Long wait is now over. Acer, a Taiwan based computer manufacturer announced it's first ever range of high end handsets at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This would be their first move into the mobile phone market.

Acer which is a well known brand for computers and laptops has launched eight smart phones. All the smart phones include features like internet access, powerful processing capabilities and good memory storage as well as core phone functionality.

The Chief Executive of Acer, Gianfranco Lanci said, "The smartphone market is a natural direction of our long-term mobile strategy.” He continued, "For a large part of the world population the first opportunity to connect to the Internet will be via mobile computing, either through smartphones or netbooks.

The first Acer models will be called the Tempo DX900, X960, M900 and F900.  The first four touchscreen handsets will operate on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system and connect to the internet through Wi-Fi. It is expected to hit the market in March and it will be released worldwide.

It was then when Acer acquired the Taiwanese handset manufacturer E-Ten showed it's interest to enter the mobile phone market way back last year.

Now it's the rival Dell Company’s turn to try it's hands in mobile world. It was the last week when Dell announced its interest and said it was preparing to launch its own range.