HTC Omega and HTC Eternity may be new Windows Phone 7.5 handsets

May 18, 2011 | By Surur

We have just received an intriguing tip claiming two new Windows Phone 7.5 handsets are on the way.

According to our anonymous tipster the HTC Eternity will run Mango, feature a massive 4.7 inch AMOLED screen, wide-angle 8 megapixel camera with LED flash, DLNA and microHDMI out.

The HTC Omega on the other hand will be a lower end device, similar to the HTC Trophy, with a 3.8 inch SLCD screen, wide-angle 8 megapixel camera with LED flash and DLNA support.

Both handsets are said to feature 1.5 Ghz processors, similar to HTC’s tablets which have recently been leaked.

HTC does not currently own the trademarks to these names, and we can find no reference to the devices elsewhere. Until we can find such verification the info will remain a rumour, but a pretty sweet one at that.

Thanks to our anonymous tipster, and if anyone else has any pictures to share please use our contact form above.

About Surur

Site Admin and Windows Phone enthusiast, he has been using Windows Mobile devices since before they were called PocketPC’s. He is currently sporting a HTC 7 Trophy.

Tagged htc, htc eternity, htc omega, rumour, windows phone 7.5

Anonymous

Ridiculous. 4.7 inches? I don’t want a tablet-phone.

Anonymous

On the other hand I for one would like it. makes reading easier, AMOLED screen YES! anything, anything that pushes tech if it’s on WP7.5 i’m all for it. it will attract people into buying and using this product.

Lucienium

Ditto, my eyes lit up when I read “4.7 inch AMOLED screen”. That thing is sold!

Ram

+1
Glenn

Me too. Especially if it is thin, as well.

Hussein

So HTC’s listens to KennyB123′s Desires when they make every cellphone.

Anonymous

I’ll eat my hat if this phone is released with its rumored specifications. If they make a 4.3 inch version with the same specs, I’ll drop a grand to get it.

http://profiles.google.com/jdax3041 James Matthews

I do. I want it very much. Put a FFC on this and it is sold.
Frogboy

As long as it isn’t a pentile matrix, it’s mine.

http://twitter.com/SirCatalyst Justin Vincible

Again, why can we not get any landscape keyboard phones?! Only 2 available commercially and only 1 with US 3G bands. Wtf?

Anonymous

The software keyboard is pretty darn good. I thought I would never have another phone without a physical keyboard, but I’ve been 100% happy with my Focus.

Tom

Ditto.

I got an LG Quantum specifically for the physical keyboard. I ended up using it only for the first week. Now, it’s just an extra 1.5 ounces that I’m lugging around.

My next Windows phone is probably not going to have a hardware keyboard.

DA

agree with mweinand… I have the HTC Arrive (7pro) and i hardly ever use the landscape keyboard. Their is this cool free app called Text Text Revolution and i can type faster on the Soft Keyboard than on the Hard Keyboard. Around 50 wmp.

Its just a matter of getting used to it… although When i’m driving or have only one hand, typing with the soft keyboard is hellish

Anonymous

What I miss for texting is my old pre-smartphone cell. I was a master of typing on that thing with one hand, didn’t even have to look down because the keypad had a notch on five so you could center. Add in T2 text completion and it was easy peasy. Now I don’t even try to text while driving.

Jonnyjon91

Front facing camera?
Anonymous

all i want is the latest and gratest CPU + GPU… that all.
1.5GHZ sounds crazy good!
Anonymous

Where’s HTC going to get AMOLED screen from?

Hussein

HTC Legend has Amoled, think Desire to.

Hussein

Hope they get front camera, as Microsoft is implementing Skype to Mango im sure.
Hussein

Hope they get front camera, as Microsoft is implementing Skype to Mango im sure.

Anonymous

Since Lync does support video conferencing, I suspect that is one of the new features that will be announced on the 24th. I agree though that it is a definite requirement for parity with the other platforms. The next two years will be very interesting.

http://twitter.com/dustbeta Dustin Schultz

Since when is anything with a >4″ screen low end? Geez, I don’t to carry around a 4.7″ phone on my belt. Omega sounds better, but seeing this is HTC, they will find some way to screw this up.

Anonymous

Not low end, _lower_ end. And yes, 4,7″ isn’t that big, just look at the HD2. They managed to squeeze a giant screen into a pocketable form factor pretty well.
Anonymous

Not low end, _lower_ end. And yes, 4,7″ isn’t that big, just look at the HD2. They managed to squeeze a giant screen into a pocketable form factor pretty well.

http://www.facebook.com/deejay.evolution Eiviltas Evan Radavicius

pixelation!!!!…4.7 inches…….

http://twitter.com/TheBigM72 Samil Shah

Exactly! Continuing with the 800×480 at 4.7″ would mean a really low ppi! I think 4.3″ is the maximum for phones, are larger and they’re not pocketable. I currently have a 4.3″ HD7. If I had to choose between a slightly smaller screen (say 4.0″) with higher resolution or larger screen at lower res, pretty obvious I’d choose the former.

Even now, I’m starting to feel the lower res on HD7 once I’ve looked at friends’ iPhone 4s.

The IPS LCD with high pixel density is one good thing I like on the iPhone.

http://www.facebook.com/gmanolas George Manolas

I have the Samsung Focus but since it has a AMOLED screen it still looks better than my friends iPhone 4 even though I can see the pixels on the focus.
Frogboy

I hope you have a 15″ 1080p television. I won’t spoil it for you but even that has poor pixel density. I feared the same thing when I got my Dell Streak. The “low” pixel density hasn’t been a problem in practical use, though.

Dhaoracle

This sounds all good and well but give me a pone with 2 Ghz, front facing camera (that works with 4G as well as WiFi), an even more powerful GPU than the one in the Galaxy S phone, NFC, Super AMOLED 2x (just a theory to a much clearer, denser pixeled, XGA+ (1152X854), brighter AMOLED screen that Samsung are currently working on now), incredible GPS chip, two separate chips (one for the phone and the other for the OS). Also solid but light.

Give me all of this in a phone and i would be sold to buy it as soon as it comes out as would 20 million other people who want the best.

Dhaoracle

I correct myself i would want a WXGA (1280X720) resolution screen on a 4.8″ screen.

Anonymous

You forgot to add the 8800mAh slim battery or the optional 14400mAh extended battery.

http://www.facebook.com/gmanolas George Manolas

That was a good one. Two thumbs up

José Villaró

Do you want it to sprinkle fairy dust and cure cancer too?
God, the things one has to read in these forums…
http://www.andrew-stockdale.co.uk Andrew Stockdale

…wtf? Did you just start dragging stupid numbers out your ass and then double them?

Dhaoracle

Yea for 20 million but thr rest have either been done already (two chips in a phone: Samsung Omnia II), 2 Ghz and 4G (done already)

Could be done I’m sure with WXGA+ would look wonderful with the next Generation AMOLED screens after Super AMOLED Plus..

Anonymous

In the past I would have thought 4.7 was too big for a phone, but after owning an HD7 i probably wouldn’t mind. The HD7 does not feel big to me anymore.
http://chmun77.myopenid.com/ Koka

Size does not matters. We are not playing with a Godzilla. Most important factors are the quality of the display, sound, design and built of the phone. 4.7in? Are we suppose to use 2 hands when answering calls?
Anonymous

DNLA needs to be baked into Windows Phone stat!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ariel-L-Diaz/100001691739732 Ariel L. Diaz

the bigger the screen the better for texting, gaming and web browser
efjay

Its an HTC, meaning poor screen, camera and probably 8GB of storage. Plus it will only be a carrier phone which means delays to updates and crippled features. Good luck to those who buy it, but HTC is a brand I will avoid at all costs.

Anonymous

Man efjay. HTC must has really ticked you off. You just won’t let it go. On my 8th HTC device in a row and still batting 1000 with regards to hardware. No defects, no returns and no (hardware) complaints over 8 years. Now their crappy software, that’s a different story. Might check out what Nokia has in store but a pretty good chance my next phone will be an HTC. Definitely not something with a 4.7″ screen though.
Anonymous

Man efjay. HTC must has really ticked you off. You just won’t let it go. On my 8th HTC device in a row and still batting 1000 with regards to hardware. No defects, no returns and no (hardware) complaints over 8 years. Now their crappy software, that’s a different story. Might check out what Nokia has in store but a pretty good chance my next phone will be an HTC. Definitely not something with a 4.7″ screen though.
Anonymous

You are joking right? Have you seen the first batch of HTC windows phones? The HD7 has 16 GB storage. And the screen problem won’t be there for the new phone (you *did* read the part about the AMOLED screen, didn’t you?) 8MP wide-angle camera. Something tells me you read HTC and skipped the rest of the article. In fact, despite saying you’ll avoid HTC at all costs, here you are commenting in an HTC thread. Go figure.

R.y

1.5 Ghz processors !!!!! heh

mango add this 2 processors . 1 and 800 Ghz
MSM7630
MSM8255

http://www.andrew-stockdale.co.uk Andrew Stockdale

Actually, if you care to read the slides more carefully, they state that supported chips are now the MSM7x30, and the MSM8x55. That includes the 2-series of the SOC (the GSM part), the 6-series (the GSM & CDMA part), and the T variants of both (1.4GHz clockspeeds vs 1GHz on the non-T variants).

So Mango supports processors ranging from 800MHz to 1.4GHz.
http://www.facebook.com/gmanolas George Manolas

Also they will be making cheaper phones with 800mhz Processors which will run just as quick as Windows phones currently can because Mango uses less resources

Guesto

Htc finally decided to be involved more in the Windows Phone adventure? It would be cool.

I turned my back to HTC and now prefere Samsung, but if the rumoured specifications are true (4.7 inch AMOLED screen, wide-angle 8 megapixel camera with LED flash, DLNA and microHDMI out) I am buying this HTC immediately.

Unfortunately I bet it’s only a rumour. Especially I don’t think HTC can have any AMOLED screen. I have the feeling (correct me if I’m wrong) that Samsung has a kind of exclusivity.

http://www.facebook.com/gmanolas George Manolas

HTC used to put AMOLED screens if I can recall correctly but they were in short supply so they switched to LCD

Brandon

I’d like to think that one of these would be released on @VerizonWireless, but I know better. #bastards.
Brandon

I’d like to think that one of these would be released on @VerizonWireless, but I know better. #bastards.
Joe

In the real wold–be honest–how many people actually use/need/ the front facing camera? Come on people most smartphones features aren’t used by the MAJORITY of buyers.
paris

if it do come out then that wazzup but i kinda have my doubts about HTC Eternity. cause they are still letting the devices like the thunderbolt , the sensation, and the evo 3d make there mark and if it do come out it might not come to the us. now the htc omega on the other hand it mostly likely to be true .