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Microsoft took the lid off Windows Phone 7 at a press conference yesterday to show off the new phone OS and its tag line, "Always delightful, wonderfully mine." The new operating system is a huge departure from what people typically think of when they think about a Windows cell phone. It offers tons of customization, an intuitive onscreen QWERTY keyboard that auto corrects words or lets you revert to the original word typed, integration with Xbox Live (including the ability to edit and create avatars), voice search using Bing, and an overall more fluid user experience. There will also be an update coming in early 2011 that will allow you to cut and paste.

AT&T, the company that launched the first Windows Mobile phone back in 2003, announced that on November 8th it would be offering the Samsung Focus Windows Phone 7. A few weeks later, two more models the LG Quantum and HTC Surround (complete with a kickstand and surround sound speakers) will be available. The three cell phones will have a 1GHz processor and tons of on-board storage (Quantum and Surround will have 16GB of on board memory, while the Focus will have 8GBs of onboard memory). However, Microsoft talked a lot about the "cloud" so you'll have access to tons of content (pictures, music, and movies) that doesn't need to reside on the phone.

Microsoft announced a total of 9 cell phones that would be running Windows Phone 7: Dell Venue Pro with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, HTC HD7 with a spacious 4.3-inch display and a kickstand, HTC Mozart with an 8-megapixel camera and HD video record capability, HTC 7 Trophy with a spacious 3.8-inch screen for playing Xbox games, LG Optimus 7, and the Samsung Omnia 7 with 4-inch SUPER AMOLED screen. To get a peak at the new phones, watch the video below.

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