digitimes.com - 12/5/2008
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Despite a bleak economic outlook, Acer remains optimistic about its growth opportunities for 2009. The company expects its notebook shipments to increase 15-20% in 2009 and its overall sales to grow 25-30% on year. Acer is also optimistic about the smartphone market, and despite some internal ...
engadget.com - 12/9/2008
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engadget.com —
These days most people wouldn't think of buying
a new phone without getting a couple hundies off
in exchange for their wireless free will. But netbooks? Internationally such deals aren't altogether uncommon, but we haven't seen one here yet. That ...
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Contract-laden 3G Acer Aspire One hitting US at just $99?
slashgear.com - 12/5/2008
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slashgear.com —
Acer has confirmed it will release its first
self-branded smartphone in Q1 2009. The handset will be
co-developed by Acer’s own original smartphone R&D team and their counterparts from E-Ten, the company acquired by Acer back in September. ...
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Acer smartphone coming Q1 2009
bestbuy.com - 12/8/2008
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bestbuy.com —
From our expanded online assortment; not available in
all Best Buy stores Intel® Atom processor N270 Features
a 533MHz frontside bus, 512KB cache and 1.6GHz processor speed. 1GB PC5300 DDR2 memory For multitasking power, expandable to 2GB. Note: ...
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Acer - Aspire One Netbook with Intel® Atom™ ...
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Acer smartphone coming Q1 2009
SlashGear —
... Acer has confirmed it will release its first self-branded smartphone in Q1 2009. The handset will be co-developed by Acer’s own original smartphone R&D team and their counterparts from E-Ten, the company acquired by Acer back in September. ...
Acer lanzará su primer móvil en 2009
Celularis —
... primero a la zona oeste de Europa y Rusia para luego trasladarse a otros mercados.
El CEO de la compañía, J. T. Wang, cree que el segmento de los smartphones será uno de los de mayor crecimiento para Acer en los próximos 3 a 5 años y empezarán a poner más empleados en esa división.
Todavía no dieron a conocer ningún tipo de información o especificaciones del móvil aunque seguro correrá con Windows Mobile.
Vía SlashGear y DigiTimes ...
Acer-branded smartphone (purportedly) still on for 2009
Engadget —
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 ...
Acer Confirms Smartphones Shippments for Q1 2009
Mobilewhack.com —
... . We have no detailed information regarding specs and prices but we’re eager to see what Acer managed to pull off. via digitimes Tags: ...
Acer still on track for H1 2009 smartphone delivery
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... The Acer brand will apparently forge ahead in smartphone development while E-Ten goes back to its roots in developing real-time stock tracking devices.
With Acer’s own R&D team working alongside E-Ten’s proven engineering workforce, the mobile industry may very well see some significant smartphone offerings from Acer next year. Just how long it will take Acer to actually get their mobile-wares to market, however, is an entirely different story.
[Via: DigiTimes]
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IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... The Acer brand will apparently forge ahead in smartphone development while E-Ten goes back to its roots in developing real-time stock tracking devices.
With Acer’s own R&D team working alongside E-Ten’s proven engineering workforce, the mobile industry may very well see some significant smartphone offerings from Acer next year. Just how long it will take Acer to actually get their mobile-wares to market, however, is an entirely different story.
[Via: DigiTimes]
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Newlaunches.com —
... last September, has made this announcement possible. Acer has been a good stable line of portable computers, the company has strongly held its footing until now, and it's projecting a rather bold 15%-20% increase in sales by the first semester of 2009. Smartphones will represent as much as 10 percent of Acer's revenue in the next few years. No official release date or pricing has been announced yet. The only feature noted for now is that its operating system would be from Microsoft. Source
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A New Way to Say Netbook
us.acer.com 4/8/2009 — Born as a niche phenomenon, the netbook has been dispersed throughout the world, and with Gartner reviews estimating an increase in sales for 2009 that will mean 21 million units distributed sold at a global level (with a more cautious prediction 8 ...
Acer considering launch of non-Atom nettop in early 2009
digitimes.com 11/10/2008 — Yen Ting Chen, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Monday 10 November 2008] Acer is planning to launch a low-power and low-cost 1-liter nettop at the beginning of 2009, according to sources at OEM providers. Since Acer expects Aspire one netbook ...
Acer To Challenge Asus For Superiority In The Netbook Market
geekwithlaptop.com 4/9/2009 — Asustek might have been the first company to produce a so called Netbook but Acer are now going all out to become the more superior company in the Netbook and Nettop industry.
Netbooks are basically low cost computers that are ultraportable and which provide access to the Internet for web ...
Acer DX900 - rebranded E-Ten handset
unwiredview.com 2/3/2009 — Acer is still probably keeping most of it’s newly developed “…exciting range of easy to use devices Smart Handheld devices…” under wraps, in the hope that nothing will leak and ruin the surprise on Feb 16th . But some things are starting to leak out ...
Acer AX3200 Desktop PC and P244W 1080p LCD display now available
slashgear.com 10/14/2008 — Acer is bringing HD compatible products to the masses with two very affordable products released today. The Acer AX3200 Desktop PC and the P244W 1080p LCD display offer top performance and high quality in sleek and stylish packages.
The AX3200 ...
10-inch Acer Aspire One officially launches
slashgear.com 1/23/2009 — Acer have officially announced the 10-inch Aspire One netbook, complete with a WSVGA 1024 x 600 LED-backlit display, standard WiFi b/g and Bluetooth, and up to 2GB of RAM. As with its 8.9-inch predecessor, the new Aspire One uses an Intel Atom CPU, ...
Tiger Direct Cyber Monday Deals revealed —
I4U News 12/1/2008
Tiger Direct just emailed us their Cyber Monday 2008 deal line-up. The top Cyber Monday deal from Tiger Direct is on a Acer Laptop Bundle for $399.99.
The deal features the Acer Aspire AS5315-2698 Laptop with Intel Celeron 560 2.13GHz, 802.11b/g ...
Staple Cyber Monday Deals promise to be Madness —
I4U News 12/1/2008
Office supplier Staples joins the Cyber Monday Sales Bonanza and calls their sale Cyber Monday Madness. A closer look at their deals does not make me mad, but there some decent deals to be found.
Acer LCD monitors sell as low as $119.99 and the ...
Acer Ships 22-inch DisplayLink LCD —
I4U News 12/8/2008
Acer has announced a new LCD that integrates DisplayLink connectivity. The display is called the B223 and requires only a USB port to connect to the host PC. Resolution for the LCD is 1680x1050 and offers integrated USB ports for connecting ...
Acer Holds Top Spot in Netbook Market —
I4U News 12/9/2008
The netbook is both a blessing and a curse for the computer industry and the CPU industry. Its a blessing because in the tough economy right now the netbook is helping to keep the PC market afloat. The netbook is a curse because they machines sell ...
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