Samsung Omnia 2 i8000. Look into the eyes, not around the eyes, into the eyes

We were listening to someone from Samsung telling us about the Samsung Omnia 2 recently and we got that feeling you get when you’re trying not to stare at or ask about something. You know the feeling: a girl with an impressive chest area is trying to tell you about saving pandas… or a different girl with what seems to be a bullet wound in her hand keeps talking about the weather. You keep biting your tongue, keep nodding and mumbling things in agreement, but eventually it’s too much, you snap, you find yourself screaming. And this is what we screamed: WE DON’T CARE ABOUT THE DAMN GPS WITH ITS PRE-INSTALLED NAVIGATIONAL SOFTWARE, TELL US ABOUT THE MASSIVE SCREEN YOU IDIOTS.

Because the i8000 has a massive screen (right in the middle of its face, for everyone to see… how could we not stare?) and after deciding not to call security, the nice girl from Samsung told us all about it.

It is, in fact, the biggest screen ever seen on any mobile phone. Ever. Full stop. That one impressed us.

It utilises AMOLED technology. You know, active-matrix organic light-emitting diode technology. Which means that not only is the screen bright, crisp and clear, not only is it not backlit and so not a massive power drain for the battery, it is also super thin, allowing the Samsung Omnia 2 I8000 to measure an almost obscenely thin 12mm.

With 800×480 pixels the Samsung Omnia 2 is fully widescreen and plays back at a DVD-like quality (that’s not to say, of course, that it’s the same quality as DVD, just that it looks like it could be, and for our superficial selves, that’s plenty good enough).

Then she went on to talk about the GPS again, then the Wifi, the new TouchWiz interface and all sorts of other things, but we were lost. Hypnotised in fact, staring straight into the big wide screen of this very attractive phone. Check out a Samsung Omnia 2 review here with less infatuation, more facts, and the video below almost, but doesn’t quite, do justice to the object of our affection.