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Verizon Wireless will start selling its first Windows Phone 7 next Thursday online and in stores beginning June 2.
The company said today it is offering the Trophy made by HTC for $150. That's $150 if customers sign up for a two-year service contract for both voice and data, and if customers remember to mail in a rebate form for $50. The lowest price combination of voice and data plans would cost $70 per month.
The phone is already available from AT&T Wireless, T-Mobile USA and Sprint in the U.S.
The HTC Trophy has a 3.8-inch touchscreen, 1-gigahertz processor, 16 GB of storage and a 5-megapixel camera.
"We?re adding Windows Phone 7 to our lineup so we?re giving customers more options," said Albert Aydin, a spokesman for Verizon.
Asked why it took Verizon months longer than the other carriers to start selling the phone, Aydin said, "We put our phones through a lot of testing and when we feel that the device is ready for our customers given the best customer experience, that?s when we will put out a phone for launch."
Microsoft and Verizon have an up-and-down history. Last year, the two companies launched the Kin smartphone, which Microsoft had hoped would sell well with socially networked tweens, but pulled the phone two months later. It sold poorly, observers said, partly because the Verizon service plan was too expensive for tweens.
Information in this article, originally published at 12 p.m. on May 19, 2011, was corrected at 4:52 p.m. the same day. A previous version of this story incorrectly stated the lowest price for a combination voice and data plan was $60.
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