Windows Phone 7 devices to have three main designs: Microsoft Australia

www.WirelessFederation.com/news It has been revealed by the officials from Microsoft Australia that Windows Phone 7 using devices would have only three main form factors.

The details of the chassis program much rumored last year has also been confirmed by them.

Full-touch screen devices using a 1GHz processor or even faster is the characteristic of Chassis 1 and it is the first to reach the shipping target late in 2010. Chassis 2 devices will be similar to common Windows Mobile phones and will sport a touch screen and a sliding QWERTY keyboard.

Not very much detail has been given for Chassis 3 but it is said to involve handsets with fixed-in-place keyboards.