14 DAY TRIAL // Computer maker Acer has just unveiled a few more details on its plans for the smartphone market for the next year. Not to long ago, the company stated that it planned on launching mode devices in 2010, and that the lineup would be more balanced between the operating systems featured by the handsets, and now the company stepped down and states that it plans a number of up to 6 Android-based smartphones for the first half of the next year alone.
“We're still evaluating the second half,” said Roger Yuen, vice president of Acer's smart handheld business in Asia, according to a recent article on PCWorld. However, he also stated that the number of smartphones the company would release under Google's Android operating system in the first half of 2010 should rise to five or six.
The computer maker, as many of you might already know, already launched an Android-based device on the market, namely the Acer Liquid A1, which has been just delivered to the UK market, and which also reached Taiwan on December 10. The phone comes with a Qualcomm 8250 Snapdragon chipset packed inside it, features a 5-megapixel photo snapper, and runs under the 1.6 (Donut) flavor of the Android operating system.
“Acer plans to unveil Android mobile phones for three price levels, top-end, mid and low-end, as well as models aimed at business users and consumers, he said. The executive declined to say when Acer's second Android mobile phone will be available,” PCWorld notes. Most of you might remember that Acer already announced that it intended to deliver affordable phones to the market, in an attempt to become one of the top five handset vendors in the world within the next four or five years.
The Acer Liquid A1 reached the Asian market via carriers already, Far EasTone Telecommunications of Taiwan and CSL in Hong Kong, and is expected to become available via operators in Europe too, starting the first quarter of the next year.