New Windows Phone 7 HTC Device at FCC

Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC should soon come to the market with its first handsets powered by Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 operating system, and some info on one of these handsets has just emerged over at FCC.

To be more precise, it seems that a new Windows Phone 7 HTC handset has just received approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and that it sports a yellow ID label, just as you can see in the photo to the left.

Interestingly enough, this device was spotted at FCC with support only for European cellular networks, suggesting that it might not be released in the US after all.

Although no US-compatible WCDMA or EV-DO connectivity is included in this mobile phone, EDGE 850 / 1900 capabilities are there, and the same applies to Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth.

However, this does not mean that HTC won't be delivering the handset to the market in the United States, though it would most probably do so through launching a new flavor of it, which might emerge over at FCC in the near future.

According to a recent article on Engadget, a few other aspects of the story should be taken into consideration too.

Among them, we can count the fact that the yellow ID label HTC has filed at FCC suggests that this Windows Phone 7 device might turn into a fashionable smartphone in the end, though this still has to be confirmed.

All in all, it seems that HTC is moving closer to pushing out the door its first devices powered by Microsoft's new mobile operating system iteration.

This does not come as a surprise, that's for sure, especially since HTC is the largest provider of Windows mobile-based handsets on the market.

However, with a wide range of news that emerged lately on Windows Phone 7 devices from other phone makers, we were wondering when HTC's solutions would start making it to the headlines again.