The HTC HD7 is a large enough phone, though it’s pretty slim and its curved design at the back is quite sleek. Weighing 162 grams, I found it just a little bit on the heavy side. The layout of it is similar to other Windows Phone 7 devices – it include...
Massive screen gives you plenty of browsing space, Dolby Mobile and SRS do make a difference, autofocus in video, Windows Phone 7
Rattly volume key suggests build quality not quite as good as usual, battery life poor, viewing angles on screen not great
We suspect that firmware issues have kept the best of the HD7 from us. The large screen offers great real estate for browsing and Windows Phone 7 offers a great smartphone approach to put this space to good useKey specs3.5mm jack, 3G, Bluetooth, FM rad...
Good mobile Microsoft Office experience; excellent touch-screen keyboard; stylish and simple interface; integrated Zune Player
Disappointing battery life; lack of manual Wi-Fi search feature; no SD-card slot; no Flash support
The HD7 has a great touch-screen keyboard, but the poor battery life is disappointing. And while Microsoft has put a lot of effort into the Windows Phone 7 platform making it a definite improvement over Windows Mobile, it still has a way to go before ...
Enormous, 4.3-inch screen; Simple attractive user interface; Easy to sync with Zune; Good music store; Fabulously responsive touchscreen; Good on-screen keyboard
App store is just getting going; poor social-networking options; landscape mode is lacking in places; poor Yahoo search in the browser; no expandable memory
The HTC HD7 is everything we'd hoped it would be, thanks to its gorgeous hardware and the simple, swoopy pleasure of Windows Phone 7. But only time will tell whether the bare shelves of the app store will eventually be stacked with treats....
The HTC HD7 with Windows Phone 7 - available in the UK exclusively on O2 - may not be the game changer that its creators would have hoped for, but it's a powerful, capable device with an OS that stands up well against the competition, and offers a str...
Because of Microsoft's stringent minimum specifications for OEMs and 'standardisation' of the platform, each Windows Phone 7 handset is going to offer a very similar OS experience. That said, the HD7 is the biggest screen around at launch which is a re...
Windows Phone 7 was very smooth to navigate and seemed fairly simple to use on the HTC HD7 smartphone. It clearly shows that Microsoft focused much more on the consumer with this OS, even though it left in a lot of its productivity software that will ...
