Samsung Omnia Pro B7330 deals & review

The Windows Mobile –driven Samsung Omnia Pro B7330 is another Blackberry-ish upscale handset form the world’s second largest mobile phone maker Samsung. Expanding its Omnia Pro line, it sports the same QWERTY candybar form factor measuring 114.9 x 59 x 10.8mm to make it one of the thinnest though not the lightest at 107 grams but still pocketable. For those who prefer Windows over the BlackBerry OS, here’s a good alternative.

A BlackBerry Alter Ego

The B7330 is your quad band GSM (850/900/1800/1900) radio on 2G and a tri band UMTS (900/1900/2100) on 3G with class 10 GPRS/EDGE data speeds at up to 236.8 Kbps on the 2.5G network as well as HSDPA at 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA at 2 Mbps on 3G. It has WiFi 802.11b/g for hotspot surfing at up to 54 Mbps and supports other high speed local data connectivity options for wired miniUSB 2.0 for up to 57 Mbps and wireless Bluetooth 2.0 for up to 3 Mbps.

It is powered by a 528 MHz Qualcomm MSM721A processor to run the Widows Mobile 6.5 OS if upgraded to it from the previous version that comes out of the box.

A thin body profile gets a perfectly 2.6-inch TFT LCD display with 320 c 320 pixel resolution that’s generous for a Blackberry-type candybar form and comes with 65k color depth that’s all the lackluster Windows Mobile can support. Imaging is as average as anything you can get from an overpriced Blackberry smartphone with a 3.2 megapixel autofocus shooter with geo tagging from its GPS receiver with A-GPS support.

Video recording gets decent VGA resolution at 30fps frame rates. Its front get s secondary 3G video call camera. Getting entertained on the road starts with a stereo FM radio with RDS. You also get the capable media players that support media contents like MP3/WMA/WAV/AAC+ audio codecs and MP4/WMV9/H.263/H.264 video codecs.

With practically unlimited phonebook entries and call records, the handset gets a 256 MB ROM for its system files and a generous 270 MB user-specific on board memory storage that can be expanded up to 32 GB from its microSD support. A powerful 1500 mAh Li-Ion battery powers up the handset with unspecified talk and standby times.

The Samsung Omnia Pro B7330 comes preloaded with document viewers for MS office and PDF files, a MS Outlook Mobile and a WAP 2.0 HTML web browser with Adobe Flash Lite and support for Windows Live IM, Yahoo and AOL.