HTC Touch Pro3 looking to be a smaller big hit this summer?

According to a poster on the xda-developers forum who claims to have had dinner with HTC's main distributor in Europe, the Touch Pro3 will get a  Q3 launch in Europe. Considering that the Windows Phone 7 OS will not be ready by then, it looks like HTC is going to be putting Windows Mobile 6.5 under the hood. Add to this the word from the distributor that the Touch Pro3 will be smaller and lighter with a 3 inch WQVGA resistive screen and it sounds like the Taiwanese manufacturer is taking one giant step backward. Still, even if the phone is released with Windows Mobile, a firmware upgrade could always be issued. And by the time the Touch Pro3 is rolled out in the States, Windows Phone 7 might be all ready to go. With the current trend toward larger screens, shrinking the display on the handset combined with the recent apathy toward Windows Mobile (except for the HD2, of course) might make this a hard sell.

source: xda-developersforum via TechieBuzz, WMPoweruser