Leaked Photo of HTC’s Upcoming Windows 7 Phone

The device is likely to be one of the smartphones that are planned for unveiling at HTC’s press event scheduled for a Sept. 1 release. The HTC Eternity, another Mango-based smartphone, is also rumored to be revealed at the event.

The rumored 3.8-inch Omega will arrive in a white/silver color combination. An aluminum body construction is also expected. The device maybe renamed as HTC Radar upon release.

The first images of HTC’s upcoming Windows 7 Mango-based smartphone, known as HTC Omega, were apparently leaked and picked up by pocketnow.com.

The device is alo rumored to arrive with an 8 MP rear-facing camera with LED flash and a front-facing camera, and will be powered by a 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 SoC (likely to be single-core) and include 512MB of RAM. The device is also expected to start the era of Skype integration on Windows Phone 7 devices for video chat.

The other HTC smartphone, Eternity, is rumored to be the higher-end model with a much larger 4.7-inch AMOLED display, pocketnow.com reported.

Previously, images of HTC Android-based Holiday’s prototype were leaked. The device featured a large "CALIFORNIA" sticker on its cover or on the back, which may mean that the device will be released in various parts of the U.S. with different cases.

forum.xd Prototypea-developers.com: HTC Holiday

If the rumored specifications for Holiday are true, then the device will arrive with a 1.2GHz processor, a 4.5-inch qHD display at 960x540 pixel resolution. A "myAT&T" app in one menu suggests the smartphone will be released through AT&T.

Previous rumors said that the device will also have a 1GB RAM and an 8 MP rear and a 1.3 MP front-facing camera.

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