Hi folks this blog is a hands on review of the China phone HD7 runing Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread sponsored by Sciphone Settings.
I am no stranger to the Android mobile OS an have been a fan since my first Android the Acer Liquid S100 back in 2009, it was a fantastic midrange smart-phone which got me hooked onto the Android. Since then I've used several other mobile platforms including the iphone which I must say is very smooth but I don't feel comfortable using Apple products for personal reasons.
Anyway the HD7 is a sleek looking Android smart-phone which is a clone of the popular HTC HD7 but that is where the familiarities end, although the store will claim the cloned HD7 runs a dual core 1024Mhz processor this is totally not true yes the phone has 2 processors but the MTK6513 650mhz runs the android system while the ARM 416MHz DSP chip runs the phones GSM to make and receive phone calls.
650MHz chip for this phone is just not enough processing power for this phone and not to mention that it has only 256mb of RAM making the phone run very slow and sluggish that's the last thing you want from a smart-phone which will have you pulling your hair out.
I found the phones booting Time to be very slow at 1 minute 59 seconds from pressing the power on to phone coming on-line ready to use. The other disappointing thing was that the battery Stand by time is around 12 hours and thats without any wifi or any other connections or phone calls which is not realistic situation as owners of any smart-phones know if your not making calls your surfing the Internet or using some kind of app. If you use the phone for the purpose it was made for then the battery lasts around disappointing 3 hours with wifi connected surfing and making phone calls you'll probably need to be connected to the mains charging the phone at least 4 time as a regular user.
The main Camera on the back of the phone is stated to be a 5Mega Pixel but having used 5MP cameras on my previous phone it's very unlikely to be true it looks more like a 3.2MP and the two led flash lights are just not bright enough to provide light for the camera. The camera on the front of the phone is not worth using at all as the image quality is very poor waist of space if you ask me.
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One of the other major problem is that none of the Voice over IP apps such as Skype, Tango, Gtalk and Viber will work on this phone I'm not quite on the reason why but I have tried them all one by one and it's a no go!
| Specifications as advertised by Mart-shopping China Retailer | |
| Model | HD7 |
| network | GSM850/900/1800/1900MHZ |
| Amounced | 2011.9.18 |
| status | available |
| Dimensions | 120mm*65mm*10mm |
| Weight | 365g(in all) |
| Display | 4.3 Inch Capacitive Touch Screen |
| Ringtone type | Polyphonic(64 chords) |
| Vibration | yes |
| Phonebook | 1000 |
| Call records | yes |
| Card slot | Micro sd (T-Flash),support 32G TF card |
| Internal memory | 220MB |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth,GPS,WIFI,JAVA |
| Data transfer | USB cable/udisc/Bluetooth(voice stereo) |
| Messaging | SMS,MMS |
| Processor | MTK6513,dual core 1024Mhz |
| User profiles | General,meeting outdoor,indoor,headset,bluetooth |
| Ringing | support MP3,WAV,WMA formats files |
| Media play | support 3GP(H.263),MPEG4,RealVideo,RMVB,WMV formats files |
| Camera | dual camera,5 million pixels,1.3 million pixels |
| Games | Games,dynamic games |
| Multi-language interfaces | BahasaIndonesia,bahasamelayu,deutsch,English,espanol, french,italian,portuguese,Turkish, Russian,Traditional Chinese,Simplified Chinese |
| Additional features | Google Latitude,calculator,browser,voice recorder, task manager,calendar,clock,radio,mobile QQ,Sogou input method,search,gallery,analog TV,music,video, gmail,es file browser,super compass,navigation, electronics,e-mail, |
| Battery | 1880mah Li-ion battery |
This is a very poor clone of the HTC HD7 although it they look very similar thats where the familiarities end, the processor is not a dual core but has two chips one for the operating system while the arm runs the gsm so even the marketing and statments that this site has made are false. It's a peice of junk don't throw your money away get a secound hand original by paying a little more as you will be very disopointed with this phone.
After realising the poor quality of the phone and the misleading advertising that Mart-Shopping had made to sell this phone I contacted them to ask if I could return the phone there answer was the same as many other Chinese on-line retailers a big fat No!
Marks out of 10 - 3 Don't waist your money on this Android!
