There are details to have come out of the three HTC phones that Windows Phone 8 will rotate. The high-end model will get a quadcore-soc from Qualcomm and a 4.7″screen. HTC had already confirmed this year with WP8 models to come.
According to The Verge, which says information received from a reliable source, is of the three models (a device with the code name Zenith the most high-end. In addition to the soc from Qualcomm with four cores, where it is expected to be the APQ8064 from the S4 series, the device has a 4.7″-slcd2 screen with a resolution of 1280×720 pixels, which is now prevalent, it has become top models. HTC’s Android flagship One X has the same screen properties, as well as a quadcore-soc, even though it’s going to Nvidia’s Tegra 3. Also has Zenith an 8-megapixel camera on board.
While the Zenith looks like the One X, HTC also with a WP8 equivalent of the One S. for A device codenamed Accord gets a similar tweekernige S4 soc as the One S and also has a screen diagonal of 4.3″. In contrast to the Android variant has the Accord on a 720p resolution.
Finally, HTC with the Rio, which is about a cheaper S4 processor. It comes to the MSM8227, which features two cores and a maximum clock speed of 1GHz. The screen has a diagonal of 4″, with a resolution of 800×480 pixels. It is likely that the Rio will be on the market as an entry-level.
Had Qualcomm already know that the first phones on the WP8 will come true, with a soc in the S4 Plus series. It includes, among other things, the MSM8260A of the Accord and the MSM8227 of the Rio, but the quadcore in the Zenith does not belong to this category.
HTC already made known that his WP8 devices still be released this year, although itself no details announced. According to The Verge, the Rio and Accord in October, while the Zenith a release in the fourth quarter of this year. Of the prices, nothing is yet known and are also missing images of the devices.
Microsoft announced on Wednesday during a private event its new mobile operating system Windows Phone 8. The operating system shares many features with Windows 8, including the kernel and the file system. This allows apps and games to be more easily exchanged between the desktop and the mobile operating system. Microsoft makes later, more is known about the gebruikersfeatures to the new operating system adds.