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 year-end.
It seems that an inside source from Acer has specifically told the Pocket-lint that Acer will be launching handsets running on Microsoft’s mobile operating system. The fact is that even though Acer mentioned that they were currently working on Android devices only, they would also be working on Windows Phone 7 compatible devices.
Their MWC 2011 offerings did not see any kind of Windows Phone 7 love, apart from the Acer Iconia Tab W500 running on Windows 7 whereas all other devices running on different flavours of Android. What seems to be interesting is that the smartphone announcement might coincide with Microsoft’s Mango update for Windows Phone 7.
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