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The devices announced today ship with Windows Mobile 6.5, which has been a long time coming.

So what is a "Windows Phone" one might ask? "Our lives increasingly have become this complex mash-up of our professional and personal worlds, so we need a better way to connect to the people we care about and an easier way to connect to the information that matters to us," Bach said during his welcome at the Open House.

A Windows phone offers a variety of software and applications including: Mobile versions of Windows Live, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and much more. A redefined e-mail experience which the ability to manage multiple accounts using Outlook Mobile and Exchange Server synchronization.

One of the applications that was announced today at the event was My Phone, which was announced earlier this year at Mobile World Congress (Our first impressions. My phone is a free service that helps people manage, backup, restore, synchronize data between PC's, and share information from their Windows phone directly to Microsoft's secure My Phone servers .

Additional features of the My Phone service is a set of "lost phone" features that are currently free of charge until November 30th, and for $4.99 after. This package allows users to immediately locate the phone's current location on a map (U.S. only), remotely lock a phone, post an "if found" message to its screen, loudly ring the phone even if it's set to vibrate or silent mode, or to remotely completely erase the phone's content.

Here's a list of Windows phone available today or in the coming weeks (country and carrier):

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