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According to various rumors, there will be two major Android smart phones from Taiwan based phone maker HTC during the coming holiday season.

First on the list is the less believable HTC Sabor. Considering the impressive specs on the handset, it is hard to believe that by the end of the year, HTC would be offering the market a smart phone with a 2GHz CPU and a touch scree display with 1080p HD resolution.

The specs are something out of a smart phone lover’s pipe dream and one that is unlikely to be technologically available in the given time frame –if it does exist, the battery life on the device would be cut extremely short as there are no power-efficient 2GHz CPUs available or in development.

Even Intel has announced that they would not be entering the smart phone industry until 2011, and they have made no claims that they would have a 2GHz CPU either.

The other smart phone is far more believable because of the proposed hardware specs and because it has already been leaked in images. The HTC Vision is a touch screen smart phone that comes with a slide out QWERTY keyboard, and a new high speed CPU clocked at 1.5 GHz. Many HTC Android fans have been hoping for a keyboard loaded device since the Motorola Milestone came out and HTC has yet to answer the call.

A physical keyboard is big deal because it allows users to type plenty of text faster than using a virtual onscreen keyboard. While the feature is not suited for all users, a vast majority of smart phone fans love keyboards –this partially explains why BlackBerry devices are still in demand.

According to rumors, the two handsets will most likely come packed with the new Android 3.0 Gingerbread OS.

Tech website Engadget has shown off a few teasers of a leaked web document which gave out three new names of HTC handsets: the Vision, LED and Glacier. It is impressive, but so far, the details are mostly lacking –with the exception of the Vision. It seems like a Dutch site has been able to scoop out the details on this upcoming HTC Android smart phone.

So what’s the deal? Rumors are saying that the HTC Vision is practically the HTC Desire with a slide out keyboard. It was already impressive to see the Wildfire –which is basically a Desire Mini smart phone. The Vision on the other hand, will be delivering the full Desire experience, but with the addition of the full, slide out, QWERTY keyboard.

For quite some time, people have been hoping for QWERTY keyboard on any of HTC’s impressive handsets. But since the initial rumors of the HTC Lancaster (which is basically the HTC Magic with a keyboard), nobody ever gave much hope that the Taiwanese manufacturer would be fulfilling any keyboard wishes. Now, it seems that there is a reason to hope once again as the Vision could potentially be the phone that everyone has been hoping for.

Specs wise, the phone is pretty predictable. As a clone of the Desire, the Vision is slated to have similar hardware. Expect to see the Snapdragon 1 GHz CPU, the 5 mega pixel snapper and of course, the 3.7 inch AMOLED capacitive touch screen display. For now, the Desire is still limited to the Android version 2.1 Éclair; though an update to the Flash capable 2.2 Froyo is expected sometime within the next few weeks.

Details on the two other Android devices; LED and Glacier are still unknown at the moment. Sadly, with HTC’s track record of scrapping planned devices (like some of the devices shown at the leaked HTC Roadmap last year) it is highly possible that we never see these devices ever sold on shelves.