Windows Phone 7: All You Need to Know & Official Microsoft WP7 Keynote

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Windows Phone 7 has been officially unveiled yesterday along with a plethora of handsets, which means we’ll all have an interesting winter when it comes to choosing our next powerful smartphone. Is it going to be an iPhone, an Android handset or a WP7 device? Well, we covered iOS and Android smartphones for a long time, and, starting yesterday, we have officially started to talk about official Windows Phone 7 devices.

In all fairness we looked at WP7 leaks from HTC, Samsung, Asus, LG and Dell all summer long, but here’s what went on yesterday in the Windows Phone 7 universe, and what we had to say about it yesterday:

• Windows Phone 7 Commercials Hit the Web; Still Suggest WP7 Phone Are Not Worthy of Attention [Microsoft Advertises Windows Phone 7 Handsets as Phones That Save Us From Our Phones]
• Copy & Paste On Windows Phone 7 In Early 2011 [Microsoft Confirms Copy-And-Paste Is Coming, Gives Promise Of Next Year]
• Samsung Omnia 7 Windows Phone 7 Smartphone Specs & Features Now Official [Samsung Unveils (Again) the Omnia 7 WP7 Handset For the Masses]
• HTC 7 Pro Windows Phone 7 Smartphone Officially Announced For Sprint [HTC 7 Pro Coming To Sprint, Set To Arrive With 3.6" Display & QWERTY Keyboard In The "First Half Of 2011"]
• HTC Windows Phone 7 Smartphone Device Roundup [HTC Unveiled Five Windows Phone 7 Devices, Here Are The Names & Where You Can Expect To Find Them]
• Windows Phone 7 Launch Event: Electronic Arts Games Coming To WP7 [Don't Worry - EA Games Coming To WP7, The Sims 3 Announced And Shown Off]
• Dell Venue Pro Windows Phone 7 Smartphone Announced For T-Mobile [Dell Venue To Feature 4.1" Gorilla Glass Display, Portrait Slider QWERTY & Arriving "In Time For The Holidays"]
• LG Optimus 7 & Optimus 7Q (Quantum) Windows Phone 7 Smartphones Announced [LG Unveils New Optimus 7 WP7 Series; Specs, Features & Pricing Available]
• T-Mobile Gets Official With the HTC HD7 Windows Phone 7 Smartphone, Coming Mid-November [T-Mobile HTC HD7 To Feature 4.3" Display, 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, Zune, T-Mobile TV & Netflix]
• Windows Phone 7 Now Official: Europe on October 21 & North America on November 7 [Microsoft Ready to Fight Apple & Google Again as Windows Phone 7 Becomes Finally Official]
• Samsung Omnia 7 Windows Phone 7 Handset Unveiled [Just Like LG, Samsung Lets Its Omnia 7 WP7 Handset Slip Ahead of Launch]
• LG Optimus 7 Windows Phone 7 Handset Officially Unveiled Then Pulled [Unaware of the Time Zone Difference LG Unveils Then Hides New Optimus WP7 Smartphone]
• Angry Birds Not Confirmed For Windows Phone 7 Just Yet [Despite Angry Birds Appearing In Windows Phone 7 Ad, Rovio Says They Aren't Yet Committed to Developing For The Platform]
• HTC HD7 Gets Pictured With T-Mobile Branding, $200 Price Tag [Rumors Suggest HTC HD7 Will Be Coming to T-Mobile With Windows Phone 7, $200 Price Tag]

Did that help you decide whether you’ll buy a Windows Phone 7 handset in the near future? If that’s not enough then you could always watch the whole Microsoft keynote on Windows Phone 7, as Redmond released the official video so the crowds can take a look at it:

What’s your stance on Windows Phone 7 handsets? Will you buy one soon?