The HTC 7 Pro was initially an exclusive device for the North American market sold by Sprint for use on its CDMA network. It was the successor to the
HTC Touch Pro2.
As the name suggests, it was skewed towards business users. As with all Windows Phone 7 devices it featured Microsoft's Office Mobile suite offering support for Excel, OneNote, Outlook, SharePoint, PowerPoint and Word — which underlined the business credentials of Microsoft’s mobile operating system despite its core focus on consumer use.
This business focus was also echoed in the design of the 7 Pro, which featured a landscape slide-and-tilt qwerty keyboard.
It was the first Windows Phone 7 device to support CDMA technology, and the complexity of integrating this technology meant that although it was announced in October 2010, it did not ship until March 2011. When Sprint eventually launched the phone it changed its name to the HTC Arrive.
The phone was also sold as the HTC 7 Pro by Alltel Wireless and US Cellular as well as other operators around the world who offered a GSM variant.