HTC HD7 unboxing

The retail box of the HTC HD7 has pretty standard contents: a USB charger and a standard microUSB cable. There’s a one-piece headset with music controls and a manual on both mini-CD and in paper-copy. The supplied headphones aren't your only option – the HD7 has a 3.5mm audio jack.

Key features:

1. 4.3" 16M-color capacitive LCD touchscreen of WVGA resolution (480 x 800 pixels)
2. Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
3. Dual-band 3G with HSDPA (7.2 Mbps) and HSUPA (2Mbps)
4. Windows Phone 7 operating system
5. 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, 576MB RAM, 512MB ROM
6. 5 megapixel autofocus camera with dual-LED flash, geotagging
7. 720p video recording @ 25fps
8. 8GB of built-in storage
9. Standard 3.5mm audio jack
10. Standard microUSB port (charging)
11. Dolby Mobile and SRS sound enhancement
12. Wi-Fi b/g/n
13. Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP
14. Accelerometer for screen auto rotation
15. Office document editor
16. Facebook integration and cloud services
17. Built-in A-GPS receiver
18. Stereo FM Radio with RDS
19. Comes with HTC Hub and exclusive HTC apps
20. Voice-to-text functionality
21. Kickstand with trademark yellow-colored design highlights
22. Great audio quality

Main disadvantages:

1. High screen response time causes visible ghosting
2. Non-expandable storage
3. No lens protection
4. Quite heavy at 162 g (not that we mind)
5. Somewhat susceptible to the "antenna death grip" (signal drops by at least two bars)

WP7-specific limitations

1. No system-wide file manager
2. No Bluetooth file transfers
3. No USB mass storage mode
4. Limited third-party apps availability
5. No Flash (nor Silverlight) support in the browser
6. Too dependent on Zune software for file management and syncing
7. No video calls
8. New ringtones available only through the Marketplace
9. Music player lacks equalizer presets
10. No multitasking
11. No copy/paste
12. No DivX/XviD video support (automatic transcoding provided by Zune software)
13. No sign of free Bing maps Navigation so far
14. No internet tethering support
15. No handwriting recognition support

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