DELL VENUE PRO DEL VNUE PRO

fully-customisable home screen looks fantastic on the Venue Pro's 4.1-inch AMOLED touch screen. Pull it upwards and you reveal a full, if cramped, QWERTY keyboard.

Live hubs, including People, Games, Pictures, Music and Video, Office and Market Place provide plenty of content, though without folders it can become cluttered.

Enter Windows Live details and the Venue Pro automatically syncs with your Xbox Live account, allowing your avatar to roam about the home screen. There's a good selection of games available, many of them on a free trial basis.PC users will need Zune software to transfer media, whereas Mac users have the significantly less confusing Windows Phone 7 Connector.The 1GHz processor is swift and the AMOLED screen crisper than the E7S. But the five-meg stills are disappointing, while the 720p video has a poor refresh rate, appearing blurred and marred by noise.

TECH SPECS 

Os Windows Phone 7

Processor 1GHz

Ram 512MB 

Screen 4.1 inches. 800x480 AMOLED 

Connectivity 10.2Mbps HSDPA.B/G Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1.3.5mm. A-GPS. HDMI

Storage 8GB 

Rear camera 5-meg/720p video at 24fps

Front camera N/A

3G talk time 420 minutes

Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7. The main screen has customizable Uve Tiles with real-time updates from the Web and social networks, ltdrives large displays—we've seen it on phones with 4.3-inch screens—and supports networked, player-to-player gaming. One omission: At press time, it lacked cut and paste. The older Windows Mobile OS remains on a few phones, none of which we now recommend. APPS There were about 1,000 at press time. The system can access movies and music in Zune marketplace.