Better bring an umbrella in the event you’re going out, because the Windows Phone 7 hardware leaks are really beginning to rain down. We’ve to this point peeked pre-release handsets from ASUS, HTC (twice), and LG, and now Samsung is pitching in with what appears like a device fated to bop on retail shelves. Details are, as usual, scarce on the ground, but the angular aesthetics suggest it isn’t the AT&T-bound Cetus that recently graced the FCC. Taken along with the physical separation of the Windows-branded Start key, however, they do rather resemble what we’ve seen on ASUS’ hardware, which can suggest that there is some undercurrent of cohesive body design that Microsoft is pushing out to its hardware partners. Or even we’re just grasping at straws to kill the time until this OS finally launches. Yet another pic after the break.


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