Acer is to launch its first smartphones at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month. "Now Acer enters the Smart Handheld market with an exciting range of easy to use devices designed to offer phone capability, simple one hand usability and complete connectivity," according to the company’s exhibitor page on the Mobile World Congress website. The notice suggests that Acer may unveil more than one model and that the phones may use multiple kinds of networks, such as Wi-Fi and mobile.

First Acer smartphone launching in February