Windows Phone 7 Smartphones Unveiled (PHOTOS): See The Phones Running Microsoft's New OS

Microsoft, together with its partners, took the wraps off of several forthcoming smartphones that will be running Microsoft's new highly-anticipated operating system, Windows Phone 7.

Microsoft's tagline for Windows Phone 7 is "Always delightful and wonderfully mine." Windows Phone is "a different kind of phone," Microsoft CEO Ballmer said during a Windows Phone 7 press conference. "Get in, out, and back to life."

Microsoft has a lot riding on the new mobile platform: Ballmer, who saw his bonus docked over the firm's recent mobile missteps, has admitted that the company missed a cycle and is now playing catch-up in the mobile arena.

Microsoft said in a press release, "The goal for Microsoft’s latest smartphone is an ambitious one: to deliver a phone that truly integrates the things people really want to do, puts those things right in front of them, and either lets them get finished quickly or immerses them in the experience they were seeking."

The lineup of smartphones running Windows Phone 7 will be available in the U.S., as well as Europe and Asia, in "the holiday 2010 timeframe," according to Microsoft. Ballmer said during a press conference that Windows Phone 7 phones would be available in the U.S. by November 8.

In the U.S., AT&T will be offerring 3 phones running Windows Phone 7: the HTC Surround, Samsung Focus, and LG Quantum. T-Mobile will be offerring the HTC HD7 and Dell Venue Pro to its customers in the United States.

See photos of the phones and of Windows Phone 7 in the slideshow below, then check out early reviews of the operating system.

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[Candece Redding]

03:58 PM on 10/16/2010

Who is actually going to get rid of their iPhone or Android phone in favor of a Windows Mobile 7 phone? It seems to me that the Windows Mobile 7 phone simply copys existing features that are already available on other smart phones with little/no additional inovation. I'm interested to hear who has switched to a Windows Mobile 7 and why you made the decision. Join the existig conversation on this topic here:
http://www.twocentsnetwork.com/question/2164/windows-mobile-7-who-iss-getting-one

[Bucket-Of-Love]

04:53 AM on 10/14/2010

Graphically, it looks like Windows. Man, they really suck at design.

[laughingcynic]

09:17 AM on 10/13/2010

anything microsoft does sucks

[romulus5777]

02:16 AM on 10/13/2010

Where have you been MS? Back when the WM 'Smartphone' exorcised me from horrific Palm PDA/phone (Tungsten W) turned brick (when AT&T merger left this new phone completely unusable, unsupported, & DEAD while leaving it's users flapping in the wind). My first WM phone had me ecstatically showing off the capabilities of my WM phone. I recently found the plan (with service {as opposed to AT&Ts pathetic coverage in my area}) that allowed me to finally leave AT&T, but couldn't find a phone with WM... Once again, I've been relagated to "inferiordom" because of the lack of competition or even 'choice' in the market. Microsoft ultamately missed the boat! They could have cornered the market offering a technological solution to "lack luster", inferior, criminally complicit, and pathetic (i.e. "road blocks" & data discrimination) from the American carriers (read AT&T). Those who've known the underused capabilities of these "smartphones" have been STARVING for far too long!

[llibsetag]

09:41 PM on 10/12/2010

The new MSphone...The Vista of smartphones!

[llibsetag]

09:38 PM on 10/12/2010

So let's see...The smartphone design is based on Apple's iPhone + Blackberry Phone + Android Phone & the GUI is based on the failed MS Zune + MS Kin.

NEW! It's the not-so-smart smartphone from Microsoft! The Zukin' Vista7 Phone! Yeh, THAT'S the ticket! EPIC FAIL!

Microsoft : Always LAST to the party & wind up being a big party pooper to everyone! Then when they crash the party, they spend BILLIONS of dollars lying to the world about how the party was their idea in the first place. Oh and by the way, the word "PARTY" is now a trademark of Microsoft.

LOSERS!

[Whoozthaboss]

05:13 PM on 10/12/2010

Ahem..... (clears throat).... BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[CT Independent]

02:27 PM on 10/12/2010

Microsoft phone 7 doesnt have to be the iphone killer; Android is doing a pretty good job of that as is.

[philp71]

06:06 PM on 10/12/2010

right it only had to sell its phone on every carrier before it even began to get close to the success of the iphone

[Bucket-Of-Love]

04:55 AM on 10/14/2010

Walled garden, dude.

[twhiting9275]

08:06 AM on 10/21/2010

Android is not a 'phone', it is an OS. Of course, Google's OS is going to kill the iPhone. This is called common sense here. When you have massive multiple markets, you're going to dominate over just one. THIS is a no-brainer.
Multiple markets - check
Multiple phones - check

Now, if you limited the competition to one phone on one market, there's no WAY that Google could compete with Apple. Of course, Apple did their own limiting, but it's inappropriate to claim that 'Android' is better than iPhone based strictly on sales. There's no comparison there.

[LittleMittens]

02:05 PM on 10/12/2010

Unfortunately Microsoft is actually serious about competing, but without offering anything new to the game, without even attempting to raise the bar. Not that microsoft was EVER visionary or artistically creative. But their feeble entry to the smart phones only proves, embarrassingly so, that they pour money into research and development to simply match (poorly) what's already on the market...how many weeks until this entry gets pulled...

[uomt]

01:07 PM on 10/12/2010

I'm pretty sure the I-Phone is here to stay.

It will be interesting to see how much market share Microsoft can grab from the other players. They do have some interesting tie ins with X-box and such.

[Chubbster]

12:06 PM on 10/12/2010

Anytime, every time Microsoft sticks a toe in the hardware battle water it gets the whole foot bitten off.

[DefineReality]

03:46 PM on 10/12/2010

You'd be correct, except for the XBOX. That is the single hardware area they have succeeded in and with XBOX Live to back it up, it's king of the consoles and consule multiplayer gaming.

[philp71]

06:08 PM on 10/12/2010

is that why they are coping nintendo which outsold xbox a billion to one

[philp71]

06:08 PM on 10/12/2010

whoops im on a pc i meant to say copying

[Louisknyc]

10:31 AM on 10/12/2010

Nice fonts.

LOL.

[jabreal00]

08:53 AM on 10/12/2010

But, but I thought the Zune was suppose to kill the iPod/iTouch? I thought the Kin was suppose to kill the iPhone last year? The iPhone should be dead already, right?

[Adam Story]

04:27 AM on 10/12/2010

It looks better than RIM products so I'll probably replace my work phone with it, but overall, I think its too little too late.

[greeneyes51654m]

03:12 AM on 10/12/2010

Good luck Windows 7, you're going to need it.

[philp71]

06:09 PM on 10/12/2010

luck we don't need luck we are microsoft and we will make sure it comes with a virus and blue screen