Launch Day is Under an Hour Away (in the UK)

Catchy headline – watch out for my album. The UK launch is almost upon us. Tomorrow will see Windows Phone 7 officially available to the public here in the UK. The first member of public to have purchased one was in New Zealand as Engadget explain. For those who are early in line (the first 20 to be precise) at the Orange shop on Oxford Street, MS have lined up extra goodies. However, it seems that if you manage to get a demo in  shop, there may be extra stuff for you as well. (Presumably why stocks lasts ). Not long now…..

Windows Phone 7 Launch Event Tomorrow (Oct 11th)

October 11th sees two launch events being held by Microsoft. The first will be in London, UK and the second will be in New York. You can watch the live webcast here. (You may need to refresh the page when it opens)

Windows Phone 7 to Launch on October 11th (?)

Pocket-lint claim that Microsoft plan to officially launch the Windows Phone 7 platform on October 11th. New York will be the global stage for launch and actual devices running WP7 will be available later in the month.

Rumour of WP7 Launching Late August – Unlikely

Well, Twitter is abuzz with rumours that Windows Phone 7 will be launching as early as the end of August. This rumour seem to have started over at Neowin. It seems that Neowin has been tipped off that MS Australia will be holding a launch event but there has not been an official confirmation.

Confirmed Launch Partners for WP7

Pocket-lint managed to get a one-to-one briefing with Greg Sullivan, senior product manager, has said that consumers can expect handsets from Dell, Asus, LG, HTC, and Samsung at launch. Most of those were rumoured to be launch partners, but now they’re confirmed. The Samsung devices sent to developers this week will not be the same version at launch and were simply made for technical preview purposes. Although details of each models were not shown, it was confirmed that some models will have a keyboard and the OS will not be tied to any one operator in the UK or US. It seems that consumers will be getting plenty of choice when it comes to picking their flavour of WP7.

Thanks to Pocket-lint for the information.

-@keyboardP

WP7 Delayed until April 2011 for the Dutch?

MobileTechWorld reports that Windows Phone 7 support may be delayed till April 2011 in the Netherlands. As mentioned in WPC, WP7 will be launching in 5 languages, specifically English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. According to MS Netherlands, handsets may be delayed till April 2011 because of the lack of Dutch language support. However, there may be good news. MS are currently in talks with carriers to bring some handsets some handsets, presumably in English. Stay tuned.

More information can be found here.

-@keyboardP

Availability at Launch

In yesterday’s keynote, Andy Lees mentioned that the Windows Phone Marketplace was going to be available in 5 languages (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish) and in 17 countries. These countries are:

• Australia
• Austria
• Belgium
• Canada
• France
• Germany
• Hong Kong

WP7 UK Launch…..November?

Omio claim to have received a great deal of information regarding mobile phone release dates in the UK! Naturally, if you’re reading this blog you’re most likely interested in the device running Windows Phone 7. Well, it seems the HTC Gold will be the first WP7 phone to hit the UK and is due out in November (one month after the suspected US release of WP7 devices). Check out Omio’s site to find out about all the phones they managed to get information on.

-@keyboardP