In the midst of a hail of Apple iPhone 4 press it appears more 'leaked' spy shots are making the rounds, this time it's the HTC Vision in the spotlight again. Remember before when we posted about the HTC Vision with it's QWERTY slide out keyboard? Well it's looking even more real and most likely heading to Europe very soon.
As you can see from the photo, it's brandishing the T-Mobile logo, so no prizes for guessing who'll most likely be the main handset carrier. Engadget were tipped off that the phone is likely headed to Europe and probably not the US, but that may all depend on how well it is received, bearing in mind there are no other serious Android based QWERTY keyboard smartphones on the market.
If it gets picked up by the business market it may well get shipped to the US after all. Not everyone likes software keyboard, we have days where we miss ours (but not for long mind you). This could appeal to the BlackBerry crowd who can't bring themselves to leave the hardware keyboard way of life, yet yern for the Android OS and everything it has to offer.
We'll have to wait and see, but we imagine we won't have long to wait based on how quickly these spy shots turn into real handsets and hit the shelves, and maybe with a different name, as the same source of the leak also mentioned it may well be called the G1 Blaze. An homage to the first Android smartphone perhaps? We kind of prefer the HTC Vision moniker though to be fair.
Source: Engadget