I’ve been playing with the HTC Arrive for the past two weeks. The Arrive is Sprint’s first foray into the world of Windows Phone 7. But instead of HTC making a phone with a different design, they took many cues from one of their previous phones on Sprint, the HTC Touch Pro2. The Arrive ends up being a decent phone on the Sprint network, but I still feel HTC could have done a far better job.

Software

I’m not going to spend much time on the software of the Arrive, because Windows Phone 7 has not changed much from my review of the HTC Surround. The biggest difference in the Operating System (OS) from the Surround is the addition of “NoDo,” the latest update from Microsoft for the phone OS. “NoDo” has changed three huge aspects of the phone. The first is allowing the Windows Phone OS to be used on either Verizon or Sprint. The second is finally bringing copy and paste to the devices. And the third is fixing bugs in the OS. I have definitely noticed that the phone is quicker than what I experienced earlier in the year. Everything else that you would expect from the Windows Phone OS is there, from the integrated live tiles and Facebook to the ability to access Xbox Live.

Source: Towerlight