>>The UK?
I googled "first country release windows phone" and got a different answer. ;-)
If it's true then it's a shame: that country has a cozy duopoly that keeps mobile call and data costs far too high, limiting the potential gains from a phone like this.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1