Verizon's first WP7 phone may be the HTC Trophy

15.11.2010
The HTC Trophy will be the first Windows Phone 7-based Verizon Wireless smartphone, according to several reports on the Web today.

A Verizon spokeswoman, who last week said the company plans to sell WP7-based smartphones next year, delined to confirm the reports about the HTC Trophy.

Verizon, a CDMA-based carrier, will get the HTC Trophy in 2011, according to a Verizon pamphlet that , Engadget and other tech Web sites today.

The Trophy has a 3.8-inch touchscreen , a 5 megapixel camera and Wi-Fi support. The device offers 512 MB of internal memory, 16GB of onboard storage. The includes an offer to Microsoft employees that it will sell them the device for $199.99 upon launch "in early 2011."

Apparently, word of Verizon's interest in WP7 has been slow to get out as there were several reports today about a Nov. 8 saying it is "excited" to sell WP7 phones as soon as they are ready from Microsoft.

There have been questions about Verizon's interest in WP7, especially since the carrier had little success selling the predecessor phones and discontinued them in June. it would resurrect thousands of retired Microsoft Kin phones as feature phones without wireless data capability later this year.