HTC Mozart - hardware bits

Okay hardware specs is everything for a phone. Especially in windows phone 7. Microsoft has pretty much underlined the base specs for the OS and phone companies try to differentiate their product through the hardware. Bigger screen. Better camera. Better sound. HTC approached it a bit differently, instead of putting the ultimate hardware into just one phone, they spread it up across their wp7 offering. HD7 got the big screen, the Mozart got the camera, Surround got the slide out speakers etc. Samsung went with the AMOLED screen route. You get the idea.

So what does the hardware specs look like for the Mozart.

1 GHz Scorpion processor, Adreno 200 GPU, Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon chipset - this is somewhat standard across all HTC initial wp7 offering. Performs well in terms of sprightliness and smoothness in handling the requirements of wp7. The Mozart comes with 8GB of storage with 512 MB of ROM and 576 MB of RAM. I think the RAM is one of the highest amongst all the wp7 phones launched. Dimensions of the phone is 119 x 60.2 x 11.9 mm and weighs just 130 grams. The phone build quality is excellent. It has that premium device feel to it, well that's probably down to the whole brushed aluminum thingy it got going on.

HTC 7 Mozart

The display is 3.7 inch S-LCD, 480x800 resolution. SLCD is no amoled, but i found the display quite good but still, under direct sunlight u do have to squint la a bit ;).

The camera is 8 megapixels with auto focus and xenon flash. Impressed? Well specs alone won't do it la for a camera. I have some issues with the camera. The two step flash, the auto focus in capturing videos, can't save camera settings - if u set the videocam on HD and exit, it will revert to normal resolution. Been reading other reviews on the camera and they said that the flash was weak and the images are not at par to what an 8 megapixel mobile phone camera with xenon flash should behave like. But, but, but so far the images that i got all look rather okay to me. So i guess its a personal preference thingy?

the camera, flash and speaker grille 

The sound quality however is indisputable. HTC has bung in Dolby Mobile and SRS Enhancements into the phone and the music playback on the phone is excellent. I mean u can use it as your own personal beat box its that good. Well i'm exaggerating of course but it's really good.

Here's some more shots of the phone.

the battery cover slides open..

sim card slot under the battery..

3.5 mm jack and power button..

micro usb slot for charging and data transfer, 

volume rocker on the left side

camera shutter button, activates the camera even from sleep.

touch sensitive buttons..

Next i'll give my overall thoughts on the phone.