Some of the first live shots of the HTC HD7 Pro have been revealed, from HTC promotional materials.
The device will be carried by Sprint in the United States, as one of the first Windows Phone 7 CDMA devices.
Few specifications have been pinned down, but the device will resemble the difference between Touch Pro and Touch Diamond in the Windows Mobile 6 era. The device will likely be similar in specification to the HD7 that has already launched on T-Mobile, but with the addition of the slide out, flip-up keyboard. The device’s design closely mirrors that of the prior-generation Touch Pro 2.
In Europe, the HD7 Pro will be sold as a GSM/UMTS smartphone, and it is possible that variant will later be rebadged with carrier-marketed names for AT&T and T-Mobile. Similarly, Verizon may also receive the device after an exclusivity period with Sprint.
Click read more for another photo of the HD7 Pro, fully opened.
Until they bring back the ability to increase the font in windows 7 phone i’m holding off. This is a basic feature that windows mobile has always had. It’s also one of the main reasons i’m sticking with blackberry for now.
you are an idiot to think that. the phone is light years beyond blackberry. blackberry should call themselves Retards in Motion. this is why they have been left behind in the development of smart phones because they never put R & D into it. now all they have is the enterprise and they are losing that too. I was a BB user for 5 plus years. piece of garbage. i might as well browse on a TI-83 calculator, it will be better.
“i might as well browse on a TI-83 calculator, it will be better”
Wow, I hope that’s sarcasm, I had a TI-83 back in high school, and I know they certainly were not that advanced 10 years ago. I would be amazed if Texas Instruments had moved that far along.
Can anyone tell me if this device will be compatible with “Free & Clear” legacy plans??
Sprint has not yet announced Windows Phone 7 compatibility with grandfathered plans.
I suspect, however, that the shift from “Windows Mobile” to “Windows Phone 7” will be enough to give Sprint the internal justification to restrict it to Everything plans, as well as SERO with the $10 Premium Device fee.
Those are obviously pictures of the HTC 7 PRO… With the 3.6″ screen and the physical keyboard.
*** You should correct your page and not list it as the HTC HD7 PRO. Which insinuates a 4.3″ screen with a keyboard ala HD7 from T-Mobile Pro meaning with a Keyboard.
Unless you can confirm a rumor that the HD7 PRO is coming to Sprint as I cannot find any evidence of that device.
AZTECHKA,
It’s very common for HTC to design GSM/UMTS and CDMA hardware in parity. It’s no surprise that the HD7 Pro would look nearly identical to the HD7 and other 7 Pro models.
Sprint is testing the HD7 Pro. We’ve received independent confirmation of that enough times to report it.
Fair enough… However… You cannot tell me that those are actual shots of the phone… Just use your imagination… If that is a 4.3″ screen… That phone has an almost 6″ diagonal case… Not what you would call pocketable and close to the size of an eReader. You call them live shots… I call them recycled shots of the 3.6″ 7Pro. http://www.htc.com/www/product/7pro/specification.html
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I suspect that sprint will most likely, or least try to, force their everything plans on windows phone 7, but I hope I am wrong. If they do then they will probably continue to offer Windows Mobile 6.5 phones for a limited period of time to support people with grandfathered plans and eventually the only choice will likely be to upgrade your plan to get a decent new phone. Sad, but just my opinion, I remember the old days of sprint where it did not matter what plan you had, you could get any phone they offered without being hassled about your plan. Seems that those days have grown further distant since the release of the first Instinct phone which was sprint’s first everything plan required phone. 🙁