Leaked HTC Elation with Windows Phone 8 looks more like a clever fake. Here's why.

Elation?

The HTC Bliss is most likely faked

Rum: 1

Our inbox has been inundated for the concluding five hours or so with 'tips' on the alleged HTC Elation. The device was reported on Ubuntu Life early on this morn and the prototype and details reportedly came from HTC'due south own site—in essence, a URL popped upward that revealed the device in all its glory.

In just under 72 hours, HTC will be showing off numerous new devices featuring Windows Phone 8, and then seeing things "leak" early is to be expected, not to mention the 'Elation' somewhat matches the specs of the declared 'Zenith' WP8 device that HTC has reportedly been working on.

Good to go, right? Non so fast…

In that location are some red flags that have acquired us to consider this not real...

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New HTC phones witll have this double-wide tile

Bluetooth 4.0 – Fifty-fifty the top of the line Lumia 920 only has Bluetooth 3.1 and Windows Phone 8 reportedly does not even so support the 4.0 profile
Quad-core CPU – While quad-cores are arable these days, they're not with the Qualcomm S4 processor. The S4 is capable of doing quad, just it has nevertheless to come out yet. It's actually chosen the Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 and is just being readied to run into the light of day. But LG is expected to be the first with it, not HTC. What'south more, that scrap is between one.5-1.7GHz, non 1.4GHz as in these specs
Front end facing camera specs – i.3MP? The mid-range Accordance/8X has a 2.1MP—seems odd they would downgrade the spec here, only anything is possible we suppose.
Design – While that One 10 rip off may satisfy y'all folks who yearn for a top of the line Windows Phone, it does not lucifer what the Accord and Rio wait like in terms of design, colors and flare.
The image is wrong – The Office Tile is off and HTC's new double-wide Sense tile is nowhere to be seen. Our bet: you won't see an HTC Windows Telephone without their double-broad Sense tile in the product shot
Beats Audio – the logo is missing from the dorsum. HTC'south new devices with Windows Telephone 8 take the Beats logo place on the lower back just in a higher place the speaker grill. There is no 'Windows Phone' stamp on the other ii unannounced devices.
Beats Audio II - No mention of the added amplifier for audio out? Tsk tsk...
Naming scheme – HTC 8X, HTC 8S and and then there'south the HTC Elation? Call us crazy only something is not right there for branding
(New) Non-standard USB port - Windows Phone viii devices have their port bottom, center. Not to the side.
(New) Nokia Bulldoze icon -We think not...

And then what about the alleged 'Zenith'? There are two approaches on this that we're taking:

It's not prepare yet/never was/was simply a rumor
HTC volition 'surprise' everyone Wednesday with it. But this in a higher place isn't it.

We only say that because as of right at present, we are not expecting that device. For that reason and all the ones higher up, we're calling fake on this story.

Lamentable, folks.