Most of the other new Windows Phones slide or transform in some way. Not the Focus. Without extra gadgetry, the focus (get it) is on the screen, and what a screen it is - the same 800-by-480 panel on Samsung's successful Galaxy S phones, a real eye-popper.
With no hardware keyboard, the touch keyboard is important. Each manufacturer is allowed to add a "hub" to Windows Phone 7. The Samsung Focus is well-named - it's focused on the basic Windows Phone 7 experience, without a lot of extra bells and whistles. Windows Phone 7 itself is impressive enough that it might sell this phone alone, and Samsung provides a slim, bright stage for Microsoft to do its work.
The Samsung Focus will be available on November 8 for $199.99 with contract.
There will be five Windows Phone 7 phones available in the United States in November. T-Mobile will offer the HTC HD7 and the Dell Venue Pro. The two other Windows Phone 7 phones offered by AT&T will go on sales weeks later.
The Samsung Focus is one of the best choices of the available Windows Phone 7 launch devices. In Europe the first Windows Phone 7 phones will go on sale on October 21st.
There will possibly also be great deals on Windows Phone 7 phones with new contract from these online phone vendors.