Samsung B7300 OmniaLITE

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Last month Samsung has launched two Omnia range’s phones, one is the Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO that we’ve already reviewed, and another one is this Samsung Omnia Lite B7300. Unlike B7610, the Samsung Omnia Lite B7300 is a mid-range smartphone that come with a affordable price tag and also a slimmer size. So let’s take a closer look…

Design

Samsung Omnia Lite B7300 is a solely touchscreen smartphone, so you won’t see much physical button on the phone and the design is has nothing much different than other typical touchscreen phone. There is a 3 inches display on the front which can supports 64k colors and has a resolution of 240×400 pixels. It is quite nice for a budget phone to have such large screen. Although it is not an AMOLED screen, but it does give you enough clarity of image and text. The overall design is a bit conservative, clearly that the design was inspired by Samsung Tocco Ultra Touch because they are look so alike. At just 13mm thick and a tiny bit over 103g, it´s also one of the most compact touchscreen smartphones on the market.

OS and User Interface

The Samsung Omnia Lite B7300 is running on Windows Mobile version 6.1, but in some places it probably ship with Windows Mobile 6.5. If you get the 6.1 one, don’t worry because it is upgradeable to WiMo 6.5. For what ever the version of WinMo is, the phone are still implementing Samsung’s TouchWiz Interface version 2.0. However, unlike in Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO, the Samsung B7300 Omnia Lite doesn’t have that cube interface so the dedicated cube button is replaced with a menu button access your personalized menu screen.

Video and Music

Although the Omnia Lite is a budget smartphone, but Samsung does included some features that will only seen on a high-end smartphone. Like this one, the direct DivX video playback, where usually will need to installed a third party application to play it for a WinMo phone. But in this phone, you can play it on the multimedia player. Apart of that it also supports XviD/MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV9 video file. Watching videos on the Omnia Lite is okay, though 3 inches display is a bit smaller. The multimedia player also support MP3/AAC/WMA files. So enjoying music playback is not a problem too. However the quality of the audio is only mid range level. But considered it is a mid-range device, it is still acceptable.

Camera

The camera is a 3.15 mega pixel camera, which operates at 2048 x 1536 pixels resolution.  It’s additional features including auto focus, Geo tagging and smile detection which helps to ensure pictures taken are of the best quality available. The camera also provide many options such as smile shot, multi-shot, Portrait, Landscape, night shot, Panorama, and sports shooting mode. The cam not in a low light environment. The camera also has the ability to capture video at 30 frames per second in VGA quality.

Other

Some other notable features including the TV-out feature allows you to enjoy the still pictures or video on television screen at larger size. For browsing website, the phone offer two options for you – The Opera browser or the new Internet Explore. However, the later one  loading pages is very slow, although it is a newer version. For fast Internet access is provided by HSDPA and Wi-Fi capabilities, but if you have these connectivities nearby, than you still can use the slower connect ivies like GPRS or EDGE.

Final Words

Being a smartphone, the Samsung Omnia Lite B7300 is not up to the standard. However, being a affordable phone, the Samsung Omnia Lite B7300 is much more than that. If you are fancy for a smartphone but don’t want to pay too much, than this phone is may be the perfect phone for you.