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TouchWiz UI gets better, doubles the homescreens

Our Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO runs the latest incarnation of Windows Mobile – version 6.5. We managed to get it updated from the original Windows Mobile 6.1 that it came with. But you’d never guess we’re running WinMo here as Samsung have completely redecorated the place. The only giveaway is the Start button, otherwise the stock WinMo interface is almost completely out of sight.

From the Phonebook to the Settings menu, everything is covered by the custom-made interface. Even the settings themselves have been reorganized to resemble those of the Samsung touchscreen feature phones.

Yes, it’s TouchWiz all over and it’s been upgraded – it has two homescreens, or two user modes if you like, called Life and Work.

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The leisure mode, a.k.a. Life, uses the well-known widget-based, three-pane homescreen that was TouchWiz from the very beginning. The Work mode has more subdued styling than the colorful wallpapers of the Life homescreen and while it uses widgets too, they work in a different way and are generally more practical.

The widgets in Work mode are arranged vertically as tabs on the scrollable homescreen and their order is customizable. Each tab is also scrollable sideways if there is more content that needs to be displayed (there’s an indicator showing the current view of the widget and the number of extra pages in total).
The new work mode of the TouchWiz UI

The Life mode widgets are the usual mini applications that you can arrange freely on the three different homescreen panes. In either mode, if the user needs to place a new widget on screen all they need to do is click the arrow at the bottom left corner of the homescreen and pull the widget tray out. To get rid of an unwanted widget you need to drop it back into the tray.

The TouchWiz approach is quite similar to what we saw on the Samsung I8000 Omnia II.

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The life mode is far more familiar

The Samsung-made main menu is similar to the ones found in their feature phones. It can have up to 10 pages with shortcuts and each page has a title.

In general, it’s a lot more organized than the new honeycomb Start menu of Windows Mobile 6.5. The Others button in the lower left corner brings up a single scrollable page with all the shortcuts not in the main menu.

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Pretty much all of the interface is customized this time

For multitasking, Samsung have provided two separate tools. The first is the Task switcher, which you can open by long-pressing the center key or by the dedicated button in the main menu.

It is very convenient for switching between apps and has two view modes – grid and a horizontal string of pages with nice transitions. It also offers basic controls for the music player. The one gripe we have with the Task switcher is that the long press required to start it is way too long.

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The task switcher has pretty neat looks

There’s also a Task manager that displays more information about programs (RAM and CPU footprint) and can also display all the running processes.
Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO task manager

The lock screen has a slider at the top of the display. Sliding it left or right unlocks the phone, but there’s another feature of the slider – if you have missed calls, their number is displayed on the slider.

Tapping it, reveals a second slider, which brings you straight to the cal log. Or if you have a new message, the second slider brings up the Inbox.

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At the bottom of the lock screen, just bellow the time and date, any scheduled appointments from the calendar will show up.
The lock screen

There are two back buttons. The center key on the front switches between the currently active app and the main menu. There is another one, on the hardware QWERTY, which serves as a confirm button. The difference is that it actually closes the app, instead of just switching to the menu.

There is another convenient feature on the B7610 OmniaPRO. The Composer shortcut gets you straight to business – it launches a screen with shortcuts to get you directly to writing messages, making calendar entries or notes, or running a search.
The Composer is very convenient

Overall, we’re very pleased with this latest incarnation of TouchWiz and especially the Today plugin used by default for the Work mode. It can be easily fine tuned and presents information in an orderly and easily accessible manner, which is what really counts for business users.

Peeling off the TouchWiz skin

The Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO is a PocketPC and there’s no away around it. Sooner or later, you’ll bump into the cold reality of Windows Mobile.

It’s the latest WinMo available, but as you’ve probably heard time and again Windows Mobile 6.5 is just a spruced up version of 6.1. Prettier, more touch-friendly UI controls do not remedy the underlying problems with usability.

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We will have a quick glance at it here, but if you want a more detailed version of this part you can also check out our Windows Mobile 6.5 review.

The first change introduced by the new OS is the scrollable homescreen. The different items in the list are also scrollable sideways, giving you more functionality per line. For example, scrolling the Getting started item sideways allows you to set the clock, email account, device password, Bluetooth, custom wallpaper, custom ringtone, upload music and finally even remove the Getting started item for good once you’re ready setting up the essentials.
The homescreen is pretty functional now

The next major change is the new Windows Mobile Main menu. It comes in the honeycomb pattern that’s supposed to boost touch-friendliness.

In the new main menu you’ve got all the installed programs plus shortcuts to the settings menu. Unlike the Omnia II, where the settings menu looked just like the main menu, on the OmniaPRO it is always covered by the Samsung TouchWiz and looks exactly like on any of the company’s feature phones.

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Windows Mobile 6.5 main menu

The perfectly flat structure of the Main menu can surely get a bit clumsy in time due to the huge number of icons piling up, but still we’d prefer that over the confusing experience that so many Widows Mobile new adopters have had in the past.

There are also some other minor changes such as larger font that allows for more thumbable operation in most menus and the option to alternate tabs by simple finger sweeps wherever Windows offers you tabbed screens. You no longer need to aim for the tiny titles at the bottom of the screen as on the WinMo 6.1 handsets – you just sweep your finger across the screen and the next tab opens instantaneously.

The ARM 1176-based CPU by Samsung clocks as high as 800MHz and allows the OmniaPRO to offer great performance, even with the high resolution display.

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We used the Spb Benchmark software to test the Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO performance. Understandably, compared to the OmniaLITE, it was a bit behind in the graphic part of the test – it has four times as many pixels to draw on screen. Memory speed tests were mostly a draw, but strangely, the OmniaPRO lost in the CPU benchmarks. We ran the tests several times and ended up with the same results over and over again.
Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO results • Samsung B7300 OmniaLITE results
Acer neoTouch results • HTC Touch Diamond results

Excellent phonebook

Even way back when the WinMo phonebook was one of the unfriendliest platforms one could imagine, the phonebook did an excellent job. Contact management has always been one of the strong points of the OS having its roots heavily in PDAs with unlimited phonebook capacity and brilliant synchronization options. But it’s all the more sweeter now that it has the looks to match.

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The phonebook application of the Samsung OmniaPRO has a nice and simple interface and it is clear that it was developed with touch-operation in mind. The graphics are nice and navigation is intuitive enough to make sure your work with it is trouble-free.
The OmniaPRO phonebook

TouchWiz UI also has editing contacts completely customized. It gives you a nice and simple interface, similar to the company’s feature phones. You have a plethora of available info fields but no option to rename any in case something has been missed – not that there ever was an occasion when we felt that was the case.

When viewing a contact, there is a shortcut in the context menu that takes you to your recent calls with the person in question. You can also add it to the reject list or the speed dial numbers straight from there.

Finally, if you are into grouping your contacts – the B7610 OmniaPRO has that covered too. The first four groups are pre-configured, the rest left to your imagination and specific needs.

Telephony: nothing missing

Samsung made it clear with the previous Omnia handsets that telephony was never compromised, despite the fact that the extra features are somewhat becoming the main reason for buying a mobile phone. The B7610 OmniaPRO has excellent in-call sound and no reception issues.

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The phone application offers Smart dialing, which means you will hardly ever need to go to the Contact list in order to dial a number. There is also the option to record a conversation.
Making a call on the Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO

The built-in accelerometer gives the OmniaPRO the cool feature to mute the ringer by simply turning the phone face down on the table. Turning it face up starts the ringer again. The proximity sensor makes sure there are no accidental presses during a call.

The Call log on Windows Mobile devices offers practically unlimited entries. Samsung also pimped up the looks and added the nice extra sorting options. You can sort the entries alphabetically by name or by frequency of occurrence.
The call log

We also conducted our traditional speakerphone test to round off the phone part of the OmniaPRO review. It turned out disappointing – it achieved only an Average mark. This means we’ve seen (or rather heard) a lot better.

More info on our test can be found here.

Messaging is king

Messaging on the Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO is well heeled in terms of software. The handset can manage SMS, MMS and email. SMS and MMS share an inbox and a nice message editor.
The Inbox • Composing an SMS

The email editor has also been nicely skinned by the TouchWiz UI but there are no major changes in terms of functionality.

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Setting up your email is easy as it is on most of the latest mid or high-end phones. You type your username and password and all the other fiddly options are configured automatically.
We had no trouble checking our email on the OmniaPRO

As to the available text input options on the OmniaPRO, it’s clear that the weapon of choice is the hardware QWERTY keyboard. We looked at it in the hardware section of this review, so here we’ll cover the software keyboards.

The traditional WinMo QWERTY keyboard is of course included, but it’s not a real option – the keys are too tiny for even the stylus. The Samsung QWERTY keyboard is much better with its ample sized keys.

It doesn’t work in landscape mode though. You can trick it by sliding out the hardware keyboard, which forces landscape orientation. But it becomes immediately clear why it’s not available by simply turning the phone – it barely leaves a single line of the text box visible on screen.

Of course, the usual way around this is to have the landscape QWERTY appear in a new screen, but this solution is limited too – for example, the web browser can’t offer suggestions because the text is entered in a separate window. All in all, a landscape on-screen QWERTY is not much of an option on the B7610 OmniaPRO. But it wasn’t badly missed.
There’s no landscape QWERTY on the handset

Good ol’ handwriting recognition is available too. The phone does a marvelous job of recognizing the letters and symbols we scribbled even when we used our fingers. And of course, the stylus makes it a lot easier.

The camera does a nice job

The Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO is capable of capturing 5 megapixel photos and D1 video clips. There is dual LED flash to assist with low-light pictures and videos.

The camera user interface is exactly the same as on its Omnia II sibling. Comfortable and nicely touch-optimized, it has most of the controls you’ll need in the two vertical bars on each side of the viewfinder.
The camera user interface

The basic options are here – ISO, white balance, default storage, stabilizer, etc. WDR is available, which continues to make its way into many recent Samsung cameraphones. You can switch the default storage between the phone memory and the microSD card. Hip camera features like geotagging, face detection and smile shutter are also on board.

Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO pulls off decent image quality with a good amount of resolved detail and reatively noise-free photos. However the contrast is rather low and brighter areas are often overexposed. On the upside, there is a good balance between the noise reduction and sharpening algorithms, which doesn’t blur out the details and doesn’t oversharpen the edges either.

Synthetic resolution

We also snapped our resolution chart with the Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO. You can check out what that test is all about here.
Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO resolution chart photo • 100% crops

Video recording

As far as video recording is concerned, the OmniaPRO can offer D1 resolution (720 x 480 pixels) at 30fps. There is also support for slow-motion QVGA videos at 120 fps.

The camcorder interface is identical to the one of the still camera, except for the fact that some options have been disabled. Pity one of them is anti-shake which would have been really useful here.

Unfortunately, the videos are not as nice as we expected. Compression is waaaay too much, which makes talking about image quality pointless. The so called “slow motion” video capture was a disappointment too – it is limited to QVGA resolution and the frame rate was very low.

Still D1 resolution video recording is quite rare in WinMo devices so we’re willing to let that one go without serious grudges.
OmniaPRO in camcorder mode

Here are the sample videos: D1@30fps sample, a VGA@30fps sample, and a QVGA slow-mo sample.

Connectivity could have been better

When it comes to connectivity, the Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO is pretty much as well geared as a handset can be – HSDPA 3.6 Mbps, Wi-Fi, stereo Bluetooth. The lack of faster HSDPA and complete lack of HSUPA are a bit disappointing – the Pro is practically identical to the mid-range Samsung B7300 OmniaLITE.

The network connectivity options of the touchscreen handset include quad-band GSM support and dual-band 3G (900/2100 MHz). In case you are wondering what bands your regional 3G network supports you can check out our Worldwide Network Bands distribution database.

USB 2.0 is supported as well through a microUSB port. When connected to a computer, the OmniaPRO automatically connects in either ActiveSync or Mass Storage mode – whatever you preset in the Settings menu. Unfortunately, there’s no option to be prompted every time you pair the handset to a computer.

The OmniaPRO has a microSD card slot to expand the 2GB internal memory. Cards up to 32GB are supported, but unfortunately the card slot is under the back cover.

DLNA and TV-out boost the capabilities of the OmniaPRO – for example, you can view photos from the phone on a DLNA-enabled TV set. Or you could use the OmniaPRO to imbue an older TV with DLNA powers through the TV-out. At any rate, the media connectivity options are thoroughly covered.

Browser: Internet Explorer Mobile vs. Opera Mobile

The Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO comes with a couple of excellent browsers preinstalled to make best use of its rich connectivity. You get Opera Mobile v9.5, plus the new version of Internet Explorer Mobile courtesy of the WinMo 6.5 update. The IE Mobile is this time actually good for something unlike its previous iterations.

Both browsers are supposed to support Flash (we’ve seen it on other phones) but our OmniaPRO had issues with it. Namely, no Flash content was displayed at all. It seems the Flash Lite plugin was missing – we tried installing it but that didn’t help.

Opera Mobile v9.5

If you have been keeping track you would know that the Opera browser is extensively touch-optimized and draws inspiration from the iPhone’s Safari. The browser has matured and now exhibits no rendering bugs.
The Opera Mobile v9.5 Web browser

Opera Mobile v9.5 is heavily optimized towards vertical scrolling you can scroll complex pages without missing a beat. Panning sideways is a little slower – a checkerboard pattern appears for a moment before the content is drawn, but this lasts for only a moment so it’s no big issue.
Opera Mobile in landscape mode

Zooming in and out is also very fast. You can use the one-finger zooming pattern that we described in the gallery and it works like a charm much like it did on the original Omnia. Double tapping is also very accurate as it zooms in to where you tapped, eliminating the need for much panning.

The WVGA resolution of the ample display helps navigation a great deal – at the minimum zoom level text is readable enough for you to find the section of the text you’re interested in and double tapping takes you straight there.

In landscape mode, the minimum zoom fits most pages, which is extremely convenient as it gives you a nice overview of the site, while the fine text still remains readable.

The browser orientation is changed automatically of course, thanks to the built-in accelerometer.

Internet Explorer Mobile

The latest version of the Internet Explorer Mobile web browser has received a nicer touch-optimized interface and way cooler design. It shares most of the Opera Mobile goodies, like kinetic scrolling.

With the high-res screen we were very comfortable using the desktop mode as web pages look much more natural that way.

Browsing GSMArena.com on the Internet Explorer Mobile

Zooming though is best done with the double tapping on the IE. It works like a charm, though we would have appreciated the one finger zoom, like Opera’s.
Internet Explorer Mobile in landscape mode

Instead, you have to go through the menu or hold you finger over the screen and go through the context menu to make a slider appear. You can then use it for controlling the zoom but there is no Fit-to-screen mode.

A flaw of the IE browser is the fact that it doesn’t automatically rotate the pages with the built-in accelerometer. One would think that this is the easiest thing for the developers to do but they obviously saved themselves the effort here.

Lack of URL suggestions as you enter an address was a letdown too. The only help you get is suggestions of the currently typed address with automatically appended .com, .net, .org, etc. The lack of a “Search on page” option was also quite annoying.

Panning and scrolling isn’t as smooth as on Opera Mobile, though unlike it, panning sideways doesn’t show the checkerboard pattern. The high resolution screen fits plenty of text landscape, but it’s quite annoying to have to wait for the checkerboard sections to be rendered and displayed.

Organizer is skinned much like everything else

Windows Mobile offers several time-management features and all of them are easily syncable with desktop MS Outlook. With B7610 OmniaPRO, the old WinMo Calendar is gone and has been replaced by the Schedule app. It’s the same as the Touch Calendar we’ve seen before.

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The Schedule application is extensively touch-optimized and feature-full. It offers daily, weekly, monthly and even yearly and agenda views but there are no different appointments available for setting up. Instead you get a single appointment item that you can place in different categories but you always get the same fields.

You can filter events by categories if you wish and each category can have a different color. There’s no support for cutting, copying and pasting of events though. Any of the available view modes can be set as default and you can choose the first day of the week to be either Monday or Sunday. The default WinMo calendar is available as well, if you’re more comfortable with it.
The Touch calendar a.k.a. Schedule • The old calendar, just for laughs

The Tasks application allows you to add tasks and assign them priority. Unfortunately, it is one of the places where the old WinMo interface breaks the surface – no glossy UI or touch-friendliness here.

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The Notes also come in handy, as you can either type or directly write the text down on the screen. It too is the stock app, but there’s an alternative called Memo (previously called Smart Memo), which has received the TouchWiz treatment. You get different colors and brush sizes plus you can zoom in and out of those notes. You can even save them as JPEG files or send them over MMS, email or Bluetooth if you want to.

The Voice Recorder and the Calculator need no explanation – their interface is only slightly polished, compared to previous-generation WinMo devices.

The Alarm clock allows you to set a vast number of alarms to act as either wake-up or reminders. The dedicated wake-up alarm has three slots, which should allow you to wake up at different time in the different days of the week.
Alarm clock application

You can however set as many additional alarms as you want, each with its own name, repeat pattern, snooze time and ringtone. You also get to pick the volume and whether or not the alarm should power the phone on if it happens to be switched off.

The other extra features of the clock application are World clock application that can keep the time in as many time zones as you want, a stopwatch and an anniversary list. In the anniversary list, you can enter as many anniversaries as you want and optionally set up an alarm for each one to act as a reminder on either the day of the event or up to 7 days before it.
The clock app extra features

The final item in the organizing package is the neat and simple Unit Converter that offers weight, length, area, volume and temperature conversions. There is also a currency converter and a neat Tip calculator.
The unit converter also features a tip calculator

The File Manager deserves some attention too. It’s a TouchWizified file explorer, which means it’s easily thumbable, has an alphabet scroll and offers a tree view. The tree view is a nice option and will make navigating folders a more familiar experience to a lot of people. Aside from that, it covers all the file and folder management features.
The Document Manager offers tree view

Document editor as good as usual

Among the other WM core applications is the Office Mobile package featuring support for viewing and editing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. With the latest version of Office Mobile, you also have the OneNote application. Office 2007 documents are supported (e.g. .DOCX, .XLSX) and the format is used by default when creating new documents.
Document editing is also available on the Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO

Not only are they very good for viewing your office documents straight on the phone, but they also offer editing too. There are no extra charges – you are good to go straight out of the box.

Thanks to Adobe Reader LE, there is also support for viewing PDF documents. We are extremely pleased with the performance of the OmniaPRO in this area, as opening and handling PDF documents is usually rather slow on most handsets.
PDF files are also supported

The 3.5″ screen offers plenty of room and the high-resolution means that text is readable even at low zoom levels. The B7610 OmniaPRO is an excellent device for document handling on the go.

Applications aplenty

The Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO has got plenty of preloaded applications, outside its organizing and multimedia packages too. There’s the regular stuff such as an RSS Reader and a Streaming Media manager for a start but there’s some new cool stuff also.

The RSS Reader application is rather self explanatory. It gives you quick access to RSS feeds for staying on top of the latest news and content on your favorite websites. The Podcasts application allows you to subscribe and download video and audio podcasts of your choice.

The Digital Frame application allows you to use the B7610 OmniaPRO as a digital picture frame with content of your own and highly customizable styles. The app is nothing special, but still a welcome inclusion – AMOLED photo frames are still rare and expensive.
The OmniaPRO used as a digital frame

You can have music playing in the background too and, if needed, event alerts such as incoming message or alarms can be suppressed when the Digital Frame is running.

Another application is the rather handy Search Phone, capable of searching throughout applications and the whole file system. You have the option to set filters so that the application searches only in the places you need.

In fact the OmniaPRO is equipped with two search applications – the other is named Smart Search and adds some nice graphics and transition effects to the whole searching thingy. Oh, and it’s pretty good at actually finding what you are looking for too.
The Search phone and Smart Search apps

The MSN duo of applications – Money and Weather – is also here. Those are convenient tools for retrieving weather and stocks updates straight from you handset.

Microsoft’s Windows Marketplace for Mobile is an integral part of the WinMo 6.5 experience. The application distribution solution should help third-party applications find their way from developers to the users’ handsets by basically cutting off the middle man.

The interface of the new Marketplace application is pretty straightforward – it gives you shortcuts to the most popular applications, the most recent ones and category view. There is of course a search box too to make things easier as the number of applications grows.
The Marketplace is growing bigger and bigger

As of now, there are over a 1000 apps available within the Marketplace, which is a lot more than when the service launched. There are free ones, but there are also a disturbingly many apps that command 30 dollars – and we’re talking stuff that would hardly cost more than 5 dollars in the iPhone app store.

The Marketplace is nicely setup as well, offering user reviews, screenshots and, as usual, individual ratings. It’s even accessible through a desktop browser, which is more convenient. If you buy an app through your computer, it will be downloaded the next time you start the Marketplace client.

GPS would be better off coupled with a satnav app

The Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO features a built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS support. The assisted GPS allows for much faster satellite lock upon cold start thanks to current satellite data downloaded over Wi-Fi or the 2G/3G network.

Unfortunately, there is no navigation software preinstalled on the OmniaPRO so you will have to get one at your own expense. The free Google Maps app is included but that’s it really.

As usual, GPS navigation software is a regional thing and on your local market the OmniaPRO can be pre-bundled with some sort of satellite navigation.

Final words

At the end of the Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO review we’re about to part ways with one solid device – the specs alone will tell you that much. But having held it in our hands we can safely confirm.

Its TouchWiz user interface is so far reaching, most of the time you can forget that you’re using a Windows Mobile device. The excellent assortment of preloaded apps means you won’t have to struggle with the aging interfaces of the default apps.

The dual-homescreen bit is a great addition to the UI. Nokia has a similar feature, but that is reserved only for its business-minded Eseries. And the B7610 OmniaPRO is the epitome of a business device.

We can go on heaping praises on it but there are a few things that disappointed us. The plastic that the OmniaPRO is made of is no match for the metal casing it should have had. And the OS-related color support limitation leads to heavy banding on the screen, which really spoils the pleasant experience of a WVGA AMOLED display. Plus the 6.5 version of WinMo was not as snappy as ver. 6.1, we tested earlier.

Still, the B7610 will prosper in a business environment. The Office support is the best available on a mobile device and syncing options

The roomy, four-row keyboard is comfortable and easy to get used to. The touchscreen is very sensitive as well. Shame it’s not a tilt screen though.

But when it comes business, Samsung have got a whole family full of pros. Through out this review we’ve referred to the Samsung B7610 just as OmniaPRO, but that’s not quite correct. Including the B7610, the “OmniaPRO” moniker covers three phones and two form factors in total:
B7320 OmniaPRO • B7330 OmniaPRO • B7610 OmniaPRO

Its HTC-made nemesis is called HTC Touch Pro2. It is a WinMo-powered phone and its display is bigger by a hair at 3.6″ with the same resolution. TFT vs. AMOLED doesn’t matter much because of the 16-bit color resolution dictated by the OS. The CPU is slower but the RAM is only slightly bigger. But you get TouchFLO UI, which is still the king of custom interfaces for the Microsoft OS. Oh, and the QWERTY has five rows.

The “other white meat” here is the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2. It’s mostly on par with the HTC Touch Pro2 in specs, except the smaller screen – 3.2″. The 8MP camera trumps all the other alternatives we offer here. The modifications to the stock interface are not very extensive though, just the X-Panels.
HTC Touch Pro2 • Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2

The menacing Motorola MILESTONE (or DROID in the US) also looms over the OmniaPRO’s head. It’s got a bigger screen with slightly more resolution (3.7″ and 480 x 854 pixels), which is an excellent viewport to the MILESTONE’s strongest point – Android 2.0 Eclair.

The Nokia N97 duo also makes bid for the most popular smartphones with a slide-out QWERTY and a touchscreen. We won’t list their specs as the N97 mini review is still fresh. But for Symbian users, the N97 team is the smoothest transition to touchscreen-land.
Nokia N97 • Nokia N97 mini

And finally, we’re pretty sure that power users are saving their cash for the Nokia N900. The Maemo OS is the most successful mobile Linux so far. We know, we know… Android uses the Linux kernel but even Google say that it’s not Linux. Maemo is on the other hand is embracing its roots and your favorite open source apps are a quick port away.
Nokia N900

Whew, that’s quite a long list. And of all the phones listed, probably none will achieve the status as the QWERTY phone. But for many users, seeing the Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO will be a love at first sight experience. Ignore the nay-sayers – the TouchWiz and WinMo combo performs excellently and for a business people with gadgety inclinations will love the keyboard, the smooth syncing and the excellent Office support.