HTC Mozart: first Windows Phone 7 details leak

spec just as Desire HD; just as the launch date

Well this is sneaky! On the day for which probably many people have been waiting as this is when the HTC Desire HD goes on sale, MS is throwing a spanner into the works with the unveiling of the Windows 7 phone. And it looks like it has the same spec as the desire, bar the slightly smaller screen size. It certainly won't change my mind on the choice of my handset on the day but it certainly is an interesting move.

By ThomasR on 4 Oct 2010

The price will be interesting

The one thing Microsoft can afford to do is to subsidise the handsets via marketing "co-op" to get decent initial market share. If its £100 cheaper than the iPhone or equivalent Android phone it might be attractive.

By milliganp on 4 Oct 2010

Leaked by who?

according the the Engadget site, it was "received from an internal Phones 4U system"

But then, blaming the big bully MS is so much nicer to do...

By greemble on 4 Oct 2010

Hope the OS is better than what it was on the XDA!

Moved over to the iPhone after the Nokia e71.
see http://goo.gl/2u7D.

Hope the new windows mobile OS is good. Used to crash a lot and was very slow. And the stylus mode...really clunky.

By SmartIT on 4 Oct 2010

Let's not worry too much about pixels

800x480 on a 3.7" display is 252 pixels / inch which most people won't be able to resolve without eye-strain. It's the equivalent of 1920x1050 on a 9" display!

By milliganp on 4 Oct 2010

@milliganp

Same as the Desire and it is no way a strain on the eyes.

By rowanparker_uk on 4 Oct 2010

Looks Nice

Quite like the look of the handset if the pictures are to be believed. If M$ nail this one I might give WinMo another go...

By EddyOS_2K9 on 4 Oct 2010

hmmm

I know its silly, but i'm still waiting to see if they've tried to stick with the desktop windows paradigm. i know that the underlying API's are the same, but still - does it think its a phone, or a desktop on the move?

By khellan on 4 Oct 2010

Desktop paradigm? R U kidding

Khellan, I don't know where you've been over the last 5 months, but WP7 is based on something called a metro UI and its as far from a "desktop paradigm" as you can think.

That was the problem with the old win 6.xxxx

If you really haven't heard about what they're trying to do, I'd like to go where you live.

As for the phone, bit disappointed so far. I'm at the end of my contract and I am waiting for a phone to come up to me and say "buy me".

Not seen that yet.

By Ajamu1 on 4 Oct 2010

Run that one past me again

@Ajuma1 you're disappointed with a phone you haven't seen which hasn't been released?

By milliganp on 4 Oct 2010