Sprint's HTC 7 Pro Windows Phone 7 Emerges in New Photos

Mobile phone carrier Sprint is expected to bring to the market in the United States CDMA-capable Windows Phone 7 devices sometime in the first half of the ongoing year, and some photos with what might be one of these devices have just emerged into the wild.

We're referring here to the HTC 7 Pro mobile phone, which was announced officially in October 2010, when Microsoft and its partners unveiled the new Windows Phone 7 platform and almost a dozen devices powered by it.

However, even if it announced the upcoming availability of this mobile phone, HTC kept mum on the specifications of the device, as well as on the wireless carrier that might release it. Info on the price tag or release date for the new handset lack as well.

This week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced officially that the first CDMA devices running under Windows Phone 7 should be released in the next several months, and the 7 Pro is expected to be among them.

Rumored to bring the new mobile platform to Sprint's airwaves, the handset can be admired in the new photos with it that emerged over at phoneScoop.

The new HTC 7 Pro is expected to land on shelves with a similar design with the Touch Pro2, including the touchscreen display that tilts, and the sliding QWERTY keyboard, though it would certainly boast higher-end specifications.

According to the news site, the handset does not seem to be final as of yet, nor would the Windows Phone 7 platform do a great job at reorienting itself to be displayed in landscape mode.

Even if the model in these photos is said to have been a pre-production unit, it still managed to impress, the news site reports, and the final flavor of this device would certainly do so.

No info on the hardware inside it was unveiled at the moment, nor on the price tag or release date on Sprint's networks, but it should not be too long before these pieces of info emerge.