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HTC’s mobile phones are sprouting like mushrooms after the rain.

January started with the released of what is probably the most anticipated mobile phone of them all, the  Nexus One -which ironically did not sell much, only 20,000 units were sold in the first week. The news was later followed up by the confirmation that HTC’s Bravo (the HTC branded Snapdragon Android phone) would be launching at the end of Q1 this year.

Now, not more than four weeks later, there is news about the HTC Espresso, Obsession, HD3, Supersonic and plenty of other HTC phones. The reports range from confirmed to the incredulous; the HTC Obsession images are a hoax, the WinMo phone’s images clearly show an Android UI.

Anyway, images of the HTC Bravo and the HTC Supersonic (which are not hoaxes) have been revealed recently. The two phones are expected to be announced formally at the Mobile World Congress in February that will be held in Barcelona, Spain.

The specs of the HTC Bravo have already been confirmed since the device was leaked last year along with the rest of the HTC 2010 roadmap. The Bravo will come with the 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, the latest Android operating system, a 3.7 inch capacitive AMOLED touch screen and a 5 mega pixel camera with 720p HD video recording. Specs wise, the Bravo and the Google Nexus One are pretty much on par with each other with the Bravo having only the HD video recording as an advantage. For those who are not too keen on getting the Google phone through the online store, the Bravo makes for an excellent alternative.

As for the HTC Supersonic, details on this first ever WiMax Android phone are still scarce, but the initial images show a pretty stylish mobile device that is certainly worth checking out.

Get the full details and the rest of the news from Softpedia.

There have been quite a few leaks for the HTC recently, as mobile phone enthusiasts would have noticed the leakage of their 2010 Roadmap spread like wildfire across the gadget communities on the internet. As more details emerge of the latest Android phone of the Taiwanese mobile giants, we have discovered that the HTC Bravo has actually surfaced to be the same device as the leaked handset named Passion.

The big news for the HTC phone fans first appeared in DigiTimes, which hold that the Bravo would be introduced as HTC Passion in the US markets in the first month of the year 2010. While the US users would be able to access the Android-run handset, it will not be any sooner than the end of April 2010 that the phone will reach the shelves of the European markets by the name of Bravo on T-mobile.

The HTC Bravo, or Passion, if you will, will be one of the more than 60% of HTC handset models to be released in the year 2010 that will be featuring the Android operating system. This according to the leaked HTC Roadmap will be the strategy for the next year, while the Windows Mobile phones will make up even lesser than 40% of the planned releases. Many pundits are watching the expected release of the HTC Bravo as a significant step from HTC to the gradual replacement of Windows Mobile phones with Android phones.

Just as we adjust our minds to the news of Bravo and Passion being one, it is rather ironical as analysts on the internet were speculating about the 3.5”size of Passion’s screen, and reporting that HTC may delay it for refining its software. The new leaks report the Bravo to be featuring a 3.7” AMOLED touch-screen which clearly varies from the earlier rumors. But despite the contradictions and the fact that Passion and Bravo are the same handsets or not, if the device appears in January 2010, it will not be long before you come to hear the truth about the latest HTC Android phone.