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Acer Announces the Upcoming Release of a WM6 Smartphone
Posted by Sean Fallon at 7:15 AM on April 24, 2008
When Acer acquired Glofiish maker E-10 last month, it became obvious that it would only be a matter of time before they leveraged their purchase to develop a phone of their own. Today, Acer President Gianfranco Lanci made their plans clear by announcing that they were, in fact, releasing a WM6 smartphone by the end of this year or possibly early next year.
They also announced that E-10 would ditch their PDA business and focus exclusively on smartphones, with the new Acer release headed for sale through wireless carriers (in opposition to E-10's direct to retail roots). Whether Acer can muscle its way into the crowded mobile phone market remains to be seen—but it is definitely a logical move for a major PC maker at this point. [CNET]
Tags: acer | eten | mobile phones | pcs | smartphones
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jago000
Posted 7:36 AM 24/4/08
I'm offended. I have an X500+ (sporting a VGA screen, GPS, FM Tuner, and tons of other stuff) and its beautiful (sure not iPhone beautiful but beauty is in the eye of the beholder).
Back to the article. I'm pretty sure it's wrong. Eten just announced new pocket pc devices. Secondly, Eten has never done direct to retail (unless you consider selling through sites such as expansys.com direct to retail).
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Kaiser-Machead
Posted 7:31 AM 24/4/08
Just hope it doesn't look like that (I keep reading Goldfish in my head). This thing looks like someone beat an LG Prada with an HTC stick.
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jackfrost132
Posted 9:19 AM 24/4/08
Boo acer, don't develop a WM6 phone, develop an android phone I say! Ok, ok, it's fine, I understand that android won't be around for some time, but I can hope.
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SneakerFiend
Posted 3:21 AM 27/4/08
without a doubt if acer wants to they could make this phone as kick ass as can be.
since they bought a past PDA maker they wont have any issue putting WM6 a less demanding OS than xp or vista into a smartphone.
Hopefully acer comes out hard and makes us proud.
Why cant we see an alienware smartphone. That'd be something i'd pay $400+ for or a voodoo smartphone.
in a perfect world we would've seen that a while back.
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