HTC 7 Pro
HTC 7 Pro with unbroken keyboard
G-sensor, digital compass, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor
GSM ( 850/900/1800/1900 MHz) HSPA ( 900/2100 MHz)
Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, A-GPS, Bluetooth 2.1 ( with support for A2DP, AVRCP, HFP, HSP, PBAP )
Micro USB, 3.5mm jack
Physical QWERTY keyboard, Dolby Mobile, SRS surround sound
The HTC 7 Pro is a smartphone from the Taiwanese manufacturer HTC Corporation. The operating system is Windows Phone 7 will be used.
Background
The HTC 7 Pro is one of the first series of smartphones that are equipped with the Microsoft operating system Windows Phone 7. In contrast to the other Windows Phone 7 smartphones of the manufacturer HTC Corporation HTC 7 Pro was introduced until early 2011. Designed the HTC 7 Pro as a business smart phone, because it has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a stronger battery (1500 mAh) is equipped. In particular, compared to the HTC HD7 is a touchscreen with the same resolution (WVGA ), but smaller diagonal was installed. Microsoft provides the brands on which to run Windows Phone 7, strict requirements that serve, among other quality assurance. At the same time, this however leads to far-reaching restrictions on the openness for application development and custom manufacturer designs.
Launch
The HTC 7 Pro was first delivered in Germany in the first quarter of 2011.
Technology
Chipset
Hardware base is a Snapdragon QSD8250 chipset type, which was built in the predecessor HTC HD2. The clocked at 1 GHz Scorpion processor core is similar to the ARM Cortex- A8 core and is supported by 576 MB of RAM. Graphical calculations assumes the permanently installed on the board Adreno 200 chip from Qualcomm, which dominates the OpenGL ES 2.0 and Direct3D standard, among other things. The QSD8250 chipset represents the first generation of Snapdragon product line and supports multiple wireless standards including GPRS, EDGE, UMTS and HSPA. In addition, all Snapdragon chipsets include arithmetic units for decoding HDTV with a resolution of 720p and a GPS receiver.
Memory
Unlike other models, such as the Samsung Omnia 7, HTC 7 Pro comes in no festgelöteter NAND memory for use, but an internal, not freely accessible SD card slot; Here is an 8 GB SDHC memory card. The internal ROM memory with a capacity of 512 MB is here, together with the SD card, put together in a JBOD composite to a memory; within the operating system so it can not be distinguished between ROM or SD card.
In the meantime, however, a tinkerer of the online community PocketPC.ch has apparently found a way yet to install a larger SD card. Such experiments were also on the HTC HD7 already successful and are there, according to a video that was set at YouTube, be possible without loss of warranty claims.
Camera
The integrated camera can take pictures with a resolution of up to 5 megapixels ( 2,560 × 1,920 pixels). For light measurement is an active pixel sensor (also known as "CMOS sensor " ) for the course. Support the camera gets assisted by a dual LED flash. The camera can also shoot movies with a resolution up to 720p (1280 × 720 pixels). Continue to provide the user different shooting modes available, including candlelight, landscape and portrait.
Wireless communicates the HTC 7 Pro via Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSPA and Bluetooth 2.1. In addition, an A-GPS antenna is installed. It supports the Bluetooth profiles A2DP, AVRCP, HFP, HSP, PBAP and.
Operation
The HTC 7 Pro is the only Windows Phone 7 device manufacturer HTC Corporation with a physical keyboard. The keyboard drives the side of the screen to the left. In particular, the Home Screen is 7 but designed at the operating system Windows Phone to a vertical attitude of the screen. To use the physical keyboard, the HTC 7 Pro but must be kept across, making operation more difficult then the false -oriented menus. This shortcoming has since been reprimanded in several editorial tests.