HTC HD7: Now With NoDo

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• softdrinkviking - Thursday, May 12, 2011 - link

  nice clip vivek. :)
  
  i am interested in WP7, but i am totally underwhelmed by the weak hardware, especially the displays!
  basically, a phone is like 90% display, and it seems like apple is the only company that gets that.
  but i am not huge IOS fan.
  
  i am going to be back in the US at the end of June after working overseas for 3 years, so i am really hoping that something awesome comes out by about then. (droid 3 maybe?)

• sviola - Thursday, May 12, 2011 - link

  I know everyone here is a hardware enthusiast, but I don't think it is a major problem with WP7, that seems to run very well on the current hardware, in terms of processor and memory. Of course there is room for improvement and I could add a few examples: cameras, 4G, front facing camera, removable flash storage, multi-SIM; but this will probably come with the Nokia handsets (seems their first handset will be built with the N8 as reference, so we will get 12 mp camera and many other nice stuff).
  
  As for the software, there is a need to improving it and I'm sure that with Mango we'll see a lot more than has been disclosed so far:
  
  - Multitasking
  - IE 9
  - Twitter integration
  - Turn by turn navigation
  - Voice to text
  - Bing Audio
  - Bing video
  - Messenger integration
  - Unified Inbox
  - SkyDrive sink for Mobile Office
  - Skype
  
  Of course, we'll have the complete list on May 24th when they'll show it to the press.

• Silent_Rage - Thursday, May 12, 2011 - link

  To say that WP7 runs well on last generation hardware is an understatement. I currently have an HTC Arrive (gotta have the keyboard) and while there are features I wish it had such as front-facing camera and 4G, I really enjoy using it. I got one for my wife and the best part was that she didn't need me to show her how to use it....she figured it out herself!! I think that WP7 has a lot of promise, but I agree with Vivek that the update cycle must be more aggressive to catch up with the competition. From what I read about Mango, it looks promising but they cannot afford to delay this update like what happened with NoDo.

• softdrinkviking - Thursday, May 12, 2011 - link

  the only thing i really want is a better display. that's it. processors they have are good enough to do what i want for the most part, but i would really like a nicer, crisper, display, and hope against hopes, one that is easy to read outside!

• damianrobertjones - Thursday, May 12, 2011 - link

  I don't think that removable storage is a sensible thing. We used to have people here who simply didn't 'get' removable micro-sd storage back in the 6.5 days and neither do many of the people out there in the street. If it works for apple then I say 'don't' have removable storage as you open the company to complaints. People will also buy MEGA cheap cards and THEN complain of speed issues.

• FrederickL - Friday, May 13, 2011 - link

  
  I have to say that I really disagree. I do not see why my choices should be damaged by the brain-dead amongst the customer base. I have some respect for what MS are doing with Win7 and will definitely be interested when Nokia start delivering. If however there is no removable storage (and they continue like other companies with non-removable batteries) that will be a total deal-breaker for me. MS are clearly running hard to catch up on the software front but if every new release of a WP7 is more of the same old same because Redmond refuse to lighten up on the hardware restrictions, I for one will not even bother to look at a Windows phone.

• xype - Thursday, May 12, 2011 - link

  iOS 5. :P

• xype - Thursday, May 12, 2011 - link

  Damn, should have been a comment to softdrinkviking… anyhow, the hardware will get its updates—if WP7 looks like an interesting alternative, I wouldn't worry too much about the hardware part.

• Psycownage - Thursday, May 12, 2011 - link

  As always a great review from ananndtech however i have noticed a couple of problems with the graphs, first on battery graphs 2 are identical, looking at image links i guess one of these should show talk time. second, shouldn't black levels be lower is better not higher is better?

• VivekGowri - Thursday, May 12, 2011 - link

  Fiiiiixed, thanks for catching!