ARMANI

Finally got an Armani.

I've got to say it; it is really sexy.

It's built quality is nice, screen is bright, color tones are ARMANIous, and it's got an Armani logo on it.

Samsung T*Omnia

An upgraded Omnia called T*Omnia(SCH-M490) was launched about a week ago.

Compared to the original Omnia(SGH-i900), it's got better screen and a satelite broadcasting tuner. What is lacking is TV-Out and FM radio. They ARE important fuctions to me but WVGA and WQVGA make a whole lot more differences.

The bottom line is I'm seriously considering about getting one.

(960,000 KRW. which turns out to be about 800 USD. great........)

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Touchscreens

Nowdays touchscreen really seems like the trend.

Even I, the keypad lover already got three touchscreen phones. (glyde has a qwerty keyboard built in but whatever.)

As far as I have experienced, the iPhone has the best touchscreen interface but I think other manufactures are catching up too.

It always feel stupid that Korean companies are only good at catching things up. They never set a trend.

I hope they get better.

Korean IMEI Issues

If you live in a country with GSM based networks, (which will cover most of you) you should know how easy to get a new phone. Buy one, take the battery cover off, and slip a SIM in then you're good to go.

Well, this doesn't apply to South Korea. There are three kinds of networks here.

CDMA, WCDMA, and iDen.

CDMA and iDen has nothing much to talk about IMEI's. What is wrong with WCDMA IMEI is that all of the providers are whitelisting IMEI's. They only allow phones with IMEI's in their database to be registered on the network.

To make it easier, if you bring a WCDMA (or 3G) phone to South Korea and put a Korean SIM into your phone it would NOT work.

Now, if you roaming then your phone would work but local SIM's do not work with your phone even it has supported frequencies, etc or I can say technologicaly suitable, Korean networks would not welcome any foreign phones.

Quite stupid huh.. But believe me they've been doing this for more than 10 years. (including time when they only had CDMA networks. they whitelisted ESN's.)

Got Samsung Glyde

Here it is. My new toy called Samsung Glyde. It's also called SCH-U940 if you like it this way.

It's now connected on SK Telecom network. Voice call, SMS enabled. All of the other function including MMS, IM, web browser - gone.

I surfed the web a little and I've found out that they've got a new update for this phone, version BI29 which adds widget shortcuts and white color scheme.

Mine still has old BF25 with Croix scheme and shortcuts. I'm considering about getting an update. The thing is... How the hell am I going to get it? I'm in South Korea and as far as I know.. no Verizon store exists here.


I'll figure it out anyway.. (of course... in different way than sending the phone back to the states, paying fifty bucks.)