14 DAY TRIAL // Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC Corporation was known to plan the release of a nice range of new handsets, some of which would run under Microsoft's upcoming Windows Phone 7 operating system, and a few more details on the matter emerged recently. Although nothing is known for sure at the moment, not even whether these devices would actually be released on the market, we can still have a look at the codenames HTC supposedly chose for them.
HTC is the largest provider of mobile phones running under Microsoft's mobile operating system around the world, and it seems that the company plans on keeping its name on top of that list. At least three new mobile phones running under Windows Phone 7 are said to be under development, in addition to the HTC handsets previously leaked into the wild, such as the Mondrian or Mozart. According to a series of recent tweets from Conflipper (who recently announced his retirement), HTC would also be working on Windows Phone 7 devices such as Salsa, Swing and Tango.
“HTC Salsa(WP7?), HTC Motion, HTC Maestro, HTC Swing(WP7?), HTC Blitz, HTC Sage, HTC Tango(WP7?), HTC Vienna. Guessing on OS not sure on that,” is one of the aforementioned tweets reads. Another one states: “looking at WP7 device Mozart, being a dance, Salsa, Tango, and Swing, are all dances, HTC likes to name devices under same category.” Additional info on these devices was offered in a third tweet: “Maestro looks to be Worldphone, (CDMA + GSM), Swing is a GSM, Swing#C CDMA, Salsa is GSM, and Salsa#C is CDMA, Vienna and Vienna#C.”
All in all, it seems that HTC is pretty busy with designing handsets that would run under the forthcoming Windows Phone 7 operating system, though devices powered by other platforms are also present on the list. On the other hand, none of these phones has been officially confirmed as of yet, and chances are that the company might never bring them to the market, or that it would launch them under different names.
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