Specks releases its PixelSkin HD case for HTC’s new HD7 Windows Phone 7 smartphone. The PixelSkin HD is a flexible high-contrast skin case with a smooth HD pixel texture. It’s perfectly contoured, single-piece skinny fit makes quite a style statement with its matte-finish pixels and shiny glossy grid.

Speck has designed the PixelSkin HD for HD7 to allow for the HD7’s kickstand to pop out without obstruction. It comes in black and pink and is priced at $29.99 ($24.99 at Amazon).

Want to have a Windows Phone 7, but do not have enough money? Here is one way to grab it. Go to Amazon.com, which have discounted the prices of HTC Surround and LG Quantum, both under AT&T, for an astounding cost of US$0.01 each.

The HTC Surround features a slide-out speaker, while the LG Quantum has a sliding QWERTY keypad. If you want to seize this sweet deal, then you have to get into a two-year contract with AT&T. Quit second guessing because this promo only last until this weekend.

The upcoming, Windows Phone 7-powered HTC Spark has been spotted being photographed by a hardware tester. Too bad he has a friend who is linked to a popular tech forum xda-developers, so that friend took pictures of the phone (probably without the tester’s permission). Note, however, that this phone could either be the HTC Spark or the AT&T-branded HTC Mondrian.

Judging at the photos the HTC Hub is still there. Apart from that, the photos have only validated what has been said about the Windows Phone 7 OS.

Regardless of what you may think of the revolution of the old Microsoft Windows Mobile, almost all the world was safe, even quite sure of one thing that did not go well, the nickname “Windows 7 Phone Series”, certainly not short, but too long to exercise mentioned any time without crippled with abbreviations.

Fortunately, Microsoft has once again heard the message that future users have the mandate and made it clear, so that now the name changed officially in the most simple and short “Phone Windows 7.” The move rebranding has no technical relevance or strategic, as far as I can understand, it is really just a name change, that’s all.

Now we’ll have to update your friend who does not understand much, and to start calling the new Windows operating system only 7 Phone will put us a lifetime.

Now we can see for the first time together the first three prototypes confirmed Windows Phone Series 7 currently exist. From the left we have the new Samsung Slate which debuted today, the Asus device that has been the star of MWC presentation, and the slider LG.

The funny thing was learned from Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore: in order to concentrate on Windows Phone Series 7 the idea to better serve end users, the team created two dramas that target consumer named “Miles” and “Anna”, a married couple of 38 years “maximize life” that demand the most from their devices. Anna has just reduced his work as PR for the part-time, so he can take care of children! Miles snaps pictures and use Facebook to share with his parents in Europe!

Microsoft says it is trying to create a device that appeals to all those people who have a personal Gmail account and Exchange account, someone who needs a job done, but also wants to play 3D games, and I think that Miles and Anna are happy, the chances that a lot of other customer segments it is very high.

As a concept I find it very odd, but the ways of marketing are endless.