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HTC 7 Pro Review and Specifications

HTC 7 Pro is a smartphone with QWERTY slideout keypad and as the name would suggest it is a phone running Microsofts Windows Phone OS 7. The dimensions of the phone are 117.5 mm * 59 mm * 15.5 mm, it weighs 185 g, 3.6 inches capacitive touchscreen with pinch-to-zoom capability and with resolution of 480 * 800 WVGA. The 3G network has a High Speed Downlink Packet Access of 7.2 Mbps and High Speed Uplink Packet Access of  2 Mbps

The camera is of 5 MP with auto-focus and flash, HD video recording can be done at 720p. It is a speaker phone with 3.5 mm audio jack, SRS surround sound, with audio supported formats like mp3, m4a, m4b, wma (Wondows Media Audio 9) and with video supported formats like mp4, 3gp, 3g2, m4v, and etc.,

The internal memory of the phone is 8 GB, 512 MB ROM, 576 MB RAM. It has CPU Processing Speed of 1 GHz. The other features of the phone include GPRS, EDGE, Internal GPS antenna, Wi-Fi with IEEE 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v2.1 with Enhanced Data Rate, A2DP for wireless stereo headsets, HTC hub where you can view weather, stocks, converter, photo enhancer, sound enhancer, and etc., webpages like facebook, twitter are available for social networking, sensors like G-sensor, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, digital compass and etc., are available

The battery is of 1500 mAh Li-Ion battery with standby power of  420 h and talk time power of  420 mins. The messaging options include SMS, MMS, Push, Email and IM. It is only available in one color ie., black. The expected price of HTC  7 Pro is $575 for unlocked phone.

HTC 7 Pro Specifications :

  • OS : Windows Phone OS 7


  • QWERTY slideout keypad


  • Dimensions : 117.5 mm * 59 mm * 15.5 mm

when compared to : Samsung I9000 Galaxy S dimensions are 64.2 * 122.4 * 9.9 mm

iPhone dimensions are 115.2 * 56.8 * 9.3 mm

Blackberry Torch dimensions are 111 x 62 x 14.6 mm


  • Weight : 185 g

when compared to : Samsung I9000 Galaxy S is 118 g

iPhone weighs 137 g

Blackberry Torch weighs 161 g


  • Resolution : 480 * 800 WVGA

when compared to : Samsung I9000 Galaxy S is WVGA (480 * 800)


  • Screen : 3.6 inches capacitive touchscreen with pinch-to-zoom capability

when compared to : Samsung I9000 Galaxy S is Super Active Matrix OLEDs (C-Type) display screen

iPhone is TFT capacitive touchscreen

Blackberry Torch is TFT capacitive touchscreen


  • 3G : High Speed Downlink Packet Access of 7.2 Mbps and High Speed Uplink Packet Access of  2 Mbps
  • Internal memory : 8 GB, 512 MB ROM, 576 MB RAM, CPU Processing Speed of 1 GHz
  • Camera : 5 MP with auto-focus and flash, HD video recording can be done at 720p
  • Music : speaker phone with 3.5 mm audio jack, SRS surround sound, with audio supported formats like mp3, m4a, m4b, wma (Wondows Media Audio 9) and with video supported formats like mp4, 3gp, 3g2, m4v, and etc.,
  • GPRS
  • EDGE
  • Internal GPS antenna
  • Wi-Fi with IEEE 802.11 b/g/n
  • Bluetooth v2.1 with Enhanced Data Rate
  • A2DP for wireless stereo headsets
  • HTC hub where you can view weather, stocks, converter, photo enhancer, sound enhancer, and etc.,
  • Webpages like facebook, twitter are available for social networking
  • Sensors like G-sensor, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, digital compass and etc.,
  • Battery : 1500 mAh Li-Ion battery with standby power of  420 h and talk time power of  420 mins

when compared to : Samsung I9000 Galaxy S standard Li-Ion (Lithium-Ion) 1500 mAh battery with a stand by power of 576 h max and a talk time power of 393 min max

iPhone has standard Li-Po 1420 mAh battery with stand by power of  3oo h and talk time power of 7 h

Blackberry Torch has standard Li-Ion 1300 mAh standard battery with stand by power of 340 h and talk time power of 6 h

  • Messaging : SMS, MMS, Push, Email and IM
  • Color : black
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Microsoft Kinect – The next Big Step

Microsoft Kinect has given a fresh lease of life for Microsoft’s Gaming department, couple of years back when the XBOX 360’s where failing with Ring of Death, Many experts predicted the fall of the Redmond Giant in one more category.

But in 2010, Microsoft is still growing strong, rather has become the buzz of the holiday season with the launch of its innovative hands-free motion sensitive controller the Kinect. Coupling with the slimmer XBOX 360 S (2010), the combination is proving to be deadly in negotiating Sony’s PS3 (with Move) and Nintendo Wii.

There is a crazy demand in the market for XBOX Kinect which is usually associated with iPhone launches and seen in other cases like Amazon’s kindle and Nintendo Wii. Microsoft has gone low key over the last few years and has started showing some good results.

Microsoft Xbox 360 4GB Console with Kinect Sensor $299.95 w/ Free Shipping

But coming to the Kinect, when Microsoft showed some demo’s of the Kinect concept sometime back, I was wondering how long it will take for Microsoft to come out with a practical device for public use. But to everyone’s surprise MS has come out the device in a much short time and a very affordable price point of $150. When you buy the Kinect in a XBOX bundle it becomes even more cheaper.

If one thought Wii was a new concept in Gaming, Kinect definitely takes it to the next level. Now with Kinect not just gaming but a whole new suit of medical and practical applications of the device will surely hit the market. Imagine a Therapy DVD which will monitor and correct every step and move of the patient and so on.
Lets wait for couple of more months to see more Game titles and applications of the Kinect.

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Microsoft to launch IE 9 in September 2010

Microsoft is preparing for its next big launch party, the next generation of its famous Web Browser Internet Explorer, Since the launch of IE 7 Microsoft has steadily rised in the Browser Games, with IE 8  MS started following the open standards in rendering moving away from its own implemenation.

With IE 9 Microsoft tries to beat Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome in terms of performance and native hardware rendered support for HTML 5. MS boasts of considerable performance improvement in Javascript implementation (Sunspider tests) , ACID tests (95%), CSS3 and HTML 5 rendering.

Microsoft has been target of  security critics prior to IE 7, but the criticisms have reduced and general stability and image of IE platform has generally been positive in the last few years.

Considering that IE is the only browser with a 64 bit version and Most of the new windows purchases are in 64 bit version, IE 9 can be expected to create considerable buzz.

You can test drive IE 9  here – http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/