As expected, Sprint has officially announced its first Windows Phone handset, the HTC Arrive. A rebadged HTC 7 Pro, the Sprint Arrive has a 3.6-inch WVGA display, 1GHz Snapdragon processor and a slide-out hardware keyboard, and uses the carrier’s EVDO Rev. A 3G network.
There’s also WiFi b/g/n and Bluetooth, along with 16GB of onboard storage (and no memory card slot to augment that). The rear camera is a 5-megapixel autofocus unit with LED flash, and as always there’s integration with Xbox LIVE, Facebook and other services via Microsoft’s nifty side-scrolling Hubs.
We reviewed the GSM version of the HTC Arrive earlier this month, finding it to be perhaps our favorite Windows Phone 7 device to-date, combining a highly usable QWERTY keyboard with a solid, reassuring design. The HTC Arrive will land on Sprint come March 20, priced at $199.99 with a new, two-year agreement and mandatory data plan.