HTC HD7: Now With NoDo
by Vivek Gowri on May 12, 2011 6:30 AM EST- Posted in
- Smartphones
- Windows Phone 7
- Snapdragon
- Mobile
- HTC HD7
Surprisingly Decent Battery Life
Surprisingly, the battery life is not as bad as I was expecting it to be. The Venue Pro and Focus fare pretty poorly in our testing due to their AMOLED displays, and I was expecting the HTC’s large LCD to be a similar hindrance. Oddly, we saw better battery life out of the HD7 than the Surround across the board, even though the two have the same 1230 mAh (4.55 Wh) battery. It’s still behind the Optimus 7, but the LG has a significantly larger battery.
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brucek2 - Friday, May 13, 2011 - link
Who's the marketing genius who let the name "NoDo" be attached to their product? I understand that within Microsoft this is understood to mean "No Doughnut." Of course, to any regular consumer who hears the name (such as those who see it in the press because it was apparently leaked to them...), it is much more likely to mean "No Do" as in can't do it, won't do it, etc.Think this is a small matter? Many years ago Chevrolet tried launching their Chevy Nova in Mexico. Without changing the name. Unfortunately, "Nova" or "No va" means "it doesn't go" in Spanish. The predictable result was that it didn't sell there.
KrazzyDJ - Saturday, May 14, 2011 - link
Perhaps NoDo (or No Doughnuts) is Microsoft taking a dig at Android considering one of their OS upgrades was christened Doughnut. So, the name might mean Microsoft trying to say No Android !!!crazzeto - Monday, May 16, 2011 - link
You reference a wiki listing of things wmo 6 did that 7 doesn't do. It would have been nice to include a link. I can sympathise with such a listing, I was an avid wmo 6 user until I switched to google with Droid 2. When I read about what wp7 would have feature set wise, I couldn't believe how limiting it was.Lilitu - Friday, May 20, 2011 - link
I have high hopes for the WP7 platform.This review was quite lucid and fair.
While I like my HD7 a great deal I do miss a working IM client but for texting, calling and browsing it works well.
Unlike WM6.5 in my HD2 and every single Android device I have ever used; it does NOT freeze.
IMHO that is worth the price of admission.
We'll see what Nokia comes up with as well as the rumored HTC "Bresson"!