently. It’s going to come with not one, but two User Interfaces (UI’s). One called “pro” the other “media.” Although keeping in mind that the launch date is still a fair way away (October 2009 at present), so there’s few other details available (and things might still be scrapped) we think this is a terrible, terrible idea. all things might not be finalised.

We can almost understand the logic – some people will be more media-heavy users, so they’ll want a PMP (personal media player) kind of interface, whereas other will be more heavily business and email-hungry, and they’ll want something more traditionally smartphone or businessphone-like. But, aside from the fact that this is patronising (because business people are too serious to ever use media functions, right, and people who don’t wear suits don’t want easy email access either, right?), it’s also a huge waste of effort. Why not just make the Samsung Omnia Pro B7610 a good phone? Tricky concept, we know, but try it again: it’s one handset, it’s one phone, it’s one device…. so why not just make it good. All-round, every function, every feature: good.

Now, we’re not saying the Samsung Omnia Pro B7610
’s going to be a bad phone, or that this dual identity thing isn’t going to work… we’re just saying it’s probably not going to work as well Samsung hope/pray it will. Check out a full Samsung Omnia Pro review here for all the main specs and features. Or have a squizz at this dull video below.