No great surprise here – after all, HTC CEO Peter Chou already exclusively confirmed it to us back in October – but HTC have officially announced that the HTC HD2 Windows Phone will be headed to the US in early 2010.  According to a new press release today, the HD2 “will be available with a major carrier in the US in early 2010″; previous leaks have suggested T-Mobile will be the lucky network to offer the smartphone.

What makes the HD2 special is that it’s the first Windows Phone with a capacitive touchscreen supporting multitouch, along with the fact that it uses the 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.  That touchscreen is a full 4.3-inches, and is paired with a 5-megapixel camera, HTC Sense UI and high-speed UMTS/HSPA connectivity.

Right now HTC are keeping pricing and specific availability details close to their chest, but we expect we’ll hear more toward the end of the year.  For our unboxing and first-impressions of the HTC HD2, head over here; we’ve also got a hardware/software keyboard show-down with the Nokia N900 here.

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