Verizon Announces HTC Trophy, First Windows 7 Phone

May 20th, 2011 by Sherri L. Smith, LAPTOP Staff Writer  

It’s official: Verizon’s first Windows 7 phone, the HTC Trophy, will go on sale May 26th in Verizon’s online store. The Windows 7-powered device will be available in brick-and-mortar stores the following week, on June 2nd.

The HTC Trophy will cost $149 after a $50 mail-in rebate and signing up for a two-year contract. According to the Las Angeles Times, the rebate will be distributed via their phones as a debit card.

The phone will run on Verizon’s 3G service and feature a 3.8-inch WVGA touchscreen with 480 x 800 resolution, 1-GHz Snapdragon processor, 16 GB of memory, SRS WOW HD (for surround sound), a 5-megapixel camera with auto-focus and 720p HD video capture, and Wi-Fi connectivity (802.11 b/g/n). Consumers who purchase a Trophy before July 15th will have their choice of a free copy of Xbox 360 titles Halo: Reach, Kinect Sports, or Lode Runner.

Windows 7 phones continue to trail behind Android and iOS-powered mobile devices, with a dismal estimate of 1.6 million phones sales in Q1 2011. Microsoft needs a flagship device to convince consumers to jump on the Windows 7 bandwagon. Photos of the Trophy reveal a good-looking device, but that won’t be enough to stave off the competition in the coming months. The Trophy is already outgunned by phones equipped with dual-core processors such as the HTC Thunderbolt and the upcoming Droid Bionic. The lack of full-on multitasking is worrisome, as well.

One thing that could work in Microsoft and Verizon’s favor is Mango, the major smartphone platform update. Mango is reported to include speech-to-text functions, QR tag recognition, barcode scanning, and a number of other features. However, this update isn’t scheduled to be released until sometime later in the year.  Trophy has the ability to see solid sales, but in the coming months it will need more than Xbox Live access to win the race.

Via Los Angeles Times, PCMag.com

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4 Responses to “Verizon Announces HTC Trophy, First Windows 7 Phone”

  1. Big Mike Says:
    May 20th, 2011 at 8:18 pm

    I believe that the Thunderbolt is a 1GHz Qualcomm MDM9600 and not a dual-core phone as this article states

  2. wirecup Says:
    May 21st, 2011 at 2:57 am

    I am under the impression that MS has already specified new hardware requirements to be able to run Mango. If correct, why sell/buy this now since it probably will not be upgradable (no one is talking about WP7 devices being upgradable to Mango)? Isn’t anything that is now using WP7, dead meat already? Politicians would call it a lame duck device.

  3. i told u so.com Says:
    May 21st, 2011 at 10:22 am

    though understanding the thunderbolt and other phones with these dual core processors, it really means nothing since its all about the experiance. For the most part in all WP7, all work flawlessly and with no hiccups so the avg customer do not care about dual core, or single core etc, they just want things to work when they want it to and WP7 does just that without all this nonsense of whtats inside it. We also know that 4G LTE and or Wimax at this point is nothing to brag about when it comes to battery life (I need a phone that last me the whole day not 4 or 5 days). Until battery technology gets better, I have no problem waiting a extra 5 to 10 seconds to load a page (which is really just that nowadays) if it means I can make it through 16 to 22 hours a day without worring about finding a charger (which is what I get with the HTC Arrive on heavy usage too). So right now they say WP7 has 3.3million or so users which is very good, and We will soon see a slide to android oversaturation soon especially when HP’s Webos rebirths. People will start to see real innovation, and I see more people shifting to Webos, and WP7 because they offer that, as well as not so many different phones with just a spec bump here and there, with fragmentation, and a non innovated OS.

  4. i told u so.com Says:
    May 21st, 2011 at 10:25 am

    (I need a phone that last me the whole day not 4 or 5 days).

    i mean 4 or 5 hours

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