With Sprint’s HTC Arrive announcement last week, Microsoft is opening up the gates for a completely new segment of the market with CDMA support on Windows Phone 7 brought by the No-Do update.

Add Verizon to that segment with the HTC Trophy (sans 7 from its name) which will come late March, according to reports. The device was pictured in the wild wearing the Verizon logo at the top and we’re pretty sure the operator will have an announcement ready in the upcoming days.

The HTC Trophy features the internals you’d expect from a Wave 1 Windows Phone 7 smartphone: 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 3.8-inch WVGA SLCD screen, 576MB RAM, 8GB of internal storage, WiFi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, five-megapixel camera with auto-focus and flash with 720p HD video recording capability, and a 1300mAh battery. It will ship with Windows Phone 7 No-Do which already features Copy/Paste as well as several performance enhancements.

Expect it to be available around the date the Sprint HTC Arrive will hit the shelves — that is March 20 — give or take a couple of days — as long as it’s after the official No-Do update roll-out.

Source: Engadget