Acer says it'll "likely" have one Android phone this year
By Donald Melanson 
posted Apr 22nd 2009 3:23PM
posted Apr 22nd 2009 3:23PM
We've already heard plenty of talk that Acer would be rolling out one or more Android phones this year, but it looks like the company's head of mobile phone products, Aymar de Lencquesaing, has now come out and made the clearest statement yet on the matter, saying that while Acer has "not made any formal announcement of an Android-based device," it is "likely that we'll have one in 2009." No more details beyond that, unfortunately, but there has been some speculation that Acer's first Android phone would be known as the A1, which may or may not be similar to the mysterious C1 touchscreen phone pictured above, and could land as soon as September. In related news, Acer has also reaffirmed its commitment to become one of the top five handset makers by 2012, adding that it would need to sell 20 to 25 million devices a year to meet that goal.
[Via mocoNews.net]
[Via mocoNews.net]
Every handset manufacturer plans to have a Android handset this year lol. All this talk, let's see actual devices (more than the G1) out and available for purchase.
Top five SMARTPHONE makers, not handset makers. 20-25 million phones per year will barely make it to top10 in 2012 if we're talking handsets and not smartphones. Sorry, but there is a huge difference - for a moment I thought Acer was thinking the whole cell phone market would go bankrupt if they thought they could make it to top5 with that kind of numbers.
"Taiwan's Acer Inc., the world's third-largest personal computer vendor by shipments, aims to be among the top five smartphone manufacturers by 2012, a senior executive said Wednesday." - http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=444982