HTC Arrive Reviews

Windows Phone 7 adds another to its ranks having its first CDMA offering, the HTC Arrive on Sprint. The Arrive (Price TBA with two-year contract) isn't the best looking cellphone in existence, however it is dazzling screen will draw several eyes.

Design
Phones sport 3.6-inch capacitive displays and so are roughly the same dimensions (4.63-by-2.32 -by-0.61 inches). The Arrive, however, is slightly heavier at 6.49 ounces.The Arrive feels slightly chunky as part of your hand and you should feel it in the bank while travelling.

Display
HTC Arrive on Sprint 3.6-inch capacitive displays and so are roughly the same dimensions (4.63-by-2.32 -by-0.61 inches). The Arrive, however, is slightly heavier at 6.49 ounces.The Arrive feels slightly chunky as part of your hand and you should feel it in the bank while travelling.

Keyboard
The Arrive includes a slide-out full-QWERTY keyboard when you don't want to touch type on the screen. The keyboard was simple enough to type on, but If only that you keys (like the spacebar) were a tad bigger.If you slide the keyboard out, a little spring pops your screen up for any better angle. While this is a pleasant touch, I ran across the spring being a little on the flimsy side. To close the keyboard, you will need to press upon the screen then slide it back. The entire process is awkward and definitely takes getting used to.

Performance
Running a 1-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and outfitted with 576MB of RAM and 512MB of ROM, the HTC Arrive felt very swift.Data-intensive apps such as the Marketplace took about 4 seconds to load, which isn't bad in any way.The Arrive has an whopping 16GB of of memory space, that will actually supply loads of storage for music, photos, and apps.

Camera and Camcorder
The 5-megapixel camera on the Arrive did a great job with still life shots. Colors looked balanced pictures taken with flash arrived looking fine, regardless of whether consumed in extremely low light. Pictures with moving subjects would not turn out also. The camera did actually have trouble focusing when anything in the frame moved. The same happened during video recording: sounds were obtained perfectly, but moving the camera even the slightest caused the entire picture to get blurry.

Call Quality and Battery life
Call quality is average. While everything sounded clear on my end, the people I called reported some minor hissing and static on the side of the call. 2 different people informed me that we almost sounded like I had been talking in to a tin can. Read more cellphone review and guide.