HTC HD7 Windows Phone (T-Mobile)
HTC HD7 Windows Phone (T-Mobile)
- 3G-enabled Windows Phone 7 smartphone with extra-large 4.3-inch touchscreen for fast typing on virtual keyboard and excellent multimedia
- Windows Phone 7 OS provides easy access to social networking, personal/corporate e-mail, office apps, Xbox LIVE games, streaming media, and more
- 5-megapixel camera with HD 720p video capture; 16 GB internal memory; Wireless-N Wi-Fi; Bluetooth stereo music
- Up to 6.3 hours of talk time, up to 310 hours (12.9 days) of standby time; released in November, 2010
- What’s in the Box: handset, rechargeable battery, international charger, USB cable, wired stereo headset, quick start guide, user manual
HTC HD7 Windows Phone (T-Mobile) One of the world’s first smartphones using the Windows Phone 7 operating system, the HTC HD7 for T-Mobile pairs rich mobile multimedia features with a 4.3-inch touch display–the largest screen available on a Windows Phone 7 handset in the U.S. Its size not only gives you an extra-large virtual keyboard, but also allows you to enjoy your favorite videos and movies in cinematic style. It’s also powered by a blazing-fast Qualcomm 1 GHz Snapdragon processor for a fast mobile data experience.
The HTC HD7′s large 4.3 inch screen makes multimedia come to life (see larger image). The HTC HD7 delivers advanced phone features including GPS functionality with access to turn-by-turn navigati
List Price: $ 549.99
Price: $ 549.99
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Got my HD7 on the UK launch day! You will not be disappointed!,
Had this phone for a few days now, not going to blab on in too much detail, all I will say is don’t listen to all the bad reviews out there; try it for yourself!
I’ll split a few of my favourite things up into bullet points:
- The phone is incredibly quick booting.
- The UI is beautiful and so smooth to use in comparison to other smartphones.
- The build quality is solid and it feels like a good phone in your hand with the metal surround instead of cheap plastic.
- The apps already on the store are of good quality and run very well on the phone, expecting a load more on the US release.
- Skydrive integration with the Office Hub and your photo’s is very useful allowing super quick upload to the cloud.
- The one touch camera launch from the lock screen is very handy & the flash is super bright with double LED.
A few people have mentioned it doesn’t have an AMOLED screen but for me the screen seems very good quality and is very nice to use with it being 4.3″ it gives plenty to look at but this is just my preference.
Only real bad points at the moment are the lack of apps which should be fixed by the US launch as mentioned above and a few little buggy issues but nothing major as im guessing these will be fixed ASAP.
Liam
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|Exceeded my high expectations,
I’ve had the HD7 for about 10 days, now, and am extremely pleased. My previous smartphone was a Blackberry Curve, which was a great phone when I bought it, but it had gotten pretty out-of-date. But my university has a contract with ATT, and my RIM was with T-Mobile, and we never got the Blackberry to sync with the Exchange server. So I decided that my next phone would be a Windows phone, but held out for WP7.
I’m thrilled with the easy integration with the Exchange server. All I had to do was enter my network ID and password, and the Exchange server name, and it immediately synchronized. You do this by choosing manual configuration. The phone also keeps track of my Hotmail and Gmail accounts, but allows me to keep them separate, which is good. My Outlook calendar has its own hub on the start page, and when I come out of stand-by the phone automatically displays my next appointment on Outlook. You don’t have to sync with Exchange on you desktop or laptop, the phone syncs automatically over the phone network.
I really like the People Hub. It synchronizes my contacts across Facebook, Twitter and my Outlook address book. I’ve pinned my wife’s icon to the start page, and with one click I can choose between calls to her cell, to home, text to the cell, email, or checking her last Facebook posting. Same for my kids.
There are great Facebook and Twitter apps available that do everything I want very easily. Also very satisfied with the weather, news, and tech news apps I’ve downloded. I’ve also added a really cool flashlight app that has my friends with iPhones jealous.
I was surprised to find an Office hub. It has mobile versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. I can open all the attachments I receive by email, and can even edit them and email them. There is an Adobe reader, as well, for PDF. The PowerPoint slides are very clear, and you can zoom them, as well. Haven’t tried to connect to an external display, but the output port is micro USB, so it should be easy.
The Pictures hub is really interesting. Not only can I use the Zune software interface on my PC to move pictures from my PC to the phone, but the hub also consolidates pictures from Facebook and I can browse my friends Facebook pictures from it, as well.
The phone comes with IE as the browser, but I have no complaints. It’s quite fast, though it doesn’t support flash, yet. Click on the hardware search button and if I’m on the start screen I go to Bing, but if I’m on the web it goes to Google. I’ve also added a Google search app that I’ve pinned to the start page.
The maps are beautiful and well integrated with the GPS, so it’s easy to locate yourself on a map of where ever your are, with good search options for local search. Much superior to the map/search integration on my old Blackberry Curve.
I’m not a gamer, but had no trouble finding Tetris, Solitare and Blockbreaker apps.
Overall, I give the phone 5 stars. It was worth the wait. It does everything I had hoped and has even exceeded by highest expectations. I’m looking forward to the first upgrades, as I do miss the cut-and-paste and Flash. But I’m quite happy with the phone and will gladly wait.
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|Extremely Impressed,
Ok I was originally skeptical about how this OS would turn out. But I have to say MS did a great job here. There is much to love with this 1.0 version of the OS. Some skeptics were saying it was too late to play catch up. Well they are wrong and all i can say is that the OS is beautiful and flows like a dream from one transition to the next. I find myself just flowing along as I check my facebook, email and news feeds etc. The live tiles are an excellent addition and make the phone feel truelly alive like a personal assistant rather than a device you make work for you. Initial claims by some tech sites that apps load too slow and that the OS is buggy are false. There are so many features here I could go on and on about how it all works together to make all of your services feel as one. At least take my advice and play around with one for a bit you will walk away with a good feeling for the product.
As for the hardware ,I think pretty good the large screen works well here and the phone feels pretty sturdy.
There are some things that need to be fixed as it is with any new OS but I can see what is in the near future for this phone. For one some apps will not run while the phone is locked. MS said they are now allowing 3rd party apps to do this as long as they demonstrate that it will not overconsume the battery..which I think is a good thing. I like how ou can get to past apps using the back button but there also needs to be some kind of fast app switching.
All in all I am extremely happy with my phone and OS. Take my advice, at least take a look at this OS first hand with an open mind before forming an opinion.
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