The new HTC 7 Pro is initially bound for the Sprint CDMA network in the US, though HTC indicate this smartphone will also be available in GSM configurations for European and Asian markets.

 

This is a Windows Phone
7 handset, and the main differentiator between this and other HTC WP7 devices is the slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Other features include a 3.6" 480 x 800 pixel display, a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash and HD video recording, 3.5G support, WiFi and GPS. The processor is a 1GHz unit (presumably a Snapdragon), combined with 448Mb of RAM and 8GB of internal Flash memory.

 

Other standard features include Bluetooth 2.1, USB 2.0, a multimedia player, 3.5mm audio socket and a digital compass.
The HTC 7 Pro is largely like every other Windows Phone 7 device when it comes to software. Microsoft's new operating system
is very different from older versions, and it certainly looks and feels very different from the iPhone
or Android. As with other WP7 phones, the HTC 7 Pro is a very powerful device which should appeal to high-end users.

HTC say that the CDMA version of the HTC 7 Pro should be available on the Sprint network sometime in the first half of 2011, with no indication of when (or if) we might see this handset on other carriers worldwide