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Today one of the most reputable newspapers in Sweden, DN, got on the i*-killer train.

In an article and a video, DN’s technology reporter Yvonne Edenholm discusses the Samsung Omnia, a medicre phone at best. Edenholm, however, suggests that the Omnia posts a serious threat to the iPhone. Looking at how she demoes the phone however, I seriously doubt any form of threat. It just goes to show exactly how crappy the UI and the touchscreen of the Omnia is.

Let’s examine it more closely.

• At 00:48: Edenholm drags a widget to some sort of start screen. The animation is extremely choppy.
• At 00:53: After removing two other widgets, she attempts to remove the widget she added at 00:48. Even after several tries the phone doesn’t recognize the gesture as trying to move the widget.
• At 00:55: She adds a clock widget. There is a very visible delay between her dropping the widget and it actually appearing. After appearing, without her tapping it, it opens the clock panel.
• At 01:00: She double taps the clock widget to bring up the clock panel (again), the clock widget moves around in the middle of the double tap.
• At 01:04: It takes several tries to close the clock panel.
• At 01:07: She tries to drag some sort of game widget to the the screen. The phone instead minimizes the widget menu.
• At 01:13: She tries to drag the clock widget back to the widget menu. The clock did not go in to the menu, but instead went behind it.

This is the phone that you think might be an iPhone killer? Are you serious?