Microsoft today announced the availability of a new line of Windows^® phones around the world that are available in a broad range of styles and prices. With a Windows phone, people can navigate their phone easily with the touch of a finger¹ and browse the Internet on a great mobile browser. People can also connect to two new services that allow them to back up and share data from their phone to the Web and buy a variety of useful applications from the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Microsoft expects partners to deliver more than 30 new phones in more than 20 countries by the end of 2009.

“We all want to connect quickly to the people and information that’s important to us from across our lives at work and at home,” said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. “A Windows phone lets people take their entire world of digital information, communications, applications and entertainment with them wherever they go.”

In North America:
•HTC Pure from AT&T
•HTC Imagio from Verizon Wireless
•Samsung Intrepid from Sprint, available Oct. 11, 2009
•HTC Tilt 2 from AT&T, available in the coming weeks

In Latin America:
•Samsung Omnia II available in the coming weeks from TIM Brasil

In Europe:
•MDA Vario V, MDA Compact V and HTC Touch2 and the Samsung Omnia II from Deutsche Telekom in select European markets
•HTC HD2 from Orange, available in the coming weeks in France
•HTC Touch2 from Orange, available in the coming weeks in France, Spain, Switzerland and Romania
•A software update for the HTC Touch Pro2 from Orange, available in the coming weeks in France, U.K. and Romania
•Samsung Omnia II from Orange, available in the coming weeks in Poland, Switzerland and Slovakia and from early December in France
•Samsung Omnia LITE from Orange, available in the coming weeks in France and Spain
•Samsung Omnia PRO B7320 from Orange, available in the coming weeks in France and the U.K.
•Toshiba TG01 W from Orange, available as an update to the TG01 in the coming weeks in France, the U.K., Switzerland and Romania
•LG GM750 and Samsung Omnia II from SFR in France
•TMN Bluebelt 2 and TMN Silverbelt, made by ZTE Corp., from TMN in Portugal
•Samsung Omnia II and Omnia LITE from TMN in Portugal
•HTC Touch Diamond2 from Vodafone in Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Australia, South Africa and Central Europe
•HTC Touch Pro2 from Vodafone in the U.K. and Switzerland
•LG GM750 from Vodafone in Germany, the U.K., Spain and the Netherlands

The following phones are available on the open market in Europe:
•Samsung Omnia II, Omnia LITE, Omnia PRO B7320, Omnia PRO B7330 and Omnia PRO B7610 available in October

In Asia:
•ZTE X60 from China Unicom
•HTC Touch Diamond2 from Telstra

The following phones are available on the open market in Asia:
•Acer beTouch E100, beTouch E101, beTouch E200 and Acer neoTouch
•Garmin-Asus nüvifone M20
•HTC Snap, HTC Touch Pro2, HTC Touch Diamond2 and HTC Touch2
•LG GM730 and LG GM550
•Samsung Omnia II and Samsung Omnia PRO B7320, Omnia PRO B7330

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