Acer: "We love Windows Phone 8, but..."

After their Windows Telephone 7.5 handset, the Allegro, came onto the scene last year with fiddling fanfare, Acer maintained that they were still committed to Microsoft's Windows Phone platform. But afterward hearing nothing only crickets chirping from Acer's neck of the forest in 2022, many of us are wondering if they have wavered in that commitment. As it turns out, the answer is "yes, but..."

The Taiwanese manufacturer tells TechRadar that while "anybody in our smartphone team would really like to deploy Windows OS," the company has decided to hold off until they determine whether or not information technology makes business organization sense to do so. Allen Burnes, Acer's VP of Smartphones for EMEA said:

"Nosotros are looking at Windows Phone 8, nosotros remember information technology's a great Bone. The integration with Xbox is squeamish, the enterprise suite is nice, but I remember no one knows about it...We've made the determination not to launch a Windows Phone 8 device this twelvemonth. Next year, depending on how we see the growth go this year, we may well do."

Burnes went on to praise Windows Phone 8'south tight integration with its sibling platforms, Windows and Xbox, but said that Acer volition pass on putting out a Windows Phone device in 2022 so they can gauge just how well the OS is fairing in the market. They chalk a big part of their conclusion up to what they perceive as Microsoft's lack of communication about Windows Phone and over-reliance on Nokia to build the brand, despite the bombardment of billboards, commercials and product placement.

Even though they were never a large role player in the Windows Telephone game, information technology is disappointing to run into Acer go the mode of LG, at least for the time beingness. Whatsoever loss of manufacturer confidence, regardless of how small-scale, is a blow to the growth of the product.

The good news is that company's like Huawei run across the value and potential in the Windows Phone and have climbed aboard. They have thrown their chapeau into the emerging market place and economy phone ring with their Arise W1 smartphone and appear to be on the verge of unleashing a powerful, ultra-thin handset dubbed the Arise W2.

Although Nokia currently continues to boss the Windows Phone market (and rightfully so!), we are hopeful that other manufacturers volition gustatory modality enough success to proceed at it, and possibly even inspire others to challenge Nokia's crown.

Source: TechRadar; Thanks for the tip, Muessig!

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