Sprint to announce new phone on Thursday, likely the HTC 7 Pro

By on Feb 21, 2011 at 5:35 PM
mobile February 21, 2011

Sprint revealed on Monday its plans to unveil a new device later this week. In a post to its official Twitter account, Sprint said its next phone will be unveiled on Thursday, February 24th. The carrier gave no indication at first in terms of what phone it might announce, saying only, “What do you think the next new Sprint phone will be? Find out Thursday!” Initial speculation included the unnamed Android-powered QWERTY candy bar phone from Samsung spied earlier this month and the Windows Phone 7 handset Sprint subscribers have been waiting for, the HTC 7 Pro. The latter was then basically confirmed by a more recent Sprint tweet: “If you could design a brand new phone, what would it have? Ours will have a hub for gaming, music, pictures and video.” The HTC 7 Pro features a 3.6-inch touchscreen display, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a 5-megapixel camera and a landscape-oriented slide-out QWERTY keypad.

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  • Qewwfgg

    who cares about windows anymore? oh yeah first lmao

    • Anonymous

      90% of the PC market

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000515578722 Andreas Wilson-Johnson

        Not talking about the pc market smartass smh.

      • Anonymous

        OH you’re so RIGHT! How silly of me. Duh, whoops. lol what was I thinking.

      • da KiNG

        …LOL.

      • Midi45

        Windows phone is quality Don’t hate.

    • http://twitter.com/dustbeta Dustin Schultz

      Umm, me. And most people I would think. I am quite excited to get WP7 on Sprint finally. I can dump my Crapberry Tour!

  • Anonymous

    Didnt Samsung just announce the Galaxy S 2 with all those hubs??

  • Anonymous

    Someone correct me if I’m wrong but are OEMs just not putting WP7 on larger devices so far? I love my EVO, but it would be sweet to see WP7 on a 4.3″

    • Anonymous

      The Dell Venue Pro has a 4.1″ display and the HD7 has a 4.3″ display.

  • Mike

    We over at TechHog [dot] com believe this is the Samsung phone due to the wording of “Hub” which is something that Samsung uses in it’s marketing. I personally believe the “first” Window Phone 7 device on Sprint would deserve or at least garner more than just a tweet.

    • Cer

      Really? WP7 is based on six hubs. WP7 also got its own release celebration at the end of last year. The 7 Pro was announced then. As a result, and due to the as-of-now failure of WP7, all the Pro 7 deserves is a tweet, but I’m sure there will be more before, or at least on, Thursday.

  • Cer

    Hide, please.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000515578722 Andreas Wilson-Johnson

    Loving the hardware for the Windows Phone 7 smartphones but god do i dislike the OS, i hate that tile interface. You see one Windows Phone 7 phone you seen them all.

    • serpentor

      So you’re saying you like skins from Android OEMs and month long waits for updates, or none at all?

  • Securitywiz

    Blah, wp7 and keyboard no thanks

  • JRP

    Isn’t Apple having an event that Same day?????????

  • da man

    if u THiNK about it,all SPRiNT has to do is come with SUCCESORS to the EVO(htc evo2) and the EPiC(galaxy s2) to stay RELEVANT because those two DEViCES,alone,helped them gain subscribers…but,as for the NEW PHONE,all i want to hear is EPiC2.

  • fr3dd0

    no EVO2 = no care…

  • Anonymous

    I may be sick and tired of Windows After dealing with it for 3+ years (HTC Touch & Touch Pro 2) and My TP2 pretty much has Alzheimer’s now but any phone with a TP2 Keyboard deserves a look regardless of its OS.

    • Sp33d0s

      Ummm have you seen the shift? Its almost the same formfactor and similar keyboard to the tp2 but with double the battery life as the evo.

  • Tuscano77

    iPhone for Sprint : ) Apple is rumored to be having an event that same day…….
    (besides, the market is already flooded with enough crappy Android phones
    that they’ve already left behind and unsupported. Who wants another???)

  • Patteach

    Samsung Galaxy S II

  • Patteach

    a sprint employee told me it was a new samsung phone! Samsung Galaxy S II

  • Tblackzx77

    HHow about a rugged Android from Motorola with 2 gig doul core processer

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