We’re still catching our breath from the whirlwind of news that swept across the smartphone plains yesterday in the form of Windows Phone 7 launch details, and we imagine that some of you are a little overwhelmed as well. Therefore we thought we’d recap all of our coverage for you in this handy guide, along with charts detailing specs of all the initial devices plus distribution plans broken down by country and carrier. We hope that you enjoyed our WP7 articles as much as we enjoyed bringing them to you, and we’d like to thank everyone for tuning in to Pocketnow for such an exciting event.

Pre-Launch Leaks

HTC Mozart and LG Windows Phone 7 Coming 10/21 on Telstra

LG Optimus7 Becomes Official Before Windows Phone 7 Launch

Samsung Omnia 7 Windows Phone 7 Also Made Official

AT&T Tips Windows Phone 7 Lineup: HTC Surround, LG Quantum, Samsung Focus

Press Conference News

Nine Windows Phone 7 Devices Launching in US This Year

AT&T Debuts U-Verse Mobile Streaming For Windows Phone 7

EA Games To Develop Titles for Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7 Gets Copy-Paste Functionality in Early 2011

Microsoft Screens First Official Windows Phone 7 Ads

The Phones

HTC 7 Pro Makes The Scene With A Slide Out QWERTY

HTC Announces Five Device Windows Phone 7 Line-up

Dell Lightning Gets Official As The Venue Pro For T-Mobile

Samsung Focus Hitting AT&T November 8th For $200

HTC 7 Surround Goes to AT&T Late November for $200

LG Quantum QWERTY Slider Arrives AT&T In November for $200

HTC HD7 Brings Windows Phone 7 to T-Mobile Mid-November

HTC 7 Mozart, 7 Trophy Headed to Europe, Australia

Hands-On

Samsung Focus Hands-On (Video)

LG Quantum Hands-On (Video)

HTC Surround Hands-On (Video)

HTC HD7 Hands-On (Video)

Dell Venue Pro Hands-On (Video)

The Aftermath

LG Optimus 7 and LG Quantum Appear in YouTube Presentation

HTC’s Windows Phone 7 Codenames Deciphered?

Windows Phone 7 DOES Support Removable Storage: Proof

Microsoft, Manufacturers and Operators: WP7 Success

Editorial: Thoughts on Windows Phone 7 Post Launch

See the Windows Phone 7 App Catalog Now

You Can’t Remove/Replace SD Cards in Windows Phone 7?!

Phone Specs



Note: All of the launch models seem to be equipped with 1GHz Snapdragon CPU’s as part of the Chassis 1 requirements, and they also all pack WVGA (480 x 800) screens.

Launches By Country and Carrier



(Big thanks to Engadget and WMPoweruser for compiling much of this data)

Videos

Samsung Focus

LG Quantum

HTC Surround

HTC HD7

Dell Venue Pro