It was only a few weeks ago that we learned HTC might be getting ready to come to the market with yet another high-end mobile phone powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz processor, the HTC Dragon. The company already announced officially the launch of its first Snapdragon-based device, the HTC HD2, but, while this device comes to the market with Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, the HTC Dragon is expected to run under Google's Android platform.

A series of photos that seem to feature said Android-based Dragon have emerged into the wild now, following previously leaked images with the handset's ROM, and showing us what to expect from the phone when it will come to the market. Interestingly enough, the new device does not feature the “Android chin” that HTC promised for all of its high-end mobile phones that would come to the market with Google's operating system.

The images that can be seen below (courtesy of theunlockr) show four buttons on the front of the HTC Dragon (Home, Menu, Back, and Search), the same buttons that can be found on the HTC Hero that landed in Europe. The buttons are placed right below the screen, and one can also see a large trackball right under them.

The specification list of the device is said to include a Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 CPU, 512MB of ROM... ()

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