Difference Between Windows Phone HTC Surround and HTC 7 Mozart
Andrew
Windows Phone HTC Surround vs HTC 7 Mozart
Windows Phone 7
Windows phones HTC Surround and HTC Mozart are among the five new Windows phones introduced by HTC together with Microsoft. HTC has introduced five new Smartphones in to its Windows Phone 7 portfolio; HTC 7 Surround, HTC 7 Mozart, HTC 7 Trophy, HTC 7 Pro and HTC HD7. Each one is unique in design and features.
The Smartphones from HTC 7 family are run on Microsoft Windows Phone 7 (WP 7) platform.
MS Windows Phone 7 with a unique Hub and Tile interface has been designed for operational ease. It offers quick and easy access to applications and content. Windows Phone 7 also integrates with many popular Microsoft consumer services such as Xbox LIVE, Windows Live, Bing (search engine) and Zune (digital multi media player).
HTC 7 Surround
The main attraction of HTC 7 Surround is its multimedia features. HTC market this device as ‘Pop up cinema,’ a phone with a richer listening and viewing experience.
This phone, that runs on WP 7 platform is integrated with Dolby Mobile and SRS Wow “virtual surround” and many popular Microsoft consumer services as mentioned above.
The unique feature of HTC 7 Surround is its slide-out stereo speaker and integrated kickstand, delivering high-fidelity audio and virtual surround sound.
HTC 7 Mozart
Running on the same WP 7 platform and integrated with SRS WOW HD, the HTC 7 Mozart is tagged by HTC as “surround yourself with dynamic sound,” a phone powered by high-fidelity audio.
Design
Both phones do not vary much from the classic HTC smartphone family.
HTC Surround:
HTC Surround is having a landscape slider to house stereo speaker and kickstand;It is slightly thicker (0.04”) and heavier (1.23 ounce) due to the slider mechanism.
Size: Height 119.7 mm (4.71”) width 61.5 mm (2.42”) thickness 12.97mm (0.51”) Weight: 165 gm (5.82 ounces) with battery
Instead of QWERTY keyboard under the screen, thequarter-inch slide brings out a speaker bar, together with a button that turns on a virtual surround sound mode. For added dimension and volume, you have to just hit the surround sound button.
On the flip-side is an integrated kickstand to prop the smartphone up for watching videos.
These are the main attractions of this phone.
Some users opine that though the speakers are amazingly loud without distortion, they say the drawback in the design is that, these are the only speakers on the device, so in the closed position the sound quality may drop.
The kickstand is designed for landscape orientation, but most of the navigation buttons are aligned to portrait. Navigation while watching movie in a landscape position may be bit lousy. It’s an improvement required in WP 7.
HTC Mozart:
HTC Mozart is a candy bar, it’s slimmer and light in weight, because of the absence of the slider mechanism.
Size: Height 119 mm (4.69”) width 60.2 mm (2.37”) thickness 11.9 mm (0.47”) Weight: 130 gm (4.59 ounces) with battery
Display
Both HTC Surround and HTC Mozart have Touch screen with pinch-to-zoom capability with a resolution of 480 x 800 WVGA
The screen of HTC surround is slighter bigger than HTC Mozart.
HTC Surround – 3.8” and HTC Mozart – 3.7”
Displays are bright, vibrant and more colour accurate, but some opine that it is bit too bright at the lowest setting and not up to the standard set by the iPhone 4.
CPU Processing Speed
Both phones HTC Surround and HTC Mozart have 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 processor
Storage
HTC Surround:
Internal storage: 16 GB
ROM: 512 MB
RAM: 448 MB
HTC Mozart:
Internal storage: 8 GB
ROM: 512 MB
RAM: 576 MB
Camera
HTC Surround:
5 megapixel colour camera, 2592х1944 pixels,
Auto focus and LED flash
720p HD video recording
Built-in scenes include candlelight, landscape, and portrait
HTC Mozart:
8 megapixel colour camera, 2592х1944 pixels,
Auto focus and Xenon flash
720p HD video recording
Built-in scenes include candlelight, landscape, and portrait
Sensors
Same for both HTC Surround and HTC Mozart
G-Sensor
Digital compass
Proximity sensor
Ambient light sensor
Battery
HTC Surround:
1230 mAh Rechargeable Lithium-ion polymer or Lithium-ion battery
Talk time: WCDMA: Up to 250 mins; GSM: Up to 240 mins
Standby time: WCDMA: Up to 255 hours; GSM: Up to 275 hours
HTC Mozart:
1300 mAh Rechargeable Lithium-ion polymer or Lithium-ion battery
Talk time: WCDMA: Up to 330 mins; GSM: Up to 405 mins
Standby time: WCDMA: Up to 435 hours; GSM: Up to 360 hours
Applications are same for both
HTC Hub
The HTC Hub incorporates the weather in rich 3D and offers a selection of applications, such as: Stocks, Converter, Photo Enhancer, Sound Enhancer, and more. And there are plenty of downloadable apps and games.
Weather app presents the weather in a rich 3D animation, forecasts for your location or other cities, and lets you know exactly what to expect.
The Stocks app lets you view stock prices and check indices. Define up to 30 stocks and track their progress. Rotate to view charts in full-screen detail.
With the Notes app you can post and arrange your notes on a bulletin board, then see them wrinkle and age over time. To view them in a list, just swipe and turn the board over.
Attentive phone
You need get embarrassed at meetings any more with the phone ringing loud. The phone has a good feature; as soon as you lift your phone up the ringer volume gets lower. To silence it completely, you have to just flip it over.
Flashlight
The Flashlight app turns your phone into an LED flashlight with 3 brightness levels. It even flashes an SOS signal in case of emergency.
People Hub
With the People Hub, live feeds and photos are pulled together from Facebook and Windows Live. This viewed by some as a disadvantage.
Me Card
You can view and update your status in Facebook and Windows Live to broadcast your news.
Picture Hub
You could enter a gallery where you and your friends can share your photos and post comment on the pictures your friends have posted on Facebook or Windows Live.
Other features
Windows Phone 7’s camera app is amazingly fast and responsive for quick shots, you can take pictures in seconds, even if the phone is locked. You can post them instantly to Facebook or share them with your friends via email or SMS.
But some negative critics say when you pull the images to a computer that and view on full resolution they are not so vibrant as it appeared in the phone.
You can browse and download your favourite music, movies and TV shows from Zune. You can also preview songs and whole albums before you buy them using your Zune Pass.
With Zune PC companion your phone syncs with your music catalogue on your PC wirelessly and automatically, whenever you charge your phone while on your home network.
With the Photo enhancer you have a add variety of effects to create your photo and adjust colour and brightness for the perfect picture.
With the Sound Enhancer app delivers virtual surround sound and equalizer sound effects for a richer listening and viewing experience. Equalizer presets automatically mix bass, treble and vocal levels for maximum effect, whatever your type of music.
For corporate/business users
Windows Mobile is better-oriented towards business users as it offers out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange, Office documents, VPN access and syncing with Microsoft Outlook on a desktop PC.
Office Hub offers many new features for business users. You can view and edit the latest Office docs on your phone. You can collaborate with colleagues on your projects using SharePoint.
You can use OneNote for organizing ideas, voice notes, pictures, and text and then synchronizing them to the cloud through Windows Live or SharePoint.
Outline offers a quick view of any Microsoft Office document, so you can quickly see what’s in the document and go direct to the location you want.
Bing Search
With Bing, there won’t be any search overload. Bing tries to understand the search you’re doing and organizes the results putting the most relevant (not popular) at the top. It also features voice search, pulls out buried information and displays related searches.
Bing Maps
Locate where you are and find the best route to where you want to be. Satellite images, street maps, 3D landmarks – Bing Maps can flow from a bird’s eye view high above, to a street level view for a more human perspective.
Quick launch
Bring the stuff that matters to you to the surface. You can pin your favorite apps, contacts, even shortcuts to your favorite songs and more to the Start screen for one tap access.
Games
The WP 7 Games Hub delivers a new and exciting kind of gaming experience with hundreds of titles from Xbox LIVE, Microsoft Game Studios and other leading game publishers.
Xbox LIVE
With the popular Xbox LIVE in mobile, you can play with friends, share scores, and earn recognition for your achievements. You can access your Xbox LIVE profile and take your 3D Avatar and props with you on your phone. You can message requesting friends to join and they can see you playing.
With the application drop list in WP 7, you have to move vertically to locate the app, grid format and search not available.
Checking email is a very cool experience with WP 7 and the on screen key board to reply mails is amazing.
The main attraction with the Surround is the speaker bar and the promised “virtual surround” audio. Whether the extra feature outweighs the extra size and added weight is to be tested.