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Acer Aiming For The Top 5; Eight New Phones; And Android "Likely" By The End Of This Year

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Acer is actually looking quite strong this year with their new handsets. The only thing bringing them down is the fact that most of them are running on WinMo 6.1 - which is terrible. Acer mentioned today that they are aiming to be one of the top 5 smartphone vendors by 2012. That's a huge feat for them, but if they make it there I'd be happy for them. Before I talk about Acer's 8 new phones, I should inform you all that they mentioned that it is "likely" that we will see their Android phone by the end of this year and that's great news.

The 8 phones that have been announced for the Singapore market today is the: DX900 ($530 USD), DX650 ($397 USD), X960 ($463 USD), F900, M900, F1, L1, and C1. The DX900, DX650, and X960 are now available for the aforementioned price. The price for the F900 and the M900 have not been mentioned yet, but they are expected in May. The F1, L1, and C1 are also expected this year and one of these could be the so-called Android handset. We've already heard that the Acer A1 could be running Android and that it is expected this September, but Acer didn't mention it today so we'll just have to see what happens. On a side note, I wonder what happened to the Acer E1? Anyways, take a look at some specs below:


DX900
  • 2.8“ WVGA touch screen
  • Samsung SC3 6400 533 MHz Processor
  • 256 MB Flash ROM, 128 MB SDRAM
  • Dual-SIM with SIM 1 supporting HSDPA / UMTS 2100/1900/850 MHz and quad-band GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, and SIM 2 supporting GSM tri-band 900/1800/1900
  • 1.3 megapixel autofocus camera, VGA front camera
  • Wi-Fi, BT 2.0+EDR, GPS
  • Windows Mobile 6.1 Pocket PC Phone edition with Spb Mobile Shell v2.1
DX650
  • Dual-Face design with touchscreen on one side and keypad on the other
  • 2.8“ QVGA touch screen
  • Samsung SC3 6410 533 MHz Processor
  • 256 MB Flash ROM, 128 MB SDRAM
  • 2 megapixel fixed focus camera
  • GPS, Wi-Fi, BT 2.0+EDR
  • Windows Mobile 6.1 with Spb Mobile Shell v2.1
  • Standby time 150h / Talk time: 4h
X960
  • Samsung SC3 6410 533 MHz Processor
  • 256 MB Flash ROM, 128 MB SDRAM
  • High speed HSPA connectivity
  • 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera, 0.3 megapixel front-facing camera
  • Wi-Fi, BT 2.0+EDR, GPS
  • Windows Mobile 6.1, Outlook, Office, widget-based Acer Shell v2.0 UI
F900
  • Samsung SC3 6410 533 MHz Processor
  • 256 MB Flash ROM, 128 MB SDRAM
  • 3.8″ WVGA touch screen
  • GSM/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
  • HSDPA/HSUPA: 2100/1900/850 Mhz
  • 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera
  • Wi-Fi, BT 2.0+EDR, GPS
  • Windows Mobile 6.1, Outlook, Office, widget-based Acer Shell v2.0 UI
M900
  • Physical QWERTY keyboard
  • 3.8“ WVGA touch screen
  • GSM/EDGE: Quad-band GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
  • HSDPA/HSUPA: 2100/1900/850 Mhz
  • Fingerprint reader
  • 5 megapixel auto-focus camera
  • Wi-Fi, BT 2.0+EDR, GPS
  • Windows Mobile 6.1, Outlook, Office, widget-based Acer Shell v2.0 UI


[Boy Genius, Engadget, ZDNet Blogs]



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