Saturday, November 27, 2010

Pre-review of WP7 on HTC HD7

While I had been thinking I would wait for the next generation iPad to appear I changed my mind and decided to take the dive into the smart phone pool now.

I've used and absolutely love Sandi's iPhone 4. It's a fantastic little device that I really cannot stoop to calling a "phone." It does just about anything and everything. But I have to be different and since I have become enamoured with Windows 7 I decided to take an alternate path. I purchased my HD7 running Windows Phone 7 OS and am waiting for it to arrive.

Anxious to know if I made the right decision (oh, I read a lot of reviews and opinion pieces on the web) I visited the T-Mobile store in town today to try out an HD7. The phone in stock was dead (battery that is) so he had to remove it from the security lock and plug it into an outlet at the side of the store. After a minute the phone would start and it booted into the familiar (well, at least familiar in the sense that I have seen pictures of it all over the internet) start screen. I grabbed the phone from him and started playing.

The interface was smooth. It flowed nicely and I could navigate it with some confidence (it is pretty basic, fairly intuitive). I didn't get much time with it, but I played with the on-screen keyboard and fired up an application or two and found the whole experience satisfying.

More to come when my phone arrives.

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