HTC - December 6th, 2010
HTC HD7 reviews
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The HTC HD7 was inevitable. Was it not the first Windows Phone 7 ever rumored? And rightly so. There’s no phone too big or too powerful for Windows Phone 7. In fact, if you ask Microsoft they’d say the bigger the better. HTC – on their part – didn’t have to think too hard. They simply skipped right to number seven.
Key features:
* 4.3″ 16M-color capacitive LCD touchscreen
* Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
* Dual-band 3G with HSDPA (7.2 Mbps) and HSUPA
* Windows Phone 7 operating system
* 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, 576MB RAM, 512MB ROM
* 5 megapixel autofocus camera with dual-LED flash
* 720p video recording @ 25fps
* 8GB of built-in storage
* Standard 3.5mm audio jack
* Standard microUSB port (charging)
* Dolby Mobile and SRS sound enhancement
* Wi-Fi b/g/n
* Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP
* Accelerometer for screen auto rotation
* Office document editor
* Facebook integration and cloud services
* Built-in A-GPS receiver
* Stereo FM Radio with RDS
* Comes with HTC Hub and exclusive HTC apps
* Voice-to-text functionality
* Kickstand with trademark yellow accents
* Great audio quality
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Main disadvantages:
* High screen response time causes visible ghosting
* Non-expandable storage
* No lens protection
* Quite heavy at 162 g (not that we mind)
* Somewhat susceptible to the “antenna death grip”
WP7-specific limitations
* No system-wide file manager
* No Bluetooth file transfers
* No USB mass storage mode
* Limited third-party apps availability
* No Flash (nor Silverlight) support in the browser
* Too dependent on Zune software for file management
* No video calls
* New ringtones available only through the Marketplace
* Music player lacks equalizer presets
* No multitasking
* No copy/paste
* No DivX/XviD video support
* No sign of free Bing maps Navigation so far
* No internet tethering support
* No handwriting recognition support
Alright, one thing we can be sure of – the HTC HD7 is playing strictly by the Microsoft book in terms of hardware. On the other hand, it does look like a simple copy/paste job. You know, WP7 phones have a hard time demonstrating a personality. The HD7 has the extra task of identifying itself as something different from the HD2.