Acer-branded smartphone (purportedly) still on for 2009
By Darren Murph 
posted Dec 7th 2008 1:27AM
posted Dec 7th 2008 1:27AM
For the third time this year, we're hearing straight from totally unofficial, somewhat sketchy Acer sources that the firm is still planning on producing its own smartphone in 2009. The latest report has company chairman JT Wang stating that the eventual launch may not happen until Q2 2009 (red flag), and he blamed the possible delay on the ongoing negotiations with carriers across the globe. If you'll recall, Acer's been talking up its own phone ever since it took E-Ten Information Systems in under its wings, but many months later, we still have no concrete evidence that anything is going on (mobile wise, at least) behind the firm's doors. We suppose time will tell, but we have serious doubts the hardcore Acer faithful will be holding their breath.[Via Slashgear]
LOL
Well LOLed. Every Acer product I have owned turned out to be utter crap.
First 8x CD Rom 10 years ago stopped reading discs.
Then 16x CD-RW failed half the burns and then stopped ejecting.
Then LCD monitor caught fire.
http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/1013/1130832737303ts1.png
Meh.
Meh, cough, and sneeze were all posted, but YOU got a low rank. Someone here must really hate you.
;-(
Cough.
sneeze
are there really "acer faithful?" and if there are... why? acer makes such crap.
yeah I was going to say, the only people who buy acer are those who can't afford to find a company to be faithful to
yeah...
The only reason to launch a branded phone is if your brand is worth something.
Acer for me doesn't mean what those executives want it to mean.
OH wow, I am not sure that phone I bought is ACER or something,
Oh good NOW I KNOW, because the giant logo is right on the front of the phone.
Another win mo phone, aren't their enough already?
darren,
you have really been working hard this saturday haven't you? i think you are the only one bloggin'
I say the more Google phones there are the better.
Go, Acer!
I don't see where Google is in this..
hehe, yeah that looks aliiiittle like windows mobile to me.
The giveaway is the little logo in the corner.
Wrong article. Nub.
As from the picture above, it is a clone of Etens DX-900, the quadriband dual-SIM VGA phone that was so much heard of, talked about but hardly seen out.
From the company that cannot produce one reasonably well working laptop comes the 'PhoneTypeAcer 3G'
This is great, actually going to deplete competition as it will only lower the standards of reliability for all the other mobile phone companies.
That looks like an HTC-based device. I wonder if the company has something to do with this?
You beat me to it.
Probably E-TEN.
No phone will ever be better than the iphone, whatever other companies do!
Totally agree with oday Nasser . 20 plus "iPhone-killers" have launched n failed miserably . iPhone was introduced to the world in jan of 07 n here we are dec of 08 still looking for the iPhone killer.nothing out there can even come remotely close. The scary thing is it's apples first phone
In sales, maybe, but in actual useable features and hardware expandability, there are plenty of phones out there that do things better than the iPhone. Really, the best thing(s) the iPhone has going for it is its capacitive screen, and Safari browser. You can't even highlight, copy, or paste text on the iPhone.
@aaron
with iPhone apps, the isn't any real competitor with Apple's iPhone, plus the iPhone is good in both software and hardware
Wow, the acer is cool.
http://www.batterygoshop.co.uk/acer