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When the first wave of Windows Phone 7 handsets washed up on our shores back in October one handset was noticeable by both its absence and its form factor - the Dell Venue Pro. Now however it's finally made it to Blighty if only through third-party suppliers rather than from Dell itself.
As far as looks go, the Venue has a lot going for it as its certainly is a handsome and well made bit of kit. Dell has gone all out to make it look and feel a boardroom quality item with a gloss black body, chrome edging and stylish patterned back. The bevelled edges and slightly curved screen glass add to its aesthetic appeal.
The look and feel come at the expense of size and heft though – at 192g it's very heavy for a mobile phone and the 15.2mm thickness will further help ruin the drop of your suit. Like the Palm Pre and Blackberry Torch, the Venue Pro is vertical slider, a form factor with a lot going for it if you want to swap back and forth between keyboard and touch screen while still holding your phone like a phone.
The backlit four-line keyboard features 38 hard plastic keys each with a slightly domed profile. Though a cold and little lifeless to the touch the keys have a pleasant and solid action when pressed. Being with battery like dell Precision M65 battery, dell Precision M60 battery, dell Precision M70 battery, dell Precision M90 battery, dell Studio 17 battery, dell Studio 1745 battery, dell N855P battery, dell Studio 1749 battery, dell Vostro 1200 battery, dell RM628 battery fairly compact you can reach them all with your thumb if you are doing things one-handed.
The slide action that moves the two halves of the phone apart is nicely weighted and free of play. The opening push requires a fair amount of force but I'd rather that than something that slides open too easily.
Under the hood you get all the modern smartphone goodies including 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, a 1GHz CPU with 512MB of Ram and a 5Mp camera. Storage is limited to 8GB but unlike the Android horde there is no DIY MicroSD expansion. The Venue's 480 x 800 screen is a cracker. At 4.1in it's the second largest available on a WinMo handset after the HTC HD7 and the AMOLED panel is bright and lustrous. It also has a robust viewing angle – only slightly hampered by the curved screen – and good daylight visibility.
This is the first time I have used a Windows Phone 7 handset in anger and while it won't lure me away from Android anytime soon it's not without its good points and for anyone new to this smartphone malarkey it's certainly worth a look. The UI is consistently fast and very fluid and the live tile design is appealing to look at and easy to master. Web browsing is every bit as satisfying as it is on the likes of an iPhone 4 or Desire HD, helped by the very fast page rendering and excellent multi-touch reactions.
It's not all rosy though. At the time of writing WP7 still doesn't support Flash video, though rumour has it that a future update will fix this and bring copy-and-paste too. More serious failings in my eyes are the absence of USB tethering and drag'n'drop content transfer – I'd no more buy a phone that ties me to Zune than I would one that ties me to iTunes.
Dell has added nothing to the WinMo7 stew – so there is no equivalent of the HTC Hub that appears on the company’s new Windows phones – but that's not to say the Venue is short on software. The Office suite and Xbox Live gaming features alone will attract some buyers and the People Hub social network aggregation systems work well.
If you do want to add some spice there are now over 7,000 apps in the WP7 Marketplace and the number is rising fast. Agreed, that is a tiny number compared to the Android and Apple markets but the Marketplace already has many of the important bases covered – a Kindle app for the platform appeared recently. One thing the Marketplace is short on is satnav apps but as with Flash 10.1, the scuttlebutt has it that free turn-by-turn navigation is soon to be added to Bing Maps on WP7.
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