Feeling left far behind from its competitors, Acer as famous notebook company is rumored to have started selling its first smartphone named Acer Allegro, based on Windows Phone OS on the European market . As we know that Acer's competitor like Nokia, Samsung, HTC and LG has been starting to bring Windows Phone OS based on their smartphone available in international market and Europe in particular.

Acer Allegro is a first generation smartphone produced by Acer based on Windows Phone. Acer plans to bring the first Allegro in December 2011, but an online retail sites in France Rue du Commerce has sell it with a price tag of 284.05 euros, or about USD 3.4 million.

We can tell that the price of Acer Allegro is very attractive, when compared with its competitor price of Nokia Lumia 800 to 420 Euros. Acer Allegro has specifications as follows:

• TFT capacitive touchscreen, 
• 16M colors, 
• 8GB of internal memory with an additional micro sd slot that can top up to 32GB, 
• 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, 
• Qualcomm MSM8255 chipset

We hope this will be an advantage for user if the competition of smartphone makes plenty of choices with affordable prices we can get. 

We will not see Windows 8 until its release in Fall 2012, but Samsung is about to give us a peek. The Korea-based company is reportedly developing a new tablet that runs on Windows 8, which is expected to be unveiled next week in time for Microsoft’s BUILD developers’ conference.

Sources say that this new Samsung tablet will be its “first collaboration with Microsoft in its hardware devices.” There are speculations that this Windows 8 tablet may have NVIDIA’s new Kal El quad-core processor and that Samsung may give away these tablets to attendees.

What we know so far about Windows 8 is the new Windows Phone-style interface, which replaces the traditional “Start” menu. The new OS will also be backwards compatible with Windows 7 hardward and software, and is expected to function well in tablets as well as in desktops and laptops.

Samsung’s development of Windows-based hardware is seen as a preparation in the impending Google-Motorola deal. Although Samsung has been heavily dedicated with Android-based devices, the “Googorola deal” is hardly comforting for a company that competes with another Android-totting manufacturer like Motorola. The move is also seen as Samsung’s way to ward off Apple and its patent suing rampage