The 5-megapixel camera on the Arrive did a pretty good job with still life shots. Colors looked balanced and pictures taken with flash came out looking fine, even when taken in extremely low light. Pictures with moving subjects did not turn out as well. The camera seemed to have trouble focusing when anything in the frame moved. The same thing happened during video recording: sounds were picked up just fine, but moving the camera even the slightest caused the entire picture to become blurry.

Conclusion

The HTC Arrive is the first Windows Phone 7 phone for Sprint, but it doesn't offer anything new that we haven't already seen in other WP7 phones other than the fact that it is a CDMA phone. If you are on Sprint and have been desperate to try out a new smartphone OS, the Arrive is worth checking out. For others, it may be worth waiting to see what other WP7 phones are coming down the pipeline or choosing one of Sprint's many Android offerings, like the almost identical .