Though it was teased late last year on the same day that HTC announced its very first Windows Phone 7 devices, in fact the company’s QWERTY-packing 7 Pro has taken its sweet time to make it to American airwaves; in the process, it’s gone through a name change and picked up the first big platform update from Microsoft. The phone we now know as the Arrive is finally available from Sprint, becoming the first Windows Phone 7 device available on a CDMA network. These days, it’s pretty unusual for an HTC handset or a handset on any American carrier, really, regardless of manufacturer to take this long to make it to subscribers’ hands after announcement, but in this case, Sprint’s hands were tied: Microsoft simply didn’t support CDMA initially, which explains why both AT&T and T-Mobile have been enjoying a selection of models from Samsung, LG, Dell, and HTC alike while Sprint and Verizon have been patiently twiddling their thumbs.
HTC Arrive is the American version of HTC 7 Pro which is a Windows Phone 7 side slider device with QWERTY keyboard that features a 3.6” WVGA touchscreen, 1GHz processor, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, and GPS.
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