The smartphone market is an extremely competitive one. The days when we used to be impressed if our phone had a torch are long gone. Now we complain if they weigh over 150 g and can't sync all our email contacts. Everyone is in on the action, from (relatively) aeons old mobile phone manufacturers (Nokia and Motorola) to software companies (Symbian and Microsoft); even Google is after a slice of the smartphone pie. In fact, Google and Microsoft have taken their internet war mobile, and are competing as top-notch smartphone operating system designers.
They've both had their fair share of trials and tribulations, but are finally starting to come through with some seriously impressive software. For instance, towards the end of 2010 Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7; a much anticipated upgrade from Windows Phone 6.5, which was not as well received as Microsoft would have hoped. HTC is one of the manufacturers now using Windows Phone 7 as their operating system of choice, as evidenced by the HTC 7 Pro and HTC HD 7 models.
If you just take a quick look at the new Windows Phone 7 HTC phones you probably won't be able to tell them apart from many of the other smartphones available. This isn't meant to be disparaging. They're both sleek, shiny, attractive black phones with eye-catching displays. You just have to look a little deeper to find their distinguishing features.
The HTC 7 Pro has been described as a business professional's phone, while the HD 7 is focused more on entertainment. The starkest difference between the two being that the 7 Pro has a slide-out five-row QWERTY keyboard. The keyboard is backlit for your typing convenience, but in a review for My Broadband, Gerrit Vermeulen says that the backlighting on his phone's keypad worked sporadically until, after several reboots, it stayed on permanently, which he thinks is an unnecessary waste of precious battery life.
The other big difference is in the size of the display. The 7 Pro is only 3.6 inches wide, while the HD 7 is a far more impressive 4.3 inches. In terms of audio and picture quality there isn't much to choose between the two; although the bigger screen makes the HD 7 more suited to multimedia features - hence the greater entertainment value.
In case you were wondering what else separates the two phones into their business and entertainment categories consider this: The HTC 7 Pro comes with an app that allows you to keep track of the stock exchange, while the HD 7 comes with more games.
The phones may not be perfect, but they are helping to keep the smartphone wars interesting.
We write about top phones for leading mobile phone online classifieds, PhoneTrader.
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