HTC arrive (Sprint) - PC Magazine

The arrival of HTC finally brings Windows Phone 7 Sprint, with easy to use Microsoft and excellent desktop software interface. But without 4 G, this cell phone do not provide the best Internet experience, the carrier has to offer.

Physical and telephone performance characteristics

The arrival is a classy, businesslike phone, made of grey metal and plastic touch. 4.6 By 2.3 by 0.6 inches (detectors) and 6.5 ounces, it's a little heavy, as it is a kind of neutron star material; that density it helps to feel expensive. The front of the phone is a standard 3.6 inch 800-by-480 LCD, but the slide on the screen to the right and something unusual occurs: the display moves above and tilts as a mini laptop, revealing a great QWERTY keyboard five ranks.

I have mixed feelings about the hinge. Sometimes, it's great: it reduces glare outside and indoors it can sit on your desktop phone. I am concerned, but he will be stuck over time, and arrival suffers problem all landscape format Windows, make the telephones. A large part of the Windows phone operating system does not work in landscape mode, so you're left with this portable small on your desktop where the interface elementas are laterally.

The telephone arrival performance is mixed. RF reception is frankly excellent: I successfully made several calls in an area very weak signal. But while the listener is nice and loud, some of my test calls were interrupted by audio artifacts, such as the POPs and clicks. Transmissions through the main CMI were perfectly understandable, but a bit windy with a slight hiss in the background. The speaker is quite quiet almost unnecessary. I got 4 hours and 32 minutes of time to talk about, what is acceptable, but not much for a 3 G phone.

I matched the arrival easily with a Bluetooth of Aliph Jawbone Era helmet ($129, 4.5 stars) and activated by the voice dial system pleasantly clear.

Apps and Internet experience
Windows Phone 7 has compatibility unparalleled with setups of Microsoft office, including a fantastic Exchange client and integrated Office software document. The Web browser is bad, either. It is therefore regrettable that the arrival of Internet speeds are so slow.

The arrival is devoid of 4 G WiMAX, which accelerates the Net access on HTC Evo 4 G phones epic Samsung 4 G $249 (4 stars) and two Sprint$ 199 (4 stars). But it is slow for 3 G. When I tested the arrival directly against an Evo using the browser on DSLReports speed test and two downloadable speed tests (Ookla on the Evo) and bandwidth on the arrival, I was significantly slower speeds on the arrival of five of the six timeswith no result arrived more than 663 Kbps towards the bottom and 510 Kbps up. Other top sprint smartphones leave this phone in the dust. At least the arrival has Wi - Fi and it easily connected to our secure WPA2 network.

As all phones Windows for the time being, the arrival is based on now older first generation 1 GHz Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon processor, which offers beautiful performance. The arrival is perhaps phone best gaming of the Sprint, with the many excellent games among the 10,000 applications on the Windows phone market. But note that Sprint has yet not all phones based on chip Nvidia Tegra 2, which provides higher gaming performance.

Microsoft, Sprint and HTC have improved the standard Windows phone software with a couple of apps and a big feature: copy and paste. Copy and paste has worked for the text in each application, I tried, with a warning: you need to zoom in beyond a certain point to be able to operate on the words, see them highlighted and copied. This can be very frustrating.

You can get several useful applications through the portal of hub of HTC. There is a Notepad, lamp, Equalizer graphic, photo, but especially an application enhancer very cool called "Careful telephone", which made things as increase the volume of ringtone if the phone is in a bag and turn off the ringtone if you flip phone on a table. That stuff is treated and should be a default feature.

Contribution major Sprint is a propulsion TeleNav GPS application that locked in my location quickly and accurately and works perfectly in landscape mode. It is a big bonus on Microsoft maps app that works correctly with the keyboard open.

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