Display & Audio
The X7500 has an excellent 5 inch VGA display. Although the phone’s specification states that it’s VGA, the Windows Mobile OS doesn’t look like it. You need to install a third party application called MvRTrueVGA if your want a real VGA experience. This application is great because it makes real use of the 5 inch display by making everything a lot smaller so more can fit on the display. Since the 5 inch display is bigger than any other PPC, it makes sense to make better use of the size. For example when going to Start-programs you can see all of the programs on your device instead of having to scroll trough all of them. Also you can view a lot more on the screen and is still readable. Web browsing is also a lot more efficient because you can view the whole webpage as if you’re on your home computer.
Currently there are only two devices from HTC that have a VGA display; HTC Universal and X7500 and both are very big in size. I am not sure why HTC only makes VGA displays on large devices when they can make it on even the smaller devices with smaller screens. Currently most HTC phones have a QVGA display with a 240x 320 resolution.
The X7500 is great for listening to music. The headphone jack is 3.5 mm so you can use any of your favorite headphones. In past HTC devices the audio port was the same as the charging port. I am not a big fan of having a mini USB for listening to audio.
The phone has two programs built in for listening to music; Windows Media Player and HTC’s Audio Manager. For normal day to day use with headphones, I use Audio manager due to the iPod-like interface. With audio manager you can create play-lists, arrange songs by title, album, artist and more. One aspect of the audio manager I liked a lot was the ability to trim your favorite songs in order to use them for ring tones.
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