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hey guys it's for an amendment from pocketnow.com we are looking at the HTC hd7 possibly the most beautiful windows phone 7 device released yet this is going on t-mobile and it's 199 on sale in November most likely yeah for sure that we don't know for sure yet and it is a beautiful device it as a 4.3 inch display of course it's capacitive and we have these three capacitive touch buttons down on the bottom and surrounded in a ring of chrome which is quite nice a speaker is kind of a beautiful two millimeters high here it's kind of a different design from what HTC normally does and below where the microphone is down here we're actually it's probably just a design element stereo speaker stereo speaker oh that's right stereo speaker here and here and then of course the microphone is down there moving around the back it says hd7 here in full full glory over the brush metal background kind of a rubbery touch material on the back and then here we have the 5 megapixel camera with the dual LED flash of course we have this extent here which is very functional provides a good amount of weight although Adam and I are a little bit concerned about how along this will hold up outdoor all the hinges it feels a little bit flimsy it's kind of a plastic immersive I'm sure HTC has tested it many times dang off the back battery cover have the battery not sure what the size of town taking it out sim card of course no removable storage but you get 16 gigabytes of storage on the hd7 just quite quite fit I'll get it next to the HTC hd2 which is presumably the predecessor to the hd7 we made the jump from HD to 200 HD 2 2 HD 7 so very similar-looking devices at first glance but of course HD 7 is adorned a little bit more nicely in chrome have different designs and obviously the hardware buttons seem to be out of style now going from capacity by on the back here not many similarities both have the dual LED flash and you won't find any markings of HTC Sense or because the hd7 doesn't really have HTC Sense otherwise you're going to see in a second it does have a feature that HTC has added so here we have the device screen is very well you can wheel it on your eye looks great and slide to unlock here 4.3 inch screen looks fantastic it is a high level of responsiveness in fact just as much responsiveness as the Samsung Focus which has the 4 inch AMOLED screen extremely smooth and we have some HTC stuff here called the HTC hub but it's not that deep deeply integrated in the phone but it adds a little bit of HTC flavor to device and it looks just like we saw in the weeks actually so we can add a variety of different kind of features to this so we can click get more and that should launch us into the choices so we can do stocks sound enhancer and let's get more it's going to jump us into sort of a little half rotation download areas we can get the notes application and again this is the stuff that we saw react it's all very much consistent with what we've seen before we can't download that up a minute at the moment back up a little bit see the other things that you can add to the HTC hub so if that can / photo very basic things I mean HTC really hasn't done that much to make this a better experience it's basically an install of Windows Phone 7 with a little bit of HTC magic so let's go through the web browsing experience more do a comparison with the HTC hd2 just so you can get a sense for what do they look like it's possible that we're not going to get any data here see what happens as it for that all parents under somebody's I'm typing for a weird angle but the keyboard is quite nice because you get the large keys see if it actually loads which one else would screen rotation pretty fast just as fast as we've seen with the LG Panther development device I mean it's quite good as well it looks like we are getting that was weird that was weird it went to take it see about it okay let me try to type that again because it went to a non kid from the website there and i'll get i'll get it loaded on the other and we'll come back and compare this especially so wrong so here we have Kakinada calm loaded on both the hd7 and the hd2 that we're using opera mobile 29.7 and i play cloud or 59.1 is so scrolling is super buttery soon with all windows phone 7 obviously there's no html5 or flash support although oddly it's doing a better job at displaying certain range elements that is nice too so we'll do a little screen rotation speed test here which is always a little bit of a challenge sure windows phone 7 1 HD 2 1 HD 7 1 okay and we'll see what it's like to pinch and zoom on the ground on the page from a relative so usually pretty good on the hd2 although sometimes it gets a little bit choppy but I think you'll find in Windows Phone 7 the experience is just really really refined are your droid and other than that we jump back to the start screen here it is standard fare and that's what you expect from windows phone 7 but the the large screen on the hd7 really makes it a better experience don't feel better mobile TV let's check that out no I'm sorry looks like you have to download something for the marketplace we can't do they're totally our video tour that's good let's see some video on this music extender controlled my favorite dollars out of a house where your mom lives are pretty good it's a tmobile island service the Harriers are adding their own little of touches along going and that is the HTC hd7 a worthy successor to the ocean