If you’ve been using PDAs long before Apple unveiled the first iPhone on 2007 (which started the smartphone war by the way), you are familiar with HTC’s HD series powered by the now extinct Windows Mobile platform. Fast forwarding to 2010 after the release of HTC HD7 (a.k.a HTC HD3) –- one of the company’s first Windows Phone 7 handset. A new rumor mill surfaced today from Romania claiming the possibility of its successor, simply called as “HD8”.
There’s really nothing much to unearth here if you’re looking for specs but the real meat is all about the platform HD8 might use. As insiders suggest, the handset is running Windows Phone 7 Build 7740 which could be the beta of Windows Phone 8 (popularly known as Apollo) we first heard last year when Microsoft launched Mango (7.5).
However, this tittle-tattle report doesn’t give any hint about Microsoft’s plans when will it be unveiling its first Windows Tango phone. If our sources are correct, this should be the first smartphone going to be introduced this year before Apollo. Still, we’re keeping our fingers crossed if the Redmond giant will try to hit an ice-breaker this CES week or MWC happening on February.
So are you excited to see HTC HD8 powered by Windows Phone 8?
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