Asus will launch a Windows Phone “when it is the right time”

Speaking to Pocket-lint,  Asus said they were waiting for circumstances to be right to launch a Windows Phone.

"We are very close with Microsoft. When we think it is the right time of course we will do it," Benson Lin, the global head of Asus’ handheld division said at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The company however remains focussed on Android handsets at present, but Lin was pretty familiar with Windows Phone.

"In my pocket, I always carry two competitor products. At the moment I have a HTC Titan and a Galaxy Nexus," he said.

"In the beginning our strategy is to focus and focus and focus," insisted Lin. "When the time comes we will do it," Lin added.

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