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HTC Radar 4G is T-Mobile's first 4G Windows Phone 7 phone

By | September 27, 2011, 11:04am PDT

Summary: T-Mobile may not be getting the iPhone, but it is getting its first Windows Phone 7 phone: the HTC Radar 4G.

With its acquisition of the iPhone seeming increasingly unlikely by the day, T-Mobile is focusing its efforts on smart phones of a non-Apple sort.

A day after revealing the HTC Amaze and announcing the availability of the Samsung Galaxy S II, T-Mobile has announced its first 4G-ready Windows Phone 7 device - the HTC Radar.

The Radar, of course, is not new. HTC announced the device earlier this month alongside the 4.7-inch Titan. But the Radar is new to T-Mobile, and, perhaps obviously, the first T-Mobile phone to run Windows Phone Mango.

Crafted from a single piece of aluminum, the Radar features a 3.8-inch screen, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, and a 5-megapixel camera with dedicated button. The device also comes equipped with a front-facing camera and 8GB of storage.

There’s no firm release date on the Radar, but HTC says that the phone will reach stores in time for the holidays. IPhone who?

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Ricardo Bilton writes for ZDNet's The ToyBox. His work has appeared in The Japan Times, The New York Observer, and The International Business Times, among other publications.

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Ricardo Bilton writes for ZDNet's The ToyBox. His work has appeared in The Japan Times, The New York Observer, and The International Business Times, among other publications. He lives in New York, and is a graduate of Amherst College.
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RE: HTC Radar 4G is T-Mobile's first 4G Windows Phone 7 phone
shover 18th Oct
@The Linux Geek Windows 7 is great, the only biggest obstacle with it is that companies are not creating a W7 version at launch, iPhone and Android are generally available first then maybe W7.
Its 'first' Windows Phone 7?? Maybe its first 4G Windows Phone 7...
@davidwnbrgr
it doesn't matter.
without android on it its crap.
@The Linux Geek
Exactly with you these talkbacks are a crap.
Mango totally crushes android in security, reliability, and usability. Of course living in your moms basement with no job you wouldnt know that.
The Linux Geek typically supplies observations of this level of intellectual value. He seems sexually attracted to an operating system that has been used to send thousands of American programming jobs to India, China, and Brazil.
@The Linux Geek
no linux dude..with Android it is CRAP!
@The Linux Geek hahahaha only crap is Android. Wp7 is best OS and most Stable. Not like Android which Lags allot and also a Big battery eater phone is all what All Android phones are Battery Eater.
@The Linux Geek Windows 7 is great, the only biggest obstacle with it is that companies are not creating a W7 version at launch, iPhone and Android are generally available first then maybe W7.
@davidwnbrgr

Do your homework ZDNET! This isn't the first WP7 device its their first 4G with WP7!
@rob.sharp@... Shows you how ZdNet hires wannabe users who think they know which they really do not know.
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I've been in love with Windows Phone 7 since I got mine back in March! Think this one might be perfect for my wife.

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