Windows Phone 7 Now Official: Europe on October 21 & North America on November 7

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Today it’s D-Day for Windows Phone 7, or better said W-Day, since Microsoft is going to make us remember October 11, 2010, as the day Windows Phone 7 finally became official. As we speak, Microsoft is on stage in New York showing everyone Windows Phone 7 and the first hot WP7 smartphones.

Windows Phone 7 will be available in “Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and Australia” in time for the holiday season. Europeans will get the first Windows Phone 7 handsets on October 21 while North Americans will get them a few weeks later, on November 7. These days are pretty much in line with what we’ve heard before so, really, no surprise there.

Who’s going to make the first WP7 handsets? Dell, HTC, LG and Samsung are named by the official press release.

What carrier will launch the first WP7 handset? No less than 60 mobile operators in 30 countries will have WP7 phones on display, and here are some of them “América Móvil, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom AG, Movistar, O2, Orange, SFR, SingTel, Telstra, TELUS, T-Mobile USA and Vodafone.”

And while we’re at it, we also have a list of smartphones already mentioned by Microsoft’s press release, handsets probably sitting on that table in front of Steve Ballmer right now, so here’s it is, by region:

In North America:
AT&T
• HTC Surround, United States
• Samsung Focus, United States
• LG Quantum, United States
T-Mobile USA
• HTC HD7, United States
• Dell Venue Pro, United States
TELUS
• HTC 7 Surround, Canada
• LG Optimus 7, Canada
América Móvil
• LG Optimus 7, Mexico
In Europe:
O2
• HTC HD7, United Kingdom, Germany
Orange
• HTC 7 Mozart, including France, United Kingdom
• Samsung Omnia 7, including France, United Kingdom
SFR
• HTC 7 Trophy, France
• Samsung Omnia 7, France
Movistar
• LG Optimus 7, Spain
• HTC HD7, Spain
• Samsung Omnia 7, Spain
Deutsche Telekom AG
• HTC 7 Mozart, Germany
• Samsung Omnia 7, Germany
Vodafone
• HTC 7 Trophy, including Germany, Spain, United Kingdom
• LG Optimus 7, including Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom
In Asia Pacific:
SingTel
• HTC HD 7, Singapore
• LG Optimus 7, Singapore
Telstra
• HTC 7 Mozart, Australia
• LG Optimus 7Q, Australia
Vodafone
• HTC 7 Trophy, Australia

We’ll be back with more details about the handsets above, so stay tuned for more. Anyone interested in Windows Phone 7 yet?