Vodafone will be adding the HTC 7 Trophy smartphone to its portfolio and it will be an exclusive to Vodafone. The HTC 7 Trophy is pictured above and comes with the live ‘Tile and Hub' user interface which updates in real time. This includes latest messages, social network updates and weather etc.

The HTC 7 Trophy formed part of a large Windows 7 announcement yesterday and we covered this here  In toal 5 new HTC handsets were announced. The HTC 7 Trophy works well with Zune and Xbox LIVE integration of Windows Phone 7. The Vodafone "My Web" portal provides HTC applications form the Marketplace.

The HTC 7 Trophy comes with a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, autofocus and 720p video capability. The HTC 7 Trophy comes with 8GB of on-board memory, Dolby Mobile and SRS WOW HD virtual sond music.  The 1GHz Snapdraon processor offers fast Xbox LIVE gaming.

Patrick Chomet, Director of Terminals for Vodafone said, "I'm very pleased that we have again partnered with HTC to bring Vodafone customers another exclusive, cutting-edge smartphone - the HTC 7 Trophy with its Windows Phone 7 platform is bringing something new to the already rich smartphone choice available to Vodafone customers to use on our fast, reliable networks around the world."
 
The HTC 7 Trophy will be available exclusively in the UK from October 2010. It will subsequently be made available in further markets around the world, and details will be announced in due course.