So, here’s what we know: a Windows Phone from HTC just earned its FCC wings, it’s production (meaning non-prototype) hardware… and it’s a CDMA device. That alone is notable considering that Microsoft has said that CDMA won’t be available until the first half of next year , and here we are in October with an FCC-approved, production-ready device waiting in the wings already. We’re not the type to be floating conspiracy theories, but could it be that we’re dealing with an artificial delay here, or is the CDMA software stack really that far away from being solid? Anyhow, if we had to guess, this is probably the tilt-sliding 7 Pro , seeing how that’s the only CDMA Windows Phone 7 device to bow so far, equipped with 802.11b / g / n alongside Bluetooth + EDR. Sprint, let’s make this happen. HTC 7 Pro squares away its FCC approval? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink