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Rumour: HTC's first Windows Phone 8 handsets revealed

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Rumour: HTC's first Windows Phone 8 handsets revealed
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After Microsoft's official first look at Windows Phone 8 last night, a source at HTC has apparently revealed the Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer's plans for the platform to The Verge.

It looks like the first three Windows 8 phones from HTC are going to be the entry level Rio, the mid-range Accord, and the Zenith at, well, the zenith.

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The baby of the bunch, the Rio will have a 4-inch WVGA screen, 512MB of on board RAM, and a pretty impressive Qualcomm MSM8227 processor, which is part of the Snapdragon S4 family.

Then there's the accord, with a slightly larger 4.3-inch 720p Super LCD2 screen, and an 8 megapixel camera. It's not clear exactly what processor is going to be running the phone, but the source suggests it's likely to be a dual core Snapdragon with a gig of RAM.

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Finally there's the brutish sounding Zenith, which weighs in with an impressive 4.7-inch 720p Super LCD 2 display, and an as yet unknown quad core Snapdragon processor.

The Rio and the Accord are expected to be released in October, with the Zenith given a vague release date of Q4 2012.

If the source turns out to be correct, it looks like HTC is going to have some pretty impressive Windows Phone 8 hardware out in the wild by the end of the year.

Harry Slater
Harry Slater
Harry used to be really good at Snake on the Nokia 5110. Apparently though, digital snake wrangling isn't a proper job, so now he writes words about games instead.