HTC HD7S: Windows Phone 7 With a Huge Screen (Video)

HTC's flagship Windows 7 Phone handsets, the HD7 has just been robbed at CTIA 2011 in Florida of a new model with a few incremental differences.
Two new Windows 7 Phone handsets for AT&T and Sprint, are on display this week at the CTIA conference in Orlando.
HTC HD7S launching soon in the UK, filled with a new screen and some enhanced features.
Both arrive with the latest version of Microsoft's mobile operating system, which includes new features such as copy / paste text.
The biggest difference between the HD7 and HD7S is that the new display.
Watch videos from CTIAThe firmware update for existing Windows phone handsets now being rolled out to selected customers in Europe, and will be extended gradually to other, according to Microsoft.
The Super LCD promises brighter, sharper results, in spite of the same size as the 4.3-inch can be found in the original HD7.
Among the new features in Windows 7 Phone is copy / paste, faster loading application, and an improved search for the online Zune Phone Windows Marketplace: queries can now return results only programs, or music, or games instead of all three together .
The second change is that the copy and paste functionality - sorely missing from the Windows 7 Phone at launch - will be on HD7S right out of the box.
AT&T announced HTC HD7S, which is a variant of the existing HD7 Windows phone handsets previously available abroad and from T-Mobile USA.
Elsewhere the specs are the same: it's still a 1 GHz processor, a 5-Meg camera and 16 GB of storage.
The main difference is the improved display.
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The original HD7 used a standard thin film transistor (TFT) LCD screen.
It will be AT&T's largest screen Windows phone device: a 4.3-inch screen with a 800 x 480 pixel WVGA resolution.
The HD7S has a 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash for photos and HD video.
It packs 16 GB of internal memory.
As with other first-generation Windows phones, Qualcomm has HD7S's 1-GHz Snapdragon single-core processor.
The phone comes with AT&T's U-verse mobile app, which lets customers U-verse media subscription service manage DVR recordings, browse TV listings, and download and watch TV programs.
The phone will be available in coming weeks, but no price was announced.
The other new phone is the previously announced HTC Arrive for Sprint, the first Windows phone for CDMA networks, which became available this week.
The Arrive is a relabeled the HTC Pro 7, which was first announced in October 2010 but was only available outside the U.S.
The Arrive is a 3.6-inch, 800 x 480 pixel WVGA touchscreen, which slides up and tilts to expose a full QWERTY .
To Arrive, Sprint charges $ 10 monthly add-on fee for its smart phones, on top of everything data plan starting at $ 69.99 per month.
John Cox covers wireless networks and mobile computing for Network World.
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