HTC Windows Phone 7 Smartphone Leaked, Hitting Verizon Soon? [New HTC Windows Phone 7 Handset Image Hits the Internets, Phone Coming Later This Year]

Posted July 26th 2010 by Chris Smith under Mobile/Cell Phones

This isn’t the first time we show you a leaked HTC Windows Phone 7 handset, but it looks like this model here is a working unit. The phone has been conveniently leaked yesterday evening and what better way to start the new week with a couple of new smartphone rumors and news.

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Earlier today we’ve learned that HTC is making a move for Super LCDs from Sony and now we get to look at this unknown HTC Windows Phone 7 phone (this specific word order will also make me chuckle for a long time to come).

Word on the street is that this phone will also pack a 3.7-inch SLCD display, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, an 8-megapixel camera, touch-sensitive buttons, and, naturally, Windows Phone 7 running the show but with no HTC Sense user interface on top of it. The unit in the picture here is “hardware ready” and that probably means that HTC is just waiting for the final Windows Phone 7 build to become available.

HTC is apparently in talks with two American carriers, one of them being Verizon. The other one might as well be AT&T since we’ve just recently heard the later is interested in no less than 8 million Windows Phone 7 phones in the near future, but it could be Sprint or T-Mobile too since I imagine none of the Big Four want to miss out on Windows Mobile 7 action in the following months, especially with the holiday season coming.

So what’s the name of the HTC device in the picture? Is it the HTC Mondrian? Is it the HTC Spark? Or does this baby come with a different name, and we’ve heard plenty of other name alternatives in the past few days?

Are you still waiting for a Windows Phone 7 handset or have you already purchased an iPhone or Android handset instead?

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2 Comments for “HTC Windows Phone 7 Smartphone Leaked, Hitting Verizon Soon? [New HTC Windows Phone 7 Handset Image Hits the Internets, Phone Coming Later This Year]”

Frank | July 26th, 2010 at 12:31 pm

After the incredibly short lifespan of the most recent Windows phone, the Kin, I’m afraid to invest any money in the next one unless it becomes an immediate hit. Android has tremendous momentum, and can do much more than Windows Phone 7 – multitask, copy/paste, run tens of thousands of apps – and it’s available now across a wide selection of phones. So I chose Android now, and will wait and see on Windows Phone 7.
Matt | July 28th, 2010 at 11:26 pm

I am waiting to buy a WP7. I am an Android developer and have (3) Nexus Ones sitting on my desk right now – but my personal phone is going to be a WP7.

WP7 will be superior in the quality of apps, user experience of apps, media integration with zune / xbox, it will have better computer sync support (through the Zune PC app), better quality of games (XNA), superior ease of use, longer battery life, greater stability, better media codec support (if it matches Zune HD), and really nice search features (the integrated Bing search app is awesome), and it has a far better development environment than Android (VS2010 with a slick emulator using .Net / silverlight / blend vs Eclipse with a POS emulator using Java / magicsauce XML for the UI).

Androids main selling points are Adobe Flash support and tethering (on the 2.2 OS). Unfortunately WP7 will likely never have either of those features. Comparing the whole enchilada WP7 still wins for me though.

I don’t consider 3rd party multitasking support a feature. There are very few mobile applications which require true multitasking other than background music – which WP7 gives you a service to use for that. I don’t want to run a web server on my phone while playing games and answering calls. Tombstoning exists to restore an app to exactly how you left it (fake multitasking). True multitasking can be more of a detriment than a feature once 3rd party devs (and even phone vendors) abuse it (hell – task killer is like the number one Android app).

Copy/paste missing is unfortunate – but it will likely make a future release. I honestly hope true 3rd party multitasking does NOT make it into a future release. I like my battery to stay alive for more than 5 hours.

HTC Windows Phone 7 Smartphone Leaked, Hitting Verizon Soon? [New HTC Windows Phone 7 Handset Image Hits the Internets, Phone Coming Later This Year]

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