HTC has made its long-unofficial ‘Leo’ smartphone official; the Windows Phone will be sold as the HTC HD2 beginning later this month in Europe.
According to SlashGear, we in the U.S. will have to wait until early next year (March 2010 at the latest) to get our hands on HTC’s latest Über-phone.
In addition to its 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, the HTC HD2 features a large 4.3-inch multi-touch display, a 5MP display and HTC’s Sense UI, currently found on the company’s Android phones.
We first told you about the HTC Leo (aka HTC Pro.Three) last month. Over the subsequent weeks, we’ve seen rumors and speculation on the upcoming Windows Phone trickle out, but today we’ve got some hard news to pass along.
The ai.rs Blog, which provided the original HTC Leo information, has posted a new video of the Leo (seen below), along with the assertion that the phone features a capacitive touchscreen with multi-touch.
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Rumors concerning the HTC Leo have been floating around for a while, and now thanks to the ai.rs blog, we we may just have our first glimpse of the upcoming Windows Phone.
The HTC Leo, according to the same blog, will be powered by a Qualcomm MSM8250 1GHz Snapdragon CPU and Windows Mobile 6.5, have a 5MP digital camera, a 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a standard 3.5mm audio jack, a microSDHC flash memory card slot, 512MB of flash storage and GPS.
This image looks to be a rendering rather than an actual product photo, but HTC often releases its first product images in this way. Of course, without official confirmation, this image and all of the details surrounding the Leo should be treated as rumor.
The ai.rs blog suggests this model will be released somewhere in the world by October; perhaps, but we figure such a device won’t make an appearance until (at least) early 2010 – hope we’re wrong.
