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February 2011
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The editors liked
The full sliding keyboard is perfect
Makes it easier to type text messages and emails
Very affordable price
Build quality is solid
Good support for Microsoft's services
Premium design
Brilliant Super AMOLED display
Comfortable keyboard
Loud speakers
Gorgeous AMOLED display
Good camera
Gorgeous build. Terrific keyboard. Huge screen. Windows Phone 7 has excellent media
Gaming
And productivity support.
Snazzy looks
Great Windows Phone 7 OS with latest software...
Sharp
Sleek design
Gorgeous 4.1-inch AMOLED touchscreen
WP7 is gorgeous
Priced right
One of the most wellappointed WinMo phones to date. Tough Gorilla Glass screen takes all kinds of abuse. Comfortable
Idiotsimple QWERTY keypad. Snappy boot time
The Dell Venue Pro features an attractive design with a large
Sharp display and comfortable keyboard. The smartphone runs smoothly on a 1GHz Snapdragon processor
Beautiful and solid design
Usable physical portrait keyboard
Responsive platform
Fairly inexpensive
The editors didn't like
Thick and heavy
Huge gap between Windows Phone's marketplace and Google Play Store or App Store
Horrible camera
Short battery life
Although the Dell Venue Pro is not blazingly fast and well packed with apps
It still can serve the basic needs of phone
Quite heavy
Froze a couple of times
Lacks 4G support
Sluggish camera
Keyboard is a bit cramped
Windows Phone 7 is missing some key features
Fluctuating reception. Short battery life. No HSPA+. Poor photo quality in low light.
Suited to large hands and pocketsLook and Feel...
WP7 needs some refinement
Cannot add storage
No tethering support
Not exactly pocketfriendly. Craptastic camera performance in lowlight settings. Handoffs between apps and the web are still jarring. Slightly curved display is a smudge magnet. Trickle of WinMo apps limits potential
The smartphone is large and heavy. It doesn't support the T-Mobile HSPA+ network. Call and speakerphone quality could be better
The full sliding keyboard is perfect, makes it easier to type text messages and emails, Very affordable price, Build quality is solid, Good support for Microsoft's services,
Thick and heavy, Huge gap between Windows Phone's marketplace and Google Play Store or App Store, Horrible camera, Short battery life, Although the Dell Venue Pro is not blazingly fast and well packed with apps, it still can serve the basic needs of phone
Abstract: Dell made a shaky entrance into the Windows Phone 7 market. You had supply issues, quality control issues and software headaches. Slowly but surely these problems are getting ironed out with the Venue Pro but does it leave consumers with a quality Windows...
The Dell Venue Pro has to be one of the best designed smartphones from the company, with a very polished looking industrial design. That being said, overall it turned out to be a pretty mediocre phone, thanks to the low camera quality, and average bat...
There aren't a lot of reviews that would rank a smartphone as 'Excellent' but the Dell Venue Pro has all the right parts to push it to that level. The phone, when seen in person is just absolutely beautiful. The 4.1 inch screen is one of the lar...
Sharp, sleek design, Gorgeous 4.1-inch AMOLED touchscreen, WP7 is gorgeous, Priced right
WP7 needs some refinement, Cannot add storage, No tethering support
We feel like we end up repeating ourselves somewhere here, but the smartphone market is blossoming in a major way. Every other week or so, we're seeing yet another flagship phone ship from the major players, and while Dell wasn't even a part of this marke...
I'm going to put this one out there - of the current crop of Windows Phone 7 devices, the Venue Pro is my favorite. It's exceedingly well designed and well built, but the biggest difference between this and similarly well designed products from HTC and Sa...
Abstract: Microsoft seemed ready to take over the mobile world with the launch of Windows Phone 7, but so far we’ve seen only a handful of phones. The Dell Venue Pro ($100 with a two-year contract from T-Mobile) is an affordable yet powerful WP7 offering. It is...
Abstract: Happy Friday to all and sundry, and today, we’ve got a nice new cell phone to close out the week on. It’s a little something new from the crew out at T-Mobile, and it’s the Dell Venue Pro, another of those Windows 7 phones that will do some really imp...
One of the most wellappointed WinMo phones to date. Tough Gorilla Glass screen takes all kinds of abuse. Comfortable, idiotsimple QWERTY keypad. Snappy boot time
Not exactly pocketfriendly. Craptastic camera performance in lowlight settings. Handoffs between apps and the web are still jarring. Slightly curved display is a smudge magnet. Trickle of WinMo apps limits potential