Samsung Omnia Pro B7330 Availability

my comments on B7330

As a current user of i780, the arrival of Omnia Pro B7330, prompt me to switch to this smartphone. Samsung had target both i780 & B7330 as an business phone, while i780 use the W 6.1 (after upgrade) professional, B7330 been non touchscreen, uses WM 6.5 standard.

Due to the different ROM OS used, Samsung make a decision to cripple a important tools for B7330, making it a great handicap, read on to find out.

B7330 come with a 65k colour, large 2.6”, 320x320 square display, whereas i780 with 262k colour, the B7330’s screen seem to be brighter as compare to i780. The phone thickness is only 11mm and weigh only 109g, I consider it quiet nice as compare to i780. The QWERTY pad is much better feel and more responsive too. The backover is easily slide out, user of i780 will know the taking out the backcover will take considerable strength. B7330 use a D-pad so the navigation is much better.
The phone form wise, one can use one hand to do common task on the homescrren, as Samsung provided a customize home skin call WizPro. This homescreen allow ones to place common use applications under Shortcuts. Common application like SMS/Email/Appointment are all within easy reach. A pity you can not customize the WizPro. Of course, you can always download customize homescreen but you will lose those Samsung widgets that come with it.

For multimedia, the phone comes with a 3.2 megapixel but without any flash. It’s a pity, as its make the camera feature less desirable, but of course as a business phone, it secondary. Picture quality is not that good and be warned, focusing is darn slow. The presented video player is meant for playing MPEG4, WMV9, H263 & H264 file formats while MP3, AAC+, WAV & WMA music files are acceptable on the music player of the phone.

Connectivity wise, its has the following, 3G HSDPA, HSUPA, HSCSD, WLAN Wi-Fi, Bluetooth V2.0 with A2DP, USB, GPRS and EDGE technologies to serve the purpose.
Function wise, its of the basic business smartphone, it useful feature it’s the smart reader, where ones can scan name card.

For email setup, the email wizard does a good job in setting up common email client application. For texting, a big issue is the use of the alt key to switch between numeric, Chinese and back to English input. The switch using the ALT key is not friendly at all.

As a business phone, you will expect Samsung to provide the full fledge office suite for use, but instead only a viewer is provide in this case, thus you will not be able to edit any excel or work docs on the go. Instead, one will need to use One Note. A great disappoint in this area.
As with WM 6.5 edition, all come with My Phone backup, which is a useful feature, as it backup all your contact and text mgs, in case of switching or phone or the OS gone haywire, there a safe bet, you will get back your data, provide, MS do not fail us again in their server. Best bet, do your activesyn whenever you can.

Battery life, its can go on for a full 2 days of usage, include surfing and photo taking, thus much better than the i780.
Overall, B7330 feel much better to use as compare to i780, the lack of touchscreen does not make it a poor cousin, but instead the feel and form have a edge over i780. Unless Samsung release an official WM 6.5 pro for i780, the B7330 does win over me….
Cheers.

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