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Acer developing WP7 phones, launching Autumn 2011
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 22 February 2011, 18:20 IST
Bangalore: It seems like Acer is taking its smartphone business very seriously. After announcing the launch of Android based smartphones at the Mobile World Congress, now the world's second largest PC maker is reportedly developing Windows Phone 7 based smartphones, due in Autumn this year.
Back in December, Gianfranco Lanci, CEO, Acer had announced that the company is working on Windows Phone 7 smartphones. The phones are likely to hit the markets by September or October. The news was confirmed by a spokesperson of Acer to Pocket-lint.
The launch of Acer Windows Phone 7 smartphones will mostly happen with the big update of WP7 happening that is codenamed Mango.
With the recent collaboration of Nokia and Microsoft on the former's phones based on the latter's platform, Acer's WP7 phones are set to give tough competition to Nokia's phones, which will most likely see the daylight around the Autumn.
What we are thinking is with Acer delving into too many smartphone platforms (Android, WP7), will it be a case of more the merrier or will it yield no good products in any of the case? We will do the job of waiting and watching.
