Acer jumped headfirst into the mobile phone market this year, mostly relying on the tried and true PocketPC. They are readying themselves for year two and are promising a balanced WinMo / Android mix. This week marks the launch of their first attempt at an Android phone – the Acer Liquid. The Acer Liquid runs Android 1.6 Donut on a Snapdragon CPU (clocked at 768MHz) with a WVGA touchscreen and a ... Read More

The Liquid A1 is Acer’s own hot Android smartphone and it looks like the phone will be available to the masses this month. The smartphone will be available in the UK for around $481 before taxes. The phone will offer you a 3.5-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen, a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, HSDPA connectivity, WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, a 5-megapixel camera, GPS and Android 1.6. There’s no specific availability date so far and there’s ... Read More

Alright, so somehow this slipped under our radar for a few days, but no matter…here it is. Acer has announced a new touch screen-based phone lineup and device: beTouch and neoTouch. It seems like Acer just can’t get enough touch these days, what with its recently announced Liquid smartie…and now this new line and phone. Both the beTouch line and the neoTouch phone have been “designed to cater for diversified targets ... Read More

Starting all the way back in December of 2008, Acer let it be known that it was working on a self-branded smartphone. Then, this past June, Acer up and joined the Open Handset Alliance and said that it would release its first Android device by Q4 of 2009. Well what do you know. Q4 is here and Acer has actually put its money where its mouth was with the announcement ... Read More

I have to say that Android is making big moves right now. It has fast become one of the most talked about mobile phone OS’ and is finding its way into other products. One of the products that many people have been waiting for Android to turn up in are netbooks. If you have your heart set on the spiffy Acer AOD250-1613 10.1-inch netbook with the dual boot Andorid/Windows XP ... Read More

Acer’s Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphones will apparently have different names than the ones initially announced. In the UK, the names will be changed as follows: Acer F1 will be Acer neoTouch; Acer C1 will be Acer beTouch E100; Acer E1 will be Acer beTouch E101; and Acer L1 will be Acer beTouch E200. According to Clove, the smartphones should hit the UK next week, for prices between €200 (the 3G-less beTouch E101) ... Read More

Online retailer Expansys is now offering the Android powered Acer A1 for pre-order (in German). Back in June, when Acer joined Android's Open Handset Alliance(INFO), it promised that its first Android handsets would be available in Q4 of this year. This move by Expansys seems to suggest that may indeed happen. There are some questions, though. Expansys has the device listed as running on the Android 2.0 platform, which is mislabeled ... Read More

Acer F1, the Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone seen in unofficial photos several times until now, will apparently be among the new Windows phones announced by Microsoft for launch on October 6 around the world. As previously reported, the F1 is a really nice device. Not only that it’s well designed, but it also has some impressive specs, including: 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 3.8 inch touchscreen display with 480 x 800 pixels, ... Read More