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HTC cranks out Android handsets like candy corn – and we love that. The only downside to this, however, is that each new leak has us drooling before the last leak even has time to become a real product.

Our salivary glands were just warming up for the HTC Incredible and the HTC Legend, but now we’ve got the HTC Scorpion (possibly codenamed “Olympian”) to dream about. According to the very-latest of leaks, this thing might pack a scorchingly fast 1.5 Ghz processor and the as-of-yet unreleased Android v2.2.

The emphasis in that last sentence, though, should be placed on “might”. We’re by no means 100% convinced this thing exists. Someone hooked the guys over at AndroidSpin up with what is reportedly a build file from this “Scorpion” device. The catch here, is that this leak is purely text – no images, no video, and thus, nothing tough to fake.

We’ve dumped the full text of the build file below, but here’s what caught our eye:

  • ro.product.board=cortex1.5ghz: Here’s the mention of the 1.5Ghz chip. Qualcomm just announced that they’d be making a 1.5Ghz Snapdragon chipset last month, and they’re not expected to hit devices for months – but if anyone had an engineering sample or two, it’d be HTC.
  • ro.product.model=HTC Olympian and ro.product.name=htc_scorpion: The names believed to be the internal codename and the tentative sales name.
  • wimax.interface = tiwlan0: WiMax!
  • ro.build.id=FRE65C: Google names their builds after sweets, alphabetically. The Nexus One has the latest build, “Eclair”, with a build ID of “ERE27″. The next build is codenamed “Froyo”.

Find any other gems hidden below? Let us know.

# begin build properties

# autogenerated by buildinfo.sh

ro.build.id=FRE65C

ro.build.display.id=htc_scorpion-userdebug 2.2 FRE65C eng.xxxxx.20100206 test-keys

ro.build.version.incremental=26741

ro.build.version.sdk=8

ro.build.version.codename=REL

ro.build.version.release=2.2

ro.build.date=Sat Feb 6 13:42:06 CST 2010

ro.build.date.utc=1264645720

ro.build.type=userdebug

ro.build.user=u40000

ro.build.host=builder00101

ro.build.tags=test-keys

ro.product.model=HTC Olympian

ro.product.brand=generic

ro.product.name=htc_scorpion

ro.product.device=scorpion

ro.product.board=cortex1.5ghz

ro.product.cpu.abi=armeabi-va8c

ro.product.cpu.abi2=armeabi

ro.product.manufacturer=HTC

ro.product.locale.language=mdpi

ro.product.locale.region=

ro.board.platform=qsd8672

# ro.build.product is obsolete; use ro.product.device

ro.build.product=scorpion

# Do not try to parse ro.build.description or .fingerprint

ro.build.description=1.47.3.2 CL2***** test-keys

ro.build.changelist=2*****

ro.build.modelid=DF4732***

ro.build.fingerprint=generic/htc_scorpion/scorpion/scorpion:2.2/FRE65C/26741:userdebug/test-keys

keyguard.no_require_sim=1

# end build properties

#

# system.prop for scorpion

#

ro.sf.lcd_density=240

#

ro.home.ui.defualt.=0

ro.home.ui.media.scorpion.=1

ro.home.ui.sense.=0

ro.home.ui.define.=0

#

#

rild.libpath=/system/lib/libhtc_ril.so

wimax.interface = tiwlan0

# Time between scans in seconds. Keep it high to minimize battery drain.

# This only affects the case in which there are remembered access points,

# but none are in range.

# begin build properties

# autogenerated by buildinfo.sh

ro.build.id=FRE65C

ro.build.display.id=htc_scorpion-userdebug 2.2 FRE65C eng.xxxxx.20100206 test-keys

ro.build.version.incremental=26741

ro.build.version.sdk=8

ro.build.version.codename=REL

ro.build.version.release=2.2

ro.build.date=Sat Feb 6 13:42:06 CST 2010

ro.build.date.utc=1264645720

ro.build.type=userdebug

ro.build.user=u40000

ro.build.host=builder00101

ro.build.tags=test-keys

ro.product.model=HTC Olympian

ro.product.brand=generic

ro.product.name=htc_scorpion

ro.product.device=scorpion

ro.product.board=cortex1.5ghz

ro.product.cpu.abi=armeabi-va8c

ro.product.cpu.abi2=armeabi

ro.product.manufacturer=HTC

ro.product.locale.language=mdpi

ro.product.locale.region=

ro.board.platform=qsd8672

# ro.build.product is obsolete; use ro.product.device

ro.build.product=scorpion

# Do not try to parse ro.build.description or .fingerprint

ro.build.description=1.47.3.2 CL2***** test-keys

ro.build.changelist=2*****

ro.build.modelid=DF4732***

ro.build.fingerprint=generic/htc_scorpion/scorpion/scorpion:2.2/FRE65C/26741:userdebug/test-keys

keyguard.no_require_sim=1

# end build properties

#

# system.prop for scorpion

#

ro.sf.lcd_density=240

#

ro.home.ui.defualt.=0

ro.home.ui.media.scorpion.=1

ro.home.ui.sense.=0

ro.home.ui.define.=0

#

#

rild.libpath=/system/lib/libhtc_ril.so

wimax.interface = tiwlan0

# Time between scans in seconds. Keep it high to minimize battery drain.

# This only affects the case in which there are remembered access points,

# but none are in range

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