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:
- 4.3" 16M-color capacitive LCD touchscreen of WVGA resolution (480 x 800 pixels)
- Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
- Dual-band 3G with HSDPA (7.2 Mbps) and HSUPA (2Mbps)
- Windows Phone 7 operating system
- 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, 576MB RAM, 512MB ROM
- 5 megapixel autofocus camera with dual-LED flash, geotagging
- 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-colored design highlights
- Great audio quality
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" (signal drops by at least two bars)
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 and syncing
- 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 (automatic transcoding provided by Zune software)
- No sign of free Bing maps Navigation so far
- No internet tethering support
- No handwriting recognition support
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:: www.gsmarena.com HTC HD7 review: Dim the lights ::
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