It’s an open tip at this point which HTC is almost positively operative on a single or some-more tablets for key in 2011 — and with heavyweights like Samsung, Motorola, as well as LG all playing a game (or about to play a game), unequivocally, how could they not? PocketNow has unearthed a really fresh heading filing with a US PTO — filed this past Sunday — for “HTC Scribe,” described as a “handheld wireless device, namely, a inscription mechanism.” Doesn’t get most more definitive than which. Of march, companies file for marks which they don’t in conclusion finish up using all a time — from their perspective, it’s better to shoot first as well as ask questions after — so it’s not the impact asperse, but when you think about it, Scribe could essentially be an awesome name for a little Honeycomb tablet. Only question is, are we starting to see this things next week during CES or in February at MWC?

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Remember a Windows Phone 7 ads, a ones that promised to “save us from the phones” by giving us some-more “glance and go” information? For the many partial, these phones haven’t delivered on which guarantee due to a relations dearth of apps taking value of Microsoft’s live tile notion. That changes a bit currently thanks to an refurbish to a HTC Hub app that ships with each Windows Phone 7 device made by HTC. Now, instead of a generic double-wide icon, the HTC Hub presents you with a stream weather condition as well as heat as well as the forecasted highs and lows. As such, you’ll never have to click through and be subjected to HTC’s overwrought animations which feel so out of place upon Microsoft’s some-more demure user interface. More gratefully.

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Looks similar to HTC and Samsung are taking a little aggressive steps to strengthen themselves from Android obvious lawsuit — in the past week both companies have entered into long-term obvious licensing agreements with Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures. (Mhyrvold was once Microsoft’s chief technology military officer, but he’s arguably some-more important for Intellectual Ventures.) Both HTC and Samsung right away have entrance to IV’s entire portfolio of “more than 30,000 IP assets” to wield against stream or potential legal opponents — similar to, contend, Apple or Oracle — and IV also plans to help them conduct their existing patent portfolios. It sounds to us like HTC and Samsung motionless which they indispensable some-more obvious flesh in sequence to tarry in a right away crazy-litigious smartphone market, as well as indeed, the PR announcing a HTC deal flatly says a smartphone maker is “working with IV to mitigate the patent risk.”

Of march, this is additionally a bit of a understanding with the demon — Intellectual Ventures might be a many barbarous obvious troll in history, and HTC as well as Samsung have radically decided the risks as well as cost of doing business with IV have been some-more favorable than a risks and cost of going to justice. Either way, we’ll see how this all shakes out — as well as we’ve got a feeling that a Apple / HTC lawsuit is about to get severely interesting.

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Well, it was only the matter of time — first the leaked press shots of this elusive HTC Spark (although presumably misidentified as a Mondrian behind afterwards — note the shinier earpiece in a leaked AT&T ad), as well as now a genuine thing is in a hands of a little lucky hardware tester. Fortunately for us, this man also happens to have the disobedient friend over during xda-developers — you’ll see in his photos which HTC Hub is alive as well as good upon this 8GB handset, though otherwise, there’s not much info entrance out of here. Regardless, feel free to head over to the source couple for some-more Windows Phone 7 eye sweets — you’ll need to register initial, yet, so we’ve grabbed the couple of shots next to get things starting.

[Thanks, Adam]HTC Spark leaked in the furious, shows off plenty of WP7 integrity

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It’s been decades, in internet years, since we caught breeze of the 4.3-inch, 1.3GHz HTC Mondrian around the leaked Windows Phone 7 ROM. The object rises, a object sets, life returned to normal, and nonetheless… here you are again. This ROM comes caring of a supposed Vodafone trickle as well as sports the name (so most as a filename hints) HTC Spark, a describe of that bears distinguished similarity to the Trophy you espied last week. Spark itself popped up as new as early August on the piece that cliamed a 3.7-inch 480 x 800 arrangement, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 512MB RAM, as well as a 5 megapixel camera. Can all these loose threads tie together to form one cohesive smartphone sweater? Not yet, though it’s removing there.

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It’s unclear whether a dude was speaking out of turn, though an HTC informal director obliged for North Africa as well as a Middle East has gone on record with gulfnews observant on no capricious conditions which the company “will be launching Windows Phone 7 handsets subsequent month.” Of march, that lines up nicely with only about all we’ve been hearing lately — not to discuss a torrent of HTC-specific leaks we’ve seen — and if true, it gives Microsoft a pretty generous buffer forward of the legal holiday 2010 guidance for the platform’s commercial recover. He goes upon to contend which HTC will be releasing “around five more models by end of a year,” though it’s not transparent how that mix will fall in between Android, Windows Phone 7, as well as presumably even Brew MP; the Desire HD as well as Desire Z seem like a good approach to tighten out a year on the Android side of things if you ask us, that leaves copiousness of room for awesome WinPho hardware. Sliding landscape loudspeakers, anybody?

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HTC Trophy isn’t an wholly new name ’round these here tools — in fact, we’ve seen it twice right away upon twodocuments which have propagated the internet before their respective time. But this is a initial claimed sighting of such the device, and according to Pocketnow, what we’re looking during is indeed a Trophy itself, packaged with Windows Phone 7. And that’s about all we can say here, as there’s no indication of price, recover date, or if this is essentially one of a most alternative WP7 devices HTC has in progress. At any rate, have no fright, the manufacturer’s all though on trial to move you countless options from which to select.

[Thanks to everybody who sent this in]

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1GHz Qualcomm QSD 8250, 576MB of RAM, 1,300mAh Li-Pol battery, 3.7-inch WVGA Super LCD screen, as well as an 8 megapixel camera with Xenon flash around the back. Those have been a handsome, despite somewhat predicted, specs of a purported HTC Mozart we have on show currently. It looks and reads really most like HTC has only transported a Nexus One/Desire recipe into the Windows Phone 7 universe, which isn’t exactly the misfortune thought in the universe. But you know what, every time you see a single of these WP7 devices in action, we’re taken aback by the celerity of their responsiveness (honestly, Microsoft didn’t have to compensate us to contend which… not additional, anyway), so do yourself the preference and declare this humbly-named device cranking by a Bluetooth pairing process after the mangle.

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Hey — what’s this? Well, from a looks of it, it’s a new, as-yet-unnamed HTC device. There is perilously little info accessible about a poser mobile, but it appears to boast an 8 megapixel camera with the flash plus the front-facing camera, a 4.3-inch screen, a headphone jack and a kickstand. It additionally appears that it’s starting to boast HTC’s own Sense UI. This falls in line with what we’ve listened about Verizon’s Android-heavy tumble launch this year, so you would not be astounded to see this device have an coming. Furthermore, you could go out on a limb as well as theory which it’s possible this is the Merge referred to in that lineup, which supposedly boasts a 1GHz processor. That’s all there is to the story right right away though we’re starting to stay up late tonight to be on a surveillance for serve report upon this one. One some-more photo next as well as strike up a source for a rest.

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Fleshing out HTC’s device codenames can be formidable even after they launch, seeing how the codenames rarely make the jump to sell branding — as well as the association positively isn’t creation it easy with its alleged first turn of Windows Phone 7 rigging, possibly. We’re flattering sure this device we’re looking during here — clearly labeled Mozart — is exactly a same as a Schubert you saw the few days back… physically, anyway, that leaves open the possibility which a radio (or a little alternative aspect of a internals) is dissimilar upon this one. After all, Microsoft is looking to launch WinPho 7 in a bunch of countries on the bunch of carriers with the garland of manufacturers on day a single, so the couple different tri-band 3G options (for the midrange inclination, anyway) would have great sense. Either that, or… you know, one of these codenames is only flat-out wrong.