HTC Mazaa’s awarded in dev contest, winners promptly splay (and auction) them to world

What would you do if you’d won an unannounced smartphone that sported Windows Phone Mango ? Naturally, we are hoping you’d first send us the dirt, but what in the event you were a university student and knew the weekend was rapidly approaching? Undergrad winners of Microsoft’s WPAppitUp competition are facing this smartphone / cheap beer conundrum, as they’re now holding HTC Mazaas as prizes, yet many are selling them for cash instead.

If you would like to adopt an orphan, the phones include Qualcomm’s MSM8655 SoC — similar to the Thunderbolt and Droid Incredible 2 — which supports (but would possibly not feature) dual mode GSM / CDMA for world roaming. A 1GHz Scorpion CPU and the Adreno 205 GPU are inside the mix, and while the over-sized earpiece seems to denote that it’s an analogous 12-megapixel monster previously shown off by Eldar Murtazin, one of the vital contest winners, Heedeok Lee, informed us that the camera is truly of five megapixel resolution only. Frankly, it’s unclear whether the Mazaa is heading for retail shelves in any respect, but when you’re wanting an early taste of Mango, it is advisable to consider befriending a thirsty student developer.