Samsung Omnia Lite B7300. Lite done rite

Martin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:18:09 +0000

For those of you who follow the mobile phone world closely, you’ll know that Samsung have been announcing, revealing and showing off phones all over the place recently. Eager, it seems, to haul themselves back to the forefront of the market after months of slippage, The Omnia won’t be one to catapult them up the league tables, but it’s a decent enough phone nonetheless.

Aiming to be a lighter version of the all-powerful Omnia series, the Samsung Omnia Lite doesn’t excel in any particular department but certainly doesn’t fall short either. The 3.0” display’s not all that hot, nor is the 3 megapixel camera, but it is packing 3.5G, A-GPS, WiFi and up to 3.6mbps on HSDPA. And it’s in the looks department that the Samsung Omnia Lite really improves on the rest of the Omnia range. Where they are mostly bulky and almost brick like (some of them, at least), this is very slim, with nice brushed metal features and a cool patten effect on the back. In fact, at 107 x 52 x 13mm this is one of the smallest smartphones around. And at just over 103 grams it’s also one of the lightest.

The Samsung Omnia Lite B7300 also comes with the latest version of TouchWiz, Samsung’s adaptation of the User Interface that not features on all Samsung touchscreen devices. This is a piece of software that gets better every time we see it, and you’ll no doubt love all the customisable functions it has. Did we mention the 3D multimedia player, multi-push email access, access to the Microsoft Office Suite…

So all in all, things look pretty decent for the Lite B7300. Check out a full Samsung Omnia Lite review here for more stats and figures. And keep an eye out for a Q4 2009 release date.

Samsung Omnia Pro B7610. Shiny bright monster

Martin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:17:59 +0000

Not only does is the screen of the upcoming Samsung Omnia Pro monster-sized (3.5″, 480×800 pixel display, 16m colour WVGA resolution) it’s also monster-coloured. That’s assuming you realise, of course, that monsters are all extremely bright and clearly coloured. All the monsters I’ve ever met have been…

The reason the screen’s so special on this thing is that it’s an AMOLED, which stands for “active-matrix organic light-emitting diode”. As you all knew. The best thing about this new piece of kit is that it is not only ultra thin and bright, but because it doesn’t require a backlight it is low-power and (relatively) low-cost. So expect an impressively juicy display for not a huge amount of money when the Samsung Omnia Pro B7610 gets released sometime in October. At some point this kind of technology will make it to your TV screens too – just picture wafer thin Plasmas hanging from your walls and you’ll see the future is very bright indeed.

Aside from the screen, the Samsung Omnia Pro B7610 smartphone also has a decent sized slide-out QWERTY, 5 megapixel camera, 3.5G support, TV-out, WiFi, GPS and all the other expected features, so it’s going to be a fully fledged member of the smartphone family.

Check out a full Samsung Omnia Pro review here, or a slightly shoddy video below:

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Samsung Omnia Lite B7300. Lite done rite

Samsung Omnia Pro B7610. Shiny bright monster