HTC Passion Coming to Verizon HTC Dragon Gets Renamed as Passion, Runs Android 2.0 on a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU

Looks like there's not a single day without something new in the
cellphone market. So here's soemthing interesting. Remember how a couple
of weeks ago we found trace (leaked in a firmware upgrade) of a new
handset dubbed the HTC Dragon? Well it looks like the Android-powered
smartphone will actually see light on Verizon, but will be codenamed HTC
Passion.

Probably a CDMA version of the Dragon, the new HTC Passion is an
ultra-fast handset that runs Android 2.0 Eclair on a super snappy
Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon processor. With its rather large 4.3-inch
capacitive touchscreen display (800 x 600 screen resolution) and the
hardware it packs, many would say that the HTC Passion is the
Android-counterpart of the HTC HD2 which runs WM6.5. Add to all these
the fact that the handset will come packed with Sense UI and Big Red got
us sold on that one, already!

Rumors have it that the new HTC Passion will be available on Verizon
before the year's end, which means there's another smartphone option on
Verizon, other than Motorola Droid or the new BlackBerry Storm2.

Can't wait to see Verizon's financial results next year with all these
new additions.