Microsoft Phone 7 Series Phone to be Released by Asus & Microsoft in 2011? [Microsoft Making Its Own Windows Mobile 7 Phone After All? Asus to Help Too]

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How does one refer to a Microsoft handset running Windows Mobile 7? Are we talking about a Windows Phone 7 Series smartphone? Or do we simply call it a Windows Phone 7 Phone until we have a name for it? Call it whatever you will but it looks like Microsoft is interesting in building its own smartphone running its latest mobile OS after all.

The company is rumored to work exclusively with Asus and the phone should be announced at some point in 2011; at the next MWC maybe?

This year we haven’t seen any Zune Phone miraculously appear at MWC 2010 and Microsoft hasn’t announced any other handsets of its own. We know that it’s working on some entry-level Project Pink featurephones which are to be revealed in March or maybe even later. But, as far as everyone knows, Redmond will not launch a Windows Mobile 7 smartphone this year.

Apple has the iPhone and Google has the Nexus One, which is expected to be followed by other Android handsets from the Nexus family, so why shouldn’t Microsoft cook up their own handset?

Ashok Kumar, an analyst that apparently spoke with Microsoft’s suppliers and design partners, says that the Windows Phone 7 Phone (there I said it again and it still sounds weird) will be a candybar touchscreen device ready to run the latest Microsoft mobile OS.

In fact it looks like this phone is already in production but we won’t see it arrive this year. It appears there are some problems with the production itself, maybe some blue screens of death here and there, but everything is still going according to plan.

Microsoft has not confirmed this phone and it might not do it in the near future either. It will be interesting to see how an Asus-made smartphone running Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 will compete against the next-gen iPhone or the upcoming Android devices. Words like “next Apple iPhone killer or Google Android annihilator” have been used although I really don’t know any iPhone killer yet.