It has not been more than a month since the first rumors of an HTC made Windows Phone 7 handset appeared and now, it seems that the Taiwan based mobile phone maker is about to make a second WP7 handset –provided that this and the previously rumored phone are indeed difference smart phones.
The new device, HTC Mozart has been leaked in Australia. Judging from the initial sets of blurry images, the device is going to have a type-1 chassis, which means that it will be using a touch screen as the only user interface. Expect to see a 1GHz CPU, a capacitive touch screen display with WVGA resolution, a 5 mega pixel camera and plenty of RAM –which are the basic requirements for the upcoming Microsoft mobile platform. Aside from that, little is known about this new handset.
Until the Mozart’s specs are revealed, it is hard to tell if it will not be the same handset as the HTC Mondrian that was leaked much earlier. Many believe that it is likely that the two smart phones are different devices.
The Mondrian is a powerhouse in terms of hardware. While Microsoft has already set a minimum set of hardware requirements, the Mondrian is said to have specs that goes beyond the typical WP7 handset. The processor alone is rumored to have a speed of 1.2GHz (which hints that this may be the new Snapdragon CPU).
Windows Phone 7 is considered to be the most impressive operating system ever made by Microsoft and that this new mobile phone OS is expected to come with many new features such as Bing, Zune, Xbox Live Games, Silverlight, MSN Player, and more. Enterprise clients of Microsoft are still expected to use the older 6.5 series as the new operating system focuses more on media playback and integrated social networking.
HTC have had great success with the Google Android OS, producing phones like the HTC Desire and the Google Nexus One, so it will be very interesting to see what they can do with Microsoft’s new OS.
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