As expected, it looks like the second Windows Phone 7 device to officially land in India is another HTC phone, the HTC 7 Mozart. Priced at Rs. 26,490 (MOP), the Mozart is cheaper than its punctual WP7 sibling, the HTC HD7, by about Rs. 3,500 – presumably because of the smaller screen size.
That doesn’t mean of course that the HTC 7 Mozart is a diminutive handheld – it has a 3.7-inch SuperLCD screen, and its 119 x 60.2 x 11.9 mm frame is crafted from a single piece of brushed aluminium. This also doesn’t mean that the HD7 is HTC’s only entertainment WP7 device, the HTC 7 Mozart comes packing high-fidelity audio with SRS and Dolby Mobile sound enhancement, remaining true to its namesake musical genius. The phone also features Microsoft Zune integration, so that users can synch media on their HTC 7 Mozart with their PC.
Just like the HD7, the HTC 7 Mozart features HTC’s custom UI on top of WP7, called the HTC Hub, which that works with the WP7 Hub and Tile experience to offer users easy access to their latest and valuable information neatly divided into People, Pictures, Games, Music & Video and Office content.
Unlike the HD7, which launched in partnership with Airtel, another carrier has made its WP7 intentions plain – Tata DoCoMo. Subscribers of the operator will get exclusive data plans for the device.
[RELATED_ARTICLE]Other specs of the phone include an 8MP camera with auto focus and Xenon flash that’s capable of 720p HD video recording, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 576MB of RAM and 512MB of ROM, GPS and A-GPS support, stereo FM with RDS, 8GB of internal storage, and a large 1300 mAh battery that provides up to 6 hours and 40 minutes of 2G talk time, and 5 hours and 30 minutes of 3G talk time. It weighs in at a nice and hefty 130 grams.
All in all, the phone sure seems like it would be able to stand up to the best in the market today, but the strangely enough, it does not support storage expansion with microSD card. While Microsoft seems to have some strange ideas about how microSD expansion should work on Windows Phone 7, the lack of a card slot on a device that has just 8GB of internal storage is a bit…strange.