Hasta La Gadget!

Aha! The phone you heard about here first has made its second document-based appearance, this time crossing the Atlantic and showing up on a T-Mobile inventory sheet. We can apparently look forward to accessorizing our HD7s with a leather sleeve, a “charge shell,” a pair of different screen protectors, and two flexible protective covers made by Speck. Most of these parts are expected to arrive on November 1, and since accessories aren’t much good without something to put them on, we can probably expect that to mean the HD7 will be dropping some time before November. It’s expected on October 18 in the UK, which dovetails neatly with the idea of it being a headline Windows Phone 7 device from HTC — that’s about the time Microsoft promised WP7’s European launch.

As to that “Dell Claire” you see near the top, we’re hearing it’s the T-Mo version of the Dell Streak.

[Thanks, John and Jakub]

HTC HD7 resurfaces on a T-Mobile accessories list, could be with us by November 1 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Microsoft has already gone on record saying that Windows Phone 7 will be initially launching in just five languages, all with essentially the same easy character set — English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish — but they’re undoubtedly champing at the bit to ramp that list up to a few more. In fact, the latest word on the street is that they’re going to be cutting a bunch of corners on those additional tongues, presumably in an effort to get them on shelves sooner rather than later. Not a bad strategy, perhaps, but the rumored list of features on the chopping block is an ugly one: Xbox Live support, Zune functionality, and “limited” Windows Phone Marketplace capability, just to name a few, and only the browser and email views will actually support the native character sets; phone menus and keyboards will initially be in one of the “big five.” As much as we’d like to see WP7 in as many places as possible right away, we’d have to say this is too great a sacrifice if true — all the best stuff would be gone. Keep chugging, guys.

Microsoft bringing Windows Phone 7 to some languages without Xbox Live or Zune? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You might remember that a huge roadmap document leaked out of HTC late last year; though many of the devices in it never materialized, the fact that the Legend, Bravo, and Photon turned out to be legit (as the Legend, Desire, and HD Mini, respectively) lends credence to the belief that all of the phones in that slide deck were at least on HTC’s drawing board at one time or another. One of the more interesting MIA handsets — the so-called Trophy with WinMo 6.5 and a portrait QWERTY keyboard — looks like it may have been repurposed as a Windows Phone 7 model thanks to some new shots out of Vodafone Germany’s inventory system, which is pretty awesome considering how difficult portrait QWERTY devices are to come by, generally (though it would’ve had to get a redesign with a higher-res display and faster processor to meet Microsoft’s spec guidelines). Along the same lines, LG’s well-leaked E900 has recently gotten its blessing from the Global Certification Forum where it’s listed with 900 / 2100MHz 3G (HSPA, we’re sure) alongside quadband GSM. Certainly going to be an interesting fall, isn’t it?

[Thanks to everyone who sent these in]

Windows Phone 7 device roundup: LG E900 earns GCF certification, HTC Trophy meets Vodafone originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Remember when Nintendo said it’d release its release date for the 3DS autostereoscopic portable game system on the 29th of this month? We may already have the magic number — depending on how you interpret a few Japanese words. You see, a supposed video game accessory designer by the handle “nocchisan” recently tweeted that eleven Nintendo 3DS accessories will be released on November 11th, and asked his or her followers to kindly buy them up… while purportedly remarking that the 3DS itself will arrive at the same time. While the tweets in question can certainly be read that way, and it makes a certain amount of sense for accessories to appear at launch, our admittedly limited grasp of Japanese suggests an alternative translation: that it’s the accessories themselves (and not the 3DS) that will all arrive at the same time. There’s also the little matter of nocchisan himself, whose Twitter account has already disappeared — we have nothing actually connecting him to the accessory company except a link in his tweet.

Rumor pegs Nintendo 3DS for November 11th in Japan originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The stars are really aligning for this shindig HTC has scheduled in London for next week, aren’t they? All signs point to the launch of the Android-powered Desire Z and Desire HD — international versions of the G2 and EVO, respectively — and this render pulled off of German site BestBoyZ matches up perfectly with in-the-wild shots we’ve seen of the HD before. The only sticking point, really, is that there’s a Windows Mobile 6.5 Sense UI shot inexplicably plastered on top, which makes about as much sense as… well, re-releasing the HD2 right now. Bottom line, we think the hardware part of this picture is real; software, not so much.

[Thanks, Kamal]

HTC Desire HD rendered, looks pretty legit to us — oh, except for that WinMo UI originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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