I first laid eyes on a Samsung Omnia i900 at the Korean company's booth in CommunicAsia in Singapore last June. It was launched here in October, so I was a bit surprised when the Samsung Electronics Indonesia PR company called me and offered an opportunity to review it.

I immediately accepted the offer. Although it is already a few months old, as far as I can recall it is the first Samsung smartphone I have ever tested.

I was given only one week to put it through its paces, so I had to work fast. By the way, it is not really a surprise that Samsung Electronics Indonesia wants to reinforce in our memory the 3G HSDPA Omnia's image as a premium handset.

"It is so comfortable lying here I do not want to get up". Most people have heard this phrase but not many have heard it from someone lying in the middle of a road in the middle of an afternoon. The location was not in the middle of nowhere, it just seemed that way; 150 km from the start and 30 km from the finish of the cycle leg of Challenge Wanaka an ironman length triathlon in New Zealand.