14 DAY TRIAL // Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is expected to bring to the market in the near future its first Windows Phone 7 device, the HTC Trophy, and the first photo of this device sporting the company's logo emerged into the wild.
Verizon, the largest CDMA wireless operator in the United States, is expected to make the smartphone available for purchase in the United States sometime in March.
No official announcement on this was made until now, but some of the latest reports around the web suggested that the carrier might make the move as soon as today, February 28th.
Since Sprint, the other largest CDMA carrier in the country, already announced its Windows Phone 7 smartphone, the HTC Arrive, it would make sense for Verizon to make the move as soon as possible.
While Sprint's first device to run under Microsoft's new mobile platform would be the HTC Arrive (HTC 7 Pro), HTC Trophy is rumored to become the first such device at Big Red.
Moreover, some suggest that both handsets might land on shelves with the latest flavor of Windows Phone 7 on board, which features copy/paste support.
According to Engadget, which brought the aforementioned photo to the web, the Verizon-bound device would be physically identical with the HTC Trophy that landed in Europe and elsewhere.
One difference between the two would be the fact that it comes with red highlights around back, instead of the orange-yellow ones on the original.
The emergence of this photo suggests that the HTC Trophy would indeed arrive on shelves at Verizon in the not too far future, though it remains to be seen when exactly that might happen.
If we're to believe the latest suppositions on the matter, Verizon would launch its Windows Phone 7 device sometime in late March, the same as Sprint, which pinned HTC Arrive for a March 20th release. Stay tuned for more info on this.