The first Windows Phone 7 devices became available last year at the end of October so it’s natural that for the platform to get a new line-up this fall with dual-core support and many other new features. Well, leaks of upcoming WP7 phones have started showing up and we can say that it’s going to be a busy summer for Microsoft and manufacturers who will push even more WP7 hardware to the market.
Elbert Perez is a developer who happens to create Windows Phone 7 applications and several weeks ago he begun posting the stats of his apps. Among the devices that played his games we can find Nokia 800, Acer M310, and HTC Omega among others.
If HTC is an already established Windows Phone 7 seller, while Nokia has already announced a partnership with Microsoft, then we can welcome Acer to the party. We know that Acer has officially said that it will develop a WP7 device but we haven’t seen to many details or references to such smartphone.
The Acer M310 will become the first Acer WP7 smartphone, just like the Nokia 800 which is probably the Sea Ray, a Mango-powered handset leaked several times. It’s unlikely for the Acer WP7 phone to be powered by a dual-core processor, but we can be pretty sure that it will run on the Mango update just like the Nokia Sea Ray which will also feature a single-core processor.
Let’s turn our attention to the Omega – we’ve heard this name before, but not much emphasis was put on it. Now we remember that it’s a WP7 smartphone powered by a single-core 1.5Ghz Snapdragon CPU (like the one found in the HTC Flyer), a 4.3-inch touchscreen with 800 x 480 resolution, 8-megapixel camera on the back with 720p HD video recording, and built-in 16GB flash memory.
None of these devices have been officially announced so far therefore we might be looking at some prototypes that will never become available to the market. The fall is nearing and WP7 should release lots of smartphones in order to compete against the new wave of Android phones and the iPhone 5 as the previous generation continues its poor selling run.
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