HTC Arrive – The First Windows Phone 7 Offering on Sprint
The HTC Arrive, running on Windows Phone 7, is the latest addition to Sprint's rank of smartphone offerings. Combining a classy slider design with Microsoft's smooth and zippy interface, it is ready to satisfy both your business and pleasure needs.
The Arrive sports a 3.6-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen with an 800x480-pixel resolution. When you push the screen to the right, it will tilt up 30 degrees for optimal viewing, and reveal a soft-touch QWERTY keyboard underneath for easy typing. At 4.6" high by 2.3" wide by 0.6" deep and 6.4 ounces, the Arrive may feel quite chubby in your hands, but it is also well-built and sturdy.
As a Windows 7 Phone device, the Arrive provides all the goodies you would expect from the platform. With Live Tiles, you get a clear view of your new messages and emails, missed calls, contacts, friend status updates, news, and more on the Start screen. You will find six hubs – People, Pictures, Games, Music + Video, Marketplace and Office – to help you keep things organized. For instance, the Office Hub brings you the mobile versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Sharepoint. Moreover, the smartphone comes preloaded with the latest software updates, including an improved Marketplace search and the long-awaited cut-and-paste function.
In addition to Microsoft's hubs, HTC and Sprint have included their own hubs onto the device as well. HTC Hub offers some enhanced apps for download, like Photo Enhancer, Sound Enhancer and Flashlight, while Sprint Hub recommends a few of its featured services and apps. As for pre-installed programs, the carrier has thrown in TeleNav GPS Navigator for turn-by-turn navigation.
The Arrive boasts a number of strong features in the multimedia department as well. The 5-megapixel camera comes with LED flash and autofocus, and supports 720p HD video recording. With the built-in Music + Video Hub, you can access all your music and movies, and sync between your smartphone and computer through the Zune software. Mobile gamers will love the Xbox integration, which lets them play games from Xbox Live on the go. As always, you can find a lot more games and apps from Windows Phone Marketplace.
Other than the aforementioned, text messaging, multimedia messaging, email, full HTML browsing, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS and a 3.5mm headset jack are onboard. The phone does not come with a memory card slot for additional storage capacity, but it offers 16GB of internal memory, along with 25GB of online storage from Windows Live SkyDrive.
Embracing the excellent features of the latest version of Microsoft's OS, the HTC Arrive is a solid smartphone that strikes a great balance between work and entertainment. There is no better choice for Sprint customers who are also fans of Windows Phone.
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