Acer To Market Windows Mobile Smartphone By End of 2008
The announce comes with not much surprise. After last month acquisition of E-Ten, known for the Glofiish line of Windows Mobile devices . Acer’s confirm it will jump into the Smartphone market before by year end (possible for holiday shopping season).
“Smartphones will represent as much as 10 percent of Acer’s revenue in the next few years”, said Gianfranco Lanci, president of Acer, at the company’s first quarter investors’ conference in Taipei. That is a big commitment to the mobile space from the world’s third-largest PC vendor, owns several brands now, including Gateway of the U.S. and Packard Bell in Europe.
Lanci said any smartphone launched by the company could enter the market under any of the brands it owns. So expect to see the new Smartphone with different brands.
[Source Washington Post]
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