HTC HD7S hands-on

HTC’s HD7 was certainly one of the most handsome devices to be launched back at Windows Phone 7’s retail introduction late last year — and really, when you take the HD2’s heritage as your starting point, it’s hard to go wrong. Of course, in the last year and a half, mobile display technology has advanced by leaps and bounds — and the original HD7 was using nothing more than a standard, old-school TFT LCD with less-than-perfect contrast and viewing angle specs. Well, that’s where the HD7S comes into play: the “S” in the name presumably stands for Super LCD , the newer type of display that HTC’s been using on recent 4.3-inch models like the Thunderbolt . It’s quite pretty, but otherwise, it’s the same HD7 as usual — and really, considering how nice this hardware is, that’s just alright by us. The phone also comes with the so-called “NoDo” update of Windows Phone 7 preinstalled, a fact we were able to verify with a quick look of the version number being reported in system settings. Check it out in the gallery! Gallery: HTC HD7S hands-on HTC HD7S hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink