Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Arrives

It's finally here! Head on over to Microsoft's new Windows Phone site for all the details directly from M$.

Looks like there's going to be 10 handsets for 30 countries on October 21 with the United States release slated for November 8^th. The phones are going to be on over 60 cellphone operators with manufacturers Dell, HTC, LF, and Samsung delivering various units. Microsoft has handsets coming in 2011 including the first for Sprint and Verizon.

Here's the lineup announced today:

•             HTC 7 Surround -- The 3.8-inch T8788 with slideout speaker for AT&T and Telus
•             HTC HD7 -- Schubert comes of age as a 4.3-inch HD2 cousin for T-Mobile and beyond
•             HTC 7 Trophy -- the 3.8-inch Spark headed to international carriers
•             HTC 7 Mozart -- another heavily leaked int'l player with 3.7-inch display
•             Dell Venue Pro -- 4.1-inch portrait QWERTY slider for T-Mobile we broke as Lightning
•             Samsung Focus -- AT&T's 4-inch Super AMOLED slate we broke as Cetus
•             Samsung Omnia 7 -- the i8700 is a 4-inch Super AMOLED jobbie for Europe
•             LG Optimus 7/7Q -- the E900 is the official 3.8-inch global workhorse
•             LG Quantum -- AT&T's 3.5-inch landscape slider first seen as the C900
•             HTC 7 Pro -- a 3.6-inch QWERTY slider for Sprint (2011)

"Glance and Go" is the slogan Microsoft is using for their interface, and looking at the page-like interface with the "tiles" I definitely see where they're going with that. There is a good amount of information available at immediate glance without having to actually open an application like email or Facebook. They announced games and apps today and as time goes on I'm sure this will be a viable mobile platform. Microsoft is pushing cloud computing with this device and the integration with Office alone should make it a contender in the corporate world.

Here's a look at some of the handsets:

HTC Trophy:

LG Optimus:

AT&T's Lineup: