Acer A1 Coming In September?
| by Rob Jackson on March 24th, 2009 |
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Last month at Mobile World Congress, Acer introduced their first 4 mobile phones since purchasing phone maker E-Ten Information Systems. To the disappointment of Android Phone fans everywhere, every single one of those phones ran on Windows Mobile. But there is light at the end of the tunnel – according to an artilce on BusinessMirror, an unnamed Acer official made an unofficial statement saying their first Androi Phone, the A1, would launch this September!
The “unnamed” and the “unofficial” bits do bother me a bit, but one would thing Acer is determined to get an Android out this calendar year. Last year the company predicted that handsets would account for 10 percent of the company’s sales by the year 2011 and Android can help them reach that goal. Not to mention those secretly unscecret Acer Roadmap pictures that included 2 super mysteriously unmysterious Android models.
Supposedly the official who made these statements requested to go unnamed because he wasn’t authorized to comment on the matter. Acer Spokesmen Henry Wang declined to comment and Marsha Wang, a Google spokesman in Beijing, declined to comment as well. How about a cough once if it’s true, cough twice if it’s not?
I wonder how many of the LetterNumber combinations we’ll see as identifying names of Android Phones… G1…. A1…. maybe you’ll get a free bottle of Steak Sauce with the purchase of your phone!
1. Gabriel A. Zorrilla wrote on March 24, 2009
Don’t believe it man. It’s almost April and only HTC has launched TWO Android based devices while the rest of the manufacturers have launched a bunch of Win and Sym based phones. This is very disappointing. And let alone gettin something in Argentina… things will take even more time!
2. Acer Android Arriving In ‘09 | Android Phone Fans wrote on April 22, 2009
[...] up on last month’s rumor that an Acer Android phone called the Acer A1 would launch in Septmeber, Acer’s Head of Mobile Phone Products Aymar de Lencquesaing has said, “We have not made [...]
3. Acer Joins OHA, Expects End Of Year Android | Android Phone Fans wrote on June 1, 2009
[...] Acer has issued a press release declaring their membership in the Open Handset Alliance. We already knew Acer was working on Android devices but formally joining the OHA suggests a higher level of [...]