Meet HTC Arrive, Sprint’s first Windows Phone 7 device

When Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7 in 2010, one carrier who was left out of the launch party was Sprint simply because Microsoft’s Glance and Go experience offering OS didn’t support CDMA phone network.

But that is no longer the case as the US based telecom operator has announced HTC Arrive which some of you might remember as HTC 7 Pro. Not only is HTC Arrive Sprint’s first Windows Phone 7 device, HTC Arrive also happens to be the first Windows Phone 7 powered smartphone.

So does the QWERTY based device has an impressive hardware profile? Let’s get this question answered right here right now.

HTC Arrive becomes equipped with a

• Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon Processor
• 3.6-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen with multi-touch capability
• Full HTML Web browser with Bing Search and Maps for turn by turn directions, address mapping and even street level views via voice search or typing
• Windows Phone Marketplace offers a single view to showcase apps, games, music and premium Xbox LIVE games
• Corporate email (Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync®), personal (POP & IMAP) email and text messaging
• 5MP camera with flash, autofocus and digital zoom and 720p HD camcorder. The camera button will snap photos fast, even if the phone is locked.
• 16GB internal memory for storing pictures, videos and large files. With an additional 25GB of storage in the cloud at no additional charge using a Windows Live ID.
• Wi-Fi® (802.11 b/g/n)

The phone is available for pre-order today and will be available for the interested consumers starting from 20th March for $199.99 (2 year contract).