The phones will find their way to over 60 cellphone operators in more than 30 countries this year. Microsoft tapped Dell, HTC, LG, and Samsung to deliver the Snapdragon-based handsets with a carrier list that includes AT&T, T-Mobile USA, Vodafone, TELUS, América Móvil, Deutsche Telekom AG, Movistar, O2, Orange, SFR, SingTel, and Telstra. And that's just for the first wave -- Microsoft has even more handsets coming in 2011 including the first for Sprint and Verizon in the US. Here's the lineup of 480 x 800 pixel (WVGA) phones 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 · 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 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 to differentiate itself from an already crowded smartphone market. Something we've already seen alluded to in that leaked AT&T ad
